Osvaldo Aldrete Davila sentenced for 2005 smuggling incidentb

Aug 072008
 
 07/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 20:17 on 07/08/2008 2 Responses »
Osvaldo Aldrete Davila sentenced for 2005 smuggling incidentb

EL PASO – Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was sentenced to 9 1/2 years Wednesday for smuggling more than 100 kilos of marijuana in 2005. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone sentenced Aldrete-Davila of Ciudad Juarez as a result of his guilty plea in the 2005 incident Jusdge Cardone ironically, was the Judge who presided at the trial of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean in 2006. Ramos and Compeans 11 and 12 year sentence was upheld last week by the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals which vacated part of the sentence but affirmed the major charges against the two. OF course the ….Read More

FDA destroying business on both sides of border

Jul 142008
 
 14/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 17:23 on 14/07/2008 Comments Off
FDA destroying business on both sides of border

And no closer to a cause for the Salmonella SaintPaul outbreak McALLEN — The Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to target a source for the nationwide salmonella outbreak has effectively shut down Texas border tomato traffic — and that of cilantro, jalapeños, other peppers and other produce — even as tainted ones have yet to be found in Mexico. Industry losses, estimated at $250 million for the initially implicated tomatoes alone, are mounting as the FDA widens its probe. The standstill at the border is spreading through a distribution chain that reaches from the fields of Coahuila, Mexico, to wholesale ….Read More

More Evidence suggests Mexico is not the source of Salmonella outbreak

Jul 122008
 
 12/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 21:09 on 12/07/2008 Comments Off
More Evidence suggests Mexico is not the source of Salmonella outbreak

With the addition of the Mexican state of Coahuila to the list of cleared states on the Center for Disease Controls list of approved retailers, evidence is pointing away from Mexico as a source of the contamination for the recent salmonella outbreak. Mexico is the major source of tomatoes for US consumption during the winter months. Mexico’s agriculture ministry said Friday that a two-week study of Mexican tomatoes by its specialists — conducted in tandem with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — has found the tomato crop to be free of infection. Salmonella Saintpaul is a strain of bacteria ….Read More

Mexican Judge releases suspect in death of Border Patrol Agent

Jun 282008
 
 28/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:34 on 28/06/2008 Comments Off
Mexican Judge releases suspect in death of Border Patrol Agent

Amid fierce U.S. government protests over the release of a suspect in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Mexico yesterday pledged close cooperation with U.S. authorities. But Mexican officials said they have yet to receive a request for his extradition or arrest. Jesús Navarro Montes, who is suspected of drug smuggling, is accused by U.S. authorities of driving a sport utility vehicle over agent Luis Aguilar in January near the U.S.-Mexico border west of Yuma. Navarro was released from a Mexicali prison earlier this month after Judge Laura Serrano Alderete, of the Baja California 12th District, cleared him ….Read More

Border Patrol agent charged with drug counts

Jun 112008
 
 11/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 20:01 on 11/06/2008 Comments Off
Border Patrol agent charged with drug counts

McALLEN, Texas – A U.S. Border Patrol agent was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine for allegedly helping two Mexican men smuggle 11 bricks of cocaine into the United States. Reynaldo Zuniga, a 34-year-old Border Patrol agent from Harlingen, was paid to pick up one of the men along the Rio Grande and then drive him to a fast food restaurant in Hidalgo, where the other man would pick him up, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday. Zuniga, Luis Alfredo Cruz, 29, and Jose Luis Arteaga, 24, were arrested early Saturday morning, said Border Patrol spokesman Ricardo Rosas. All three ….Read More

47th Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group meeting yields positive results

Jun 112008
 
 11/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 14:34 on 11/06/2008 Comments Off
47th Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group meeting yields positive results

SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA, Mexico — U.S. legislators and their Mexican counterparts revived hope of approving a controversial U.S. aid package that would help embattled Mexican police fight narcotics traffickers. U.S. lawmakers originally conditioned the aid package, known as the Mérida Initiative, on safeguarding against human rights violations and corruption. Mexican lawmakers considered this a unilateral imposition of U.S. oversight and said they would reject the aid if changes in the proposal were not made. Lawmakers from both countries said here Sunday that the language of the proposal would be changed to Mexico’s satisfaction. “We’re coming out very pleased,” said ….Read More

UPDATED: San Antonio police find illegals in parked 18-wheeler

May 242008
 
 24/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:33 on 24/05/2008 2 Responses »

Authorities took a Smithway Motor Express driver into custody after several undocumented immigrants were found inside his 18-wheeler parked at a South Side convenience store. Undercover drug officers stumbled upon the 18-wheeler during a drug investigation Tuesday night, when they pulled over a man during drug bust at a Shell Gas Station in the 5800 block of South Pan Am Expressway. As police surrounded the man’s pickup truck, officers heard a noise coming from the nearby 18-wheeler and discovered seven illegal immigrants inside the cab of the truck. A store clerk told investigators, the big rig had been parked at ….Read More

Man loses head pretending to be what he’s not!

May 192008
 
 19/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:04 on 19/05/2008 Comments Off
Man loses head pretending to be what he's not!

Our friend Sean Mattson, Mexico correspondent for the San Antonio Express News, left this interesting tidbit on his blog this morning, concerning the severed head found on a car in Monterrey this past week. Honor amongst thieves perhaps? Who knows, but I got a chuckle out of the thing. Head left on car with warning for wannabe Zetas; reassurance for businessmen Kidnapping a guy, chopping his head off and leaving it on top of a car is sure one heck of a way to send a message. Just in case the point wasn’t clear, the suspected killers of a person ….Read More

The Great Texas TV Truck Race

Mar 172008
 
 17/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:35 on 17/03/2008 2 Responses »

A day after a fatal highway drag racing crash, a pair of local television live trucks were caught on video in their own race at a local drag strip. The El Paso stations, KDBC-TV and KVIA-TV, were at the legal drag racing strip Friday night when a crowd of onlookers apparently convinced a pair of photographers and a part-time anchorman to race. Charlie Bernal, a 25-year-old photographer for KDBC, said he was fired Tuesday after his bosses saw the race on the video sharing Web site YouTube. “I knew what I was doing and figured, if someone gets wind of ….Read More

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