Mexican Army patrol confiscates 1 ton of Marijuana near Miguel Aleman

Aug 222008
 
 22/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 11:15 on 22/08/2008 Comments Off
Mexican Army patrol confiscates 1 ton of Marijuana near Miguel Aleman

Tuesday, the 75th Infantry Battalion was on patrol between Los Angeles and Miguel Aleman, . They found a 1991 Black Ford Grand Marquis with Minnesota plates, containing 31 packages of what appeared to be marijuana wrapped in brown tape and plastic. While searching for the owner of the vehicles, soldiers discovered 160 more packages, wrapped in the same manner and containing marijuana, but could not locate the owner of the car. Both the vehicle and the contraband were seized and turned over to agents of the Federal Attorney Generals Office. The weight of the seizure totaled of 909 kilograms with ….Read More

ATF seizes guns bound for Mexico

Aug 192008
 
 19/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:27 on 19/08/2008 1 Response »
ATF seizes guns bound for Mexico

Phoenix’s branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Friday it took 18 automatic weapons bound for Mexico off Arizona streets before they got south of the border. The guns were heading to drug cartels in Mexico from the U.S., said William Newell, special agent in charge, ATF, Phoenix field division. Newell said agents found five of them strapped underneath a truck heading for the border two weeks ago. Then they found 13 more two days later. Agents said a women made a straw purchase of 13 in Phoenix, meaning she lied, saying the guns were ….Read More

Mexican Federal Police Bust Drugs, Guns in Reynosa House

Aug 122008
 
 12/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:07 on 12/08/2008 2 Responses »
Mexican Federal Police Bust Drugs, Guns in Reynosa House

REYNOSA, Mexico – Federal police in Reynosa made a bust at home and now several hundred pounds of drugs and lots of guns are in their custody. An anonymous tip led authorities to the house. No one was home at the time of the raid. But police did find 10 packages of marijuana and several automatic assault rifles. They also took into custody a Dodge truck with Mexican plates and over 30 bullet holes. No arrests have been made in this case. There is a 95-percent chance those assault rifles in Reynosa were bought in the U.S. That’s according to ….Read More

Mexican Navy intercepts Cocaine smuggling Submarine

Jul 172008
 
 17/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 13:24 on 17/07/2008 Comments Off
Mexican Navy intercepts Cocaine smuggling Submarine

HUATULCO, Mexico — Mexico’s navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific Coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew. Similar vessels carrying cocaine have been discovered off Colombia and Central America, but navy spokesman Capt. Benjamin Mar said the seizure is a first for Mexico. The 30-foot (10-meter) makeshift submarine was detected heading north about 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the southern state of Oaxaca, Mar said. The green-topped, arrowhead-shaped vessel was intercepted when it surfaced hours later, and the crew was taken into custody without resistance.

ICE: No Proof Home Invasion Suspects Part of Mexican Military

Jun 292008
 
 29/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 11:41 on 29/06/2008 1 Response »
ICE: No Proof Home Invasion Suspects Part of Mexican Military

The newest outrage against Mexico going around the blogosphere and on the rabid right wing talk shows and overnight conspiracy fests, is the story of personnel of the Mexican Army being involved in a home invasion and murder in Phoenix Arizona. When I first heard this, I believe it was on Lou Dobbs nightly hatefest, I was incredulous at the stupidity of the report and that anyone with a lick of sense would believe it. Now, KFYI in Phoenix is reporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement is saying, mmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said three suspects arrested in a Monday morning ….Read More

Army units seize 3 tons of marijuana in Camargo Tamaulipas

Jun 122008
 
 12/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:17 on 12/06/2008 Comments Off
Army units seize 3 tons of marijuana in Camargo Tamaulipas

NUEVO LAREDO (MTNS) Almost 3 tons of marijuana was seized Monday outside the town of Camargo by units of the First Motorized Calvary, on routine patroi. Military units discovered two SUV’s abandoned next to a canal on a ranch close to town and upon investigation, found they contained 276 packages of marijuana wieghing 2,852 kilograms .It appeared the vehicles and their contents had been abandoned and no arrests were made. The drugs and vehicles were truned over to the AFI for further investigation. To date, as part of operations on the border to combat narcotics, the First Motorized Calvary stationed ….Read More

Thanks in part to lax US gun laws, Drug cartels possess more firepower, technology

Jun 032008
 
 03/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:05 on 03/06/2008 Comments Off
Thanks in part to lax US gun laws, Drug cartels possess more firepower, technology

Mexican police fighting the drug cartels face an enemy that is better funded, better equipped and better armed. The inequality was never more evident than earlier this year, when several unarmed Juárez police officers were fatally shot on their way home from work. The off-duty officers had no weapons to defend themselves because they had to share handguns with other officers. Their deaths are among an estimated 400 homicides in Juárez this year as drug-trafficking gangs battle for control of the region’s lucrative smuggling corridor. Many of the deadly shootings were what some described as “Juárez-style,” in which cars are ….Read More

Threats follow discovery of decapitated bodies

Jun 032008
 
 03/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 05:46 on 03/06/2008 Comments Off
Threats follow discovery of decapitated bodies

Three headless bodies were found in the Valley of Juárez on Sunday and Monday while worries grew over a new Internet message demanding that prominent Juárez families and business leaders pay a “quota” to a drug cartel for protection. The validity of the message was unknown. It was posted last week supposedly by “La Linea,” as the Juárez drug cartel is also known, on the popular video-sharing site YouTube.com, and shows scrolling text in Spanish set to a narco-corrido (folk song). “You saw what happened to Wily Moya,” stated the message referring to the fatal shooting of a prominent nightclub ….Read More

Mexico rejects conditions on U.S. aid for drug war

Jun 032008
 
 03/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 05:34 on 03/06/2008 Comments Off
Mexico rejects conditions on U.S. aid for drug war

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government warned Monday it would not accept conditions that the U.S. Congress has imposed on an aid package to combat drug trafficking. The Merida Initiative would provide $1.4 billion over several years to help Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and Haiti combat drug trafficking. But the U.S. House and Senate have imposed several conditions on the aid, including guarantees of civilian investigations into human rights abuses by the Mexican military. Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino said the conditions were “counterproductive and profoundly contrary to the object and spirit” of the initiative announced by U.S. ….Read More

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