Three convicted for role in theft of PEMEX product and sale of products in US

Oct 132009
 
 13/10/2009  Posted by PMC at 13:46 on 13/10/2009 Comments Off
Three convicted for role in theft of PEMEX product and sale of products in US

I.C.E. News Release HOUSTON – A criminal information charging three men for their roles in brokering the sale of petroleum products stolen from Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) has been unsealed following the guilty plea of the third defendant on Friday. These convictions were announced by U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson, Southern District of Texas, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The charges resulted from an on-going ICE investigation into the theft of Mexican petroleum products, particularly condensate, and the transportation and sale of the petroleum product to U.S. companies.

Mexicans Hurt in Border Incident Recovering

Sep 252009
 
 25/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 21:01 on 25/09/2009 Comments Off
Mexicans Hurt in Border Incident Recovering

MEXICO CITY – The three Mexicans who were injured when U.S. federal agents opened fire on several vehicles to prevent them from entering the United States illegally are out of danger and have received consular protection, the Foreign Relations Secretariat said. “The Consulate General of Mexico in San Diego is carrying out actions to protect the Mexicans who were affected by the incident” Tuesday afternoon at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the secretariat said in a statement. The border crossing, which links San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, was shut down around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday after the U.S. agents ….Read More

Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

Sep 252009
 
 25/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 18:48 on 25/09/2009 Comments Off
Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city. Police say the men were members of the Sinaloa cartel, a violent gang entrenched in a brutal turf war for control of drug routes to the United States. The men are accused of 45 different executions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city. They were arrested by law enforcement agents during a routine street patrol, according to a statement released Friday by federal police.

Like the Minutemen, Texas Rangers not welcome at the border

Sep 242009
 
 24/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 14:46 on 24/09/2009 Comments Off
Like the Minutemen, Texas Rangers not welcome at the border

McALLEN, Texas — Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas. A couple of shots over their heads from his hunting rifle kept nine of them, all Mexican citizens, in place until Border Patrol agents arrived. “It has really gotten to be pretty spooky,” said Landry, who has run cattle in the area for 29 years. Stories like Landry’s seem to bolster Gov. Rick Perry’s recent decision to send elite ….Read More

Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

Sep 232009
 
 23/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 19:54 on 23/09/2009 Comments Off
Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

EL PASO, Texas – Academics, journalists and officials said at a conference here that the war on drugs has been a failure in both the United States and Mexico, and that the wave of violence has forced many Mexicans to flee their country and silenced journalists. “Organized crime has Mexican society on the border very quiet and on its knees,” Alfredo Corchado, a correspondent in Mexico for the Dallas Morning News, said Monday at the Global Public Policy Forum on the U.S. War on Drugs, being hosted by the University of Texas at El Paso. Luis Astorga, a researcher with ….Read More

Shootout at US-Mexico border and the actors are making excuses

Sep 232009
 
 23/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 19:39 on 23/09/2009 1 Response »
Shootout at US-Mexico border and the actors are making excuses

Three Mexican men were arrested on federal human-trafficking charges on Wednesday, and 75 Mexicans were detained as illegal immigrants, after three vans in which they were riding tried to run through the border station at San Diego on Tuesday afternoon, federal immigration and San Diego police officials said. CBP officers FIRED ACROSS NINE LANES OF TRAFFIC in an attempt to stop the vans at one of the United States busiest land crossing borders that sees and average of 40,000 vehicles a day Two of the people in the van were injured, one critically and one with non life threatening injuries ….Read More

Rio Grande Valley Sheriff’s want nothing to do with 287(g)

Sep 012009
 
 01/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 04:38 on 01/09/2009 Comments Off

“I am considering being a part of it — only on the detention side,” Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said. “I would never do the enforcement. I won’t even help.”

Bus company ordered to pay $5.2 million in bus crash case

Sep 012009
 
 01/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 04:34 on 01/09/2009 Comments Off
Bus company ordered to pay $5.2 million in bus crash case

An Hidalgo County jury has entered a $5.2 million judgment against a Mexican bus company it deemed partially responsible for the 2007 deaths of three Edinburg women, their family’s attorney said Monday. Virginia Salinas, 28, and her 71-year-old grandmother, Irene Garza, died Nov. 10 of that year, when a truck they were riding in collided with a bus operated by Monterrey-based Autobuses Del Noreste. Salinas’ 9-year-old daughter — Veronica — was also killed in the crash. Evidence presented during the week long trial suggested that bus driver Victor Torres overshot a stop sign outside of Los Herreras, N.L. — a ….Read More

Margarita’s on the Border and Homeland Security is Out to Lunch

Sep 012009
 
 01/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 04:10 on 01/09/2009 Comments Off
Margarita’s on the Border and Homeland Security is Out to Lunch

On July 1st, MTO reported on the arrest of Customs and Border Protection officer Margarita Crispin of El Paso and followed up on the story on April 21, 2008 when she entered a guilty plea to the charges against her. Andrew Becker placed this follow up in Mother Jones titled “Will Corruption Cross the Line?” The rumors about Margarita Crispin started soon after her first day as a customs officer in El Paso, Texas. In March 2003, Crispin started working the line at the Paso Del Norte bridge, across from Ciudad Juárez. Nearly one-fifth of all drugs seized coming across ….Read More

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