Oct 21, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) – Mexican soldiers battled gunmen in two cities across the border from Texas on Wednesday, prompting panicked parents to pull children from school and factories to warn workers to stay inside. Assailants in a third city threw a grenade at an army barracks. The U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo warned American ...
Continue ReadingOct 20, 2010 3 Comments ›› Grizz
Associated Press PRAXEDIS G. GUERRERO, Mexico - There's a new police chief in this violent borderland where drug gangs have killed public officials and terrified many citizens into fleeing: a 20-year-old woman who hasn't yet finished her criminology degree. Marisol Valles Garcia was sworn in Wednesday to bring law and order to a township of about 8,500 ...
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KVOA.COM. Oct 20, 2010 12:57 PM NOGALES - CBP officers seized more than 800 pounds of pot in two commercial train cars this weekend. Customs and Border Protection agents were suspicious of a boxcar traveling with a commercial train that entered the United States through the DeConcini Port of Entry on Oct. 15. CBP officials say officers inspected ...
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TUCSON - A border patrol officer who admitted to kicking, punching and striking a Mexican national in Nogales in 2006 was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. Edward C. Moreno, 41, pleaded guilty in June to depriving the civil rights of Mexican national. He was sentenced to 12 months supervised release, four months house arrest, and ...
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Updated: Oct 19, 2010 6:20 PM TUCSON - U.S. Marshals and Tucson Police have caught one of America's most wanted fugitives after 9 years on the run. U.S. Marhshals say Max Montijo-LaMadrid was caught today by Sonora State Investigative Police with the help of Marshals in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Montijo-LaMadrid was wanted for the first-degree murder of Tanee ...
Continue ReadingOct 18, 2010 2 Comments ›› Grizz
KVOA. TUCSON - More than $1.8 million worth of marijuana was seized by Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector this weekend in three separate incidents. Border Patrol agents performed a vehicle stop at the Nogales Station this weekend, and the occupants of the truck bailed out as agents approached to question them, according to a release ...
Continue ReadingOct 17, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico City went for the whole enchilada
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – Mexican officials say gunmen in El Paso's border city of Ciudad Juarez have killed a local official and his son. Rito Grado Serrano was regional president of the community of El Porvenir outside Ciudad Juarez but lived with his family in Ciudad Juarez — one of the cities hardest hit by ...
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Related: Beheadings Hit New Mexico Related: Tijuana Ripped By Beheadings Related: Illegal Immigrant Arrested In Phoenix’s First Cartel-Style Beheading – With Video Trust me, this report ain't bogus. I've seen 'em, I know how they work. You don't get bullsh*t intel with this degree and type of detail, not down here from the cartels. I ...
Continue ReadingOct 15, 2010 4 Comments ›› Grizz
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated her support Friday for ending the brutality and barbarity of Mexico's drug violence, saying it was in the United States' interest to crack down on drug cartels that are behaving more like terrorists and insurgent groups. Clinton told a sold-out meeting ...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A radio station broadcast what it described as a telephone conversation in which a federal lawmaker and one of Mexico's biggest drug lords express support for each other.
Continue ReadingOct 14, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - Investigators are looking into the discovery of what is reported as a decapitated body last week near the Red Rock chapter house in northwestern New Mexico. An FBI spokesman won't confirm details of the crime, saying only that an investigation is continuing. The Gallup Independent, citing "several people near the scene" who had ...
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A forensic expert looks at a bag containing a human head with a written message on it outside the newspaper Frontera in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - A rash of decapitations and other gruesome killings have hit Tijuana since Mexican President Felipe Calderon visited the border city last week and called it a ...
Continue ReadingOct 12, 2010 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CNN: The severed head of the lead Mexican investigator in the Falcon Lake case was delivered Tuesday in a suitcase to the Mexican military, Texas Rep. Aaron Pena told CNN. However, a spokesman for the attorney general of Tamaulipas state in Mexico said he had not heard the report. ??David Michael Hartley went missing September 30. His wife, ...
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - A new study says Mexico's drug traffickers aren't likely to lose much profit if California legalizes marijuana, because residents of America's largest pot-consuming state prefer to grow their own. The study by the nonpartisan RAND Drug Policy Research Center says that means the legalization proposal on the California's November ballot also ...
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CBS News: Mexican news media are reporting that Mexican police officials have identified two persons of interest in connection with the shooting of an American tourist on Falcon Lake, on the U.S.-Mexico border. Tamaulipas State Police Commander Juan Carlos Ballesteros told El Universal newspaper on Saturday that authorities believe Juan Pedro Saldivar-Farias and Jose Manuel Saldivar-Farias killed ...
Continue ReadingOct 10, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - The mayor-elect of a small town near Oaxaca state's Pacific coast has been shot to death, the latest in a string of political figures who have been slain in Mexico this year. Antonio Jimenez Banos, 47, who would have taken office in January in Martires de Tacubaya, was killed Friday afternoon by ...
Continue ReadingOct 9, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
FLORENCE, AZ (AP) - Independent testing of a bloodied shirt backs up the story of a deputy who contends he was shot by drug smugglers in the remote desert, officials said Thursday. The deputy dismissed speculation that he staged the incident to publicize drug and human smuggling. The Pinal County Sheriff's Office said the Arizona Department ...
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Arizona Republic: In recent months, labor organizations representing federal immigration agents have been among the most outspoken challengers of Obama's enforcement campaign. In June, the American Federation of Government Employees' National Council 118, which represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, issued a no-confidence vote for ICE Director John Morton, claiming he is promoting amnesty instead of enforcement ...
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Arizona Republic: NOGALES, Ariz. - A pair of National Guard soldiers, M-16s slung over their shoulders, stand on a hilltop overlooking the Arizona's southern border, using binoculars to search the fence line for intruders. Their supervisor says he and his comrades are proud to protect their homeland, to serve their community, to experience a soldier's duty on ...
Continue ReadingOct 8, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Arizona Republic: MEXICO CITY - When Gustavo Sánchez became mayor in January of Tancítaro, in the heart of Mexico's drug country, he knew the job made him a target of the violent drug cartels that have been targeting elected officials. A tae kwon do instructor, he liked to joke that he had assembled a city council full ...
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Fox News: Authorities in Mexico said they began searching the border lake Wednesday for the body of an American tourist -- almost one week after the man was allegedly shot and killed by Mexican bandits. Ruben Rios, spokesman for Tamaulipas state prosecutors, said the search was suspended at 5 p.m.Wednesday because of bad weather conditions and ...
Continue ReadingOct 7, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Brownsville Herald: UTB-TSC is mourning the death of an 18-year-old freshman who was shot and killed just outside Ciudad Mante in the southern part of Tamaulipas, allegedly by members of Mexican organized crime. University officials said Jonathon William Torres Cazares died on Sept. 30 while traveling to visit family. He is believed to be one of two ...
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