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Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra resigns – Bond denied!

Oct 202008

20/10/2008 Posted by PMC at 09:13 on 20/10/2008 1 Response »

Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra resigns - Bond denied!

Starr County commissioners this morning, accepted the resignation submitted by Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra over the weekend County Judge Eloy Vera said said the sheriff’s office would for now be under the command of Chief Deputy Rene Fuentes, who is next in the chain of command. Since Guerra was running unopposed in the Nov. 4 election, he effectively starts a new term as sheriff in January, Vera said. It is not yet known whether he plans to withdraw his candidacy. “At that time the topic will come up again,” Vera said. U.S. Magistrate Dorina Ramos had expressed concerns ….Read More

Murder in the Desert – Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett faces new trial

Oct 192008

19/10/2008 Posted by PMC at 12:49 on 19/10/2008 8 Responses »

Murder in the Desert - Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett faces new trial

Add the name Nicholas Corbett to the rogues gallery of Border Patril agents who think because they were a badge, the are above the law. Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are two others who come to mind. This week federal prosecutors will open a murder trial against an Arizona border agent. But for many people, the case also will put on trial the nation’s border security strategy. The retrial of U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett in Tucson is inflaming the divided passions about immigration and border security. Corbett’s defenders say the case is about a man defending himself against ….Read More

South Texas deputies authorized to fire into Mexico

Oct 172008

17/10/2008 Posted by PMC at 23:07 on 17/10/2008 1 Response »

South Texas deputies authorized to fire into Mexico

What is without a doubt, the most stupid announcement to be made on the border this century, authorities announced a larger Border Patrol presence and that more heavily armed deputies will be authorized to return fire across the Mexican border. A larger Border Patrol presence? No problems with that. but cowboys with automatic weapons authorized to fire across an international border into a sovereign country? Operation “River Freedom Denial” will target areas along the Rio Grande in the southern tip of Texas where violence has risen lately with more ground and air resources, said Border Patrol sector chief Ronald Vitiello

Deputy Chief Border Patrol agent charged with child rape

Oct 172008

17/10/2008 Posted by PMC at 20:31 on 17/10/2008 Comments Off

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — One of the top U.S. Border Patrol officials responsible for Alaska has been arrested at his home in Washington on child rape charges. The Whatcom County sheriff’s office said deputies arrested Joseph W. Giuliano, the deputy chief patrol agent at the agency’s Blaine sector, on Thursday at his home. Blaine sector covers Alaska, Oregon and Western Washington. The 55-year-old man had been charged Wednesday in Whatcom County Superior Court with raping a 14-year-old girl who was staying in his home. Prosecutors charged him with three counts of third-degree child rape. Giuliano made an initial court appearance Thursday ….Read More

U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector indicted for smuggling

Oct 072008

07/10/2008 Posted by PMC at 10:37 on 07/10/2008 Comments Off

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry has been indicted in San Antonio for trying to smuggle marijuana and cocaine through a Border Patrol checkpoint north of Del Rio. Alex Moses Jr., 28, was indicted Wednesday on one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute it and with one count of importation of cocaine. According to a probable cause affidavit on file in the U.S. District Clerk’s Office here, Moses was arrested at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 277 about 30 miles north of Del Rio on Sunday, ….Read More

Mexican First Calvary Regiment – Another drug seizure and more in Miguel Aleman

Sep 292008

29/09/2008 Posted by PMC at 15:59 on 29/09/2008 Comments Off

Mexican First Calvary Regiment - Another drug seizure and more in Miguel Aleman

Soldiers attached to the First Mechanized Calvary Regimen enjoyed another successful operation in the border town of Miguel Aleman Tamaulipas. On Saturday, a patrol searching a residence at 450 Huizache in the Colonia Rio Mezquital, They found two people bound and gagged who had apparently been kidnapped. These people were identified as Luis Octavio Garcia Estrada, 30, a native of Miguel Aleman, and Eduardo Cruz Flores Flores, 18, a native of Monterrey NL. Additionally, they discovered 45 packages of various sizes and forms,containing 477 kilos of marijuana and 9 packages of cocaine weighing 9 kilos.

Border News Shorts – Dope Falls from 18 wheeler – Border Patrol recruits “Bubbas” in SC and Georgia

Sep 242008

24/09/2008 Posted by PMC at 08:17 on 24/09/2008 Comments Off

Border Patrol recruits “Bubba’s” in South Carolina, Georgia The U.S. Border Patrol brings its hiring blitz South this weekend. The agency recruits in four locations on Saturday in South Carolina and Georgia. Two years ago, President Bush said he wanted to hire 6,000 more Border Patrol agents by the end of 2008. The agency needs to hire more than 800 by Dec. 31 to meet the goal. The agency is responsible for patrolling 7,000 miles of border. Starting pay ranges from $36,000 to $46,000 a year. In South Carolina, recruiting is set in North Charleston at the Embassy Suites at ….Read More

Mexico’s 10 percent plan for guns

Sep 242008

24/09/2008 Posted by PMC at 07:44 on 24/09/2008 Comments Off

“What’s clear, as we have often told many lawmakers in the U.S. Congress, is that the Second Amendment was not designed to arm criminal groups overseas, as is in fact occurring,” Medina said, referring to the amendment in the U.S. Constitution on the right to bear arms.

More wasteful spending – $400 million reallocated to construct border fence

Sep 232008

23/09/2008 Posted by PMC at 12:41 on 23/09/2008 Comments Off

Congress approved a shift of $400 million from technology accounts to construction of the U.S. border fence despite a Customs and Border Protection admission that it cannot be completed by year’s end, officials said Monday. The House Appropriations Subcommittee for Homeland Security agreed to a CBP proposal to transfer funds from other accounts to build the remainder of the 670 miles of border fence. Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, chairman of the Texas Border Coalition, voiced disappointment over Congress’ decision to continue to fund “the border wall.” “It won’t work. It is lethal to people and wildlife and eventually will ….Read More

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