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Big Rig Turns Into Clown Car

Mar 072009

07/03/2009 Posted by PMC at 10:06 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off

The Border Patrol says they found 25 illegal immigrants hiding inside a pair of semi trucks. About 10:30 p.m. on Thursday night, Border Patrol agents chased a group of suspected illegal immigrants into a parking lot at the Golden Acorn Casino. Officials said the group got into a cargo trailer via a trap door under the truck. Eventually, 17 people were found inside the trailer, officials said. While conducting surveillance of the parking lot, agents said, eight other illegal immigrants got into the cab a second truck. Both vehicles were stopped just before midnight as they left the parking lot. ….Read More

CSI – Cd. Juarez

Mar 072009

07/03/2009 Posted by PMC at 08:54 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Death froze his exhausted face. The attackers lashed or punctured nearly every part of his body. Then they cut off the dead man’s head, wrapped it in a plastic grocery bag and dumped it with his body between two tractor-trailers on a city street. As with most murders in Ciudad Juarez, police found no witnesses, no weapons. Only the battered corpse on the steel coroner’s table carries clues to who he was and how he died. “Every organ speaks,” says Dr. Maria Concepcion Molina, who gently removes packing tape from the head of her third decapitated ….Read More

El Paso club owner arrested: Owner of Studio 69 accused of drug trafficking

Mar 072009

07/03/2009 Posted by PMC at 08:32 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off

EL PASO — The co-owner of a popular Downtown El Paso nightclub was arrested Friday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who believe he is involved in an international drug-trafficking ring. Javier Daniel Guerrero, 30, one of two owners of Studio 69, 522 San Francisco, was arrested Friday morning on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said. Julio M. Velez, acting special agent in charge of ICE, said, “This type of criminal organization not only poisons our communities with drugs. They threaten public safety, and keep their suppliers — ….Read More

Mexican Troops number 3,000 arrive in Cd. Juarez

Mar 032009

03/03/2009 Posted by PMC at 04:57 on 03/03/2009 Comments Off

Mexican Troops number 3,000 arrive in Cd. Juarez

More than 3,000 Mexican troops arrived during the weekend in Juárez as part of what authorities have described as a frontal assault on crime in the coming weeks. The new soldiers, which are in addition to the 2,000 already assigned to Joint Operation Chihuahua, were deployed after a meeting last week among high-level Mexican government officials in Juárez. More troops, including intelligence units, are expected to arrive in the next few days, said Enrique Torres, a spokesman for Joint Operation Chihuahua, which began a year ago in the federal government’s battle against drug cartels and rising crime. On Sunday, ….Read More

Ramos and Compean Released from Prison

Feb 172009

17/02/2009 Posted by PMC at 11:58 on 17/02/2009 Comments Off

Former U.S. border patrol agents and now convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were released from prison Tuesday, but will remain in a community confinement program until March 20, U.S. Bureau of Prison officials said. The two agents had been in prison since 2007. President George W. Bush commuted their sentences before he left office. Traci Billingsley, bureau of prisons spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the two men are out of prison and under the “supervision of the community corrections office for a period of community confinement.” Community confinement means the sentenced person has to spend the last phrase of ….Read More

It’s harvest time in Mexico and Ultralight flights are the new method to haul drugs

Feb 172009

17/02/2009 Posted by PMC at 08:16 on 17/02/2009 Comments Off

It's harvest time in Mexico and Ultralight flights are the new method to haul drugs

Craft can evade radar along border, feds say NOGALES, Ariz. – On Oct. 10, Jesus Iriarte hauled a load of pot from Sonora across the U.S. border. The Mexican national was like hundreds of other drug couriers except for one important distinction: He transported the marijuana by strapping it to a motorized hang glider, something that looks like a lawn mower in the sky. Federal customs agents say radar-dodging ultralights may be an emerging trend among drug smugglers looking for new ways to outwit increased surveillance. But the planes aren’t the safest strategy. In the past four months, three of ….Read More

The fallacy of Mexico as a failing state

Feb 012009

01/02/2009 Posted by PMC at 23:34 on 01/02/2009 Comments Off

Yann Kerevel writes at Allterdestiny; f anyone has been following headline’s in the U.S. press about Mexico in the last month or two, you might have noticed a lot of alarmist and sensationalist garbage being thrown around suggesting that Mexico is coming close to collapse, is a “failed state” or a “narco state.” Fox news has been spreading this message, along with a number of political commentators on the Sunday morning talk shows, and even Rolling Stone. The violence in Mexico is worrying, and cause for concern, but the rhetoric seems to lead the uninformed to think Mexico is more ….Read More

Detained Mexican beauty queen Laura Zuniga, released from custody

Jan 312009

31/01/2009 Posted by PMC at 08:21 on 31/01/2009 5 Responses »

Prosecutors ruled Friday that a Mexican beauty queen be released from house arrest after investigations in a drug and weapons case turned up no evidence against her. Laura Zuniga, 23, was detained in western Mexico on Dec. 23, in a vehicle along with seven men, some of them suspected drug traffickers. Authorities found a large stash of weapons, ammunition and $45,000 with them inside a vehicle. She was stripped of one of her crowns — the title she won in the Hispanoamerican Queen pageant in October — but still holds the beauty title of the northern state of Sinaloa, long ….Read More

DHS Chief Napolitano – “U.S. to crack down on gun smuggling”

Jan 302009

30/01/2009 Posted by PMC at 23:07 on 30/01/2009 Comments Off

DHS Chief Napolitano - "U.S. to crack down on gun smuggling"

It’s about damned time! The country’s new homeland security chief said Friday that the Obama administration is mapping out a crackdown on the flow of firearms smuggled to Mexico’s murderous drug gangs operating along the Texas border. Janet Napolitano said she had directed the Customs and Border Protection service “to find guns going south and interdict them.” Additionally, the homeland security secretary said she will give Mexican authorities access to a government database to trace the U.S. origin of seized weapons. U.S. and Mexican officials have been investigating organizations in Houston and elsewhere believed to have smuggled large numbers of ….Read More

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