US Border Patrol agent arrested on bribery charges

Jan 292009
 
 29/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:36 on 29/01/2009 Comments Off
US Border Patrol agent arrested on bribery charges

FBI agents have arrested a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of accepting $39,000 in bribes and using his personal vehicle while in uniform to drive narcotics across the U.S.-Mexico border in his patrol area. Border Patrol Agent Eric Raymond Macias, who was stationed in Deming, turned himself in to FBI agents Friday at their Las Cruces offices, the FBI said. Macias allegedly accepted $39,000 in bribes from a witness who was cooperating with investigators in exchange for helping the person smuggle what the agent believed was marijuana and cocaine through the border, according to records filed in U.S. District Court. ….Read More

Drug-related kidnappings in El Paso hard to pin down but ICE stands by 6

Jan 242009
 
 24/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 10:54 on 24/01/2009 Comments Off
Drug-related kidnappings in El Paso hard to pin down but ICE stands by 6

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency counts six kidnappings last year while the El Paso Police Department contends there were none at all. Three major law enforcement agencies are in disagreement over the number of kidnappings in El Paso last year that were connected to the drug trade and ongoing cartel war in Juarez. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency counts six kidnappings while the El Paso Police Department contends there were none at all. “We have not had one kidnapping related to anything going on in Mexico reported to the El Paso Police Department,” Officer Chris Mears, ….Read More

2 Mexican soldiers stopped on U.S. side

Jan 172009
 
 17/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 17:30 on 17/01/2009 Comments Off

Two Mexican soldiers and a security guard were temporarily detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after crossing into United States on Friday at the Paso del Norte Bridge in Downtown El Paso, a CBP spokesman said. The guard and uniformed soldiers, who were armed, were stopped about 2 p.m. near the foot of the bridge on the U.S. side, said Roger Maier, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection. The type of firearm carried by the soldiers was not immediately available. The three detainees were interviewed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, released without charges and returned ….Read More

El Paso City Council To Debate Legalizing Drugs

Jan 132009
 
 13/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 13:44 on 13/01/2009 Comments Off

Last Tuesday Mayor John Cook vetoed a unanimous city council resolution asking the U.S. Government to have a serious discussion about legalizing narcotics. On Tuesday, city council will have an opportunity to overturn the veto. City Councilman Beto O’Rourke put the item back on the agenda. The amendment to have the drug discussion is part of a bigger resolution introduced by the Border Relations Committee. The idea of the resolution was to show support for Mexico during this violent time. However, the committee says once O’Rourke’s amendment was added to the equation everything else in the resolution, like cracking down ….Read More

ICE officer from Mass. arrested in child-porn case

Jan 122009
 
 12/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 10:08 on 12/01/2009 Comments Off

A federal immigration officer from Hull, Ma. was accused today of having sex with an 11-year-old child while in Brazil to deport immigrants, taking photographs of the act. Michael Clifford, a 44-year-old immigration agent, was arrested today after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of possessing child pornography. He was ordered held without bail pending a hearing Tuesday. If convicted, he faces 15 to 30 years in jail, plus a fine of up to $250,000 and supervised release. A woman at Clifford’s house in Hull declined to comment. Clifford allegedly picked up the child late at night at ….Read More

U.S.-Mexico drug war: We’re clucking like chickens

Jan 112009
 
 11/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 09:11 on 11/01/2009 2 Responses »

By showing true mettle and grit — by standing with staid backbones — Beto O’Rourke and the seven other city representatives sent others running for the proverbial hills, like chickens, Tuesday. Mayor John Cook and U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes couldn’t run fast enough, bwaak, bwaak. It boiled down to simply asking Congress to at least discuss the feasibility of making drug use legal as a way of breaking the backs of drug cartels. At issue is the war zone that is Juárez, and figuring out how to stop the mobster drug lords and their armies, who rule that city of ….Read More

Sanctioned Murder – Nicholas Corbett won’t be tried a third time

Jan 092009
 
 09/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:39 on 09/01/2009 2 Responses »

It’s official: Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett won’t be tried again in an illegal immigrant’s shooting death. U.S. District Court Judge David Bury has granted a prosecution motion to dismiss second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide charges, without prejudice, meaning hey can be refiled if new evidence is developed. Two trials in 2008 ended with jurors deadlocked. The first, 10-2 for conviction, the second 11-1 for acquittal. Bury’s action last month ends criminal proceedings stemming from the Jan. 12, 2007 murder of 22-year-old Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera of Puebla, Mexico, in Cochise County. But Corbett also faces a $7.5 million ….Read More

Laura Zuniga stripped of crown – PGR granted 40 days detention rights by Mexican Judge

Dec 272008
 
 27/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 15:46 on 27/12/2008 Comments Off
Laura Zuniga stripped of crown - PGR granted 40 days detention rights by Mexican Judge

Laura Zuniga, 23, detained on suspicion of drug and weapons violations has been stripped of her crown in the Hispanoamerican Queen pageant, contest organizers said Saturday. Zuniga was stripped of first-place honors for “failure to comply with the regulations of the title she represents,” Bolivia-based pageant organizing company Gloria Promociones said in a statement. She beat more than 19 contestants from Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States to win the title in October. Runner-up Vivian Noronha of Brazil will receive the crown.

Mexican beauty queen arrested in gun-filled truck

Dec 232008
 
 23/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:14 on 23/12/2008 Comments Off
Mexican beauty queen arrested in gun-filled truck

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – A reigning Mexican beauty queen from the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck filled guns and ammunition, police said Tuesday. Miss Sinaloa 2008 Laura Zuniga stared at the ground, with her flowing dark hair concealing her face, as she stood squeezed between seven alleged gunmen lined up before journalists. Soldiers wearing ski masks guarded the 23-year-old model and the suspects. Zuniga was arrested shortly before midnight on Monday at a military checkpoint in Zapopan, just outside the colonial city of Guadalajara, said Jalisco state police director, Francisco Alejandro Solorio. Zuniga ….Read More

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