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.
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LAREDO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $1.8 million in cocaine and marijuana in three separate incidents recently, according to a news release from the agency.
The largest seizure occurred Feb. 17, at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge when a drug dog reacted to the odor of narcotics emanating from the rear rocker panel area of a 2007 Toyota Camry.
Officers found nearly 42 pounds of cocaine. A passenger in the car, Darrell Wayne Phillips, 43, of Clewiston, Fla., was arrested. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $1.3 million.
On Feb. 15, at 6:40 p.m. at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge, an officer noticed discrepancies in the rear trunk area of a 1997 Ford Taurus driven by Luisa Valdez Cantu, 20, a resident alien from San Antonio. A drug dog pointed officers to 87 pounds of marijuana behind the rear seat. The marijuana has an estimated street value of $87,000.
On the same day, shortly after noon at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge, a drug dog alerted officers to nearly 13 pounds of cocaine in the engine area of a 1996 Chrysler Town and Country driven by a 22-year-old Mexican citizen. The cocaine has an estimated street valued of $412,000.
Interesting. All four wheelers trying to smuggle the crap! Imagine that! And in other news,
One right wing website reported on February 16, that 85 illegal aliens discovered hidden inside 4 separate tractor trailers making it sound as if the trucks were coming direct from Mexico with their illegal cargo. This method of reporting has become increasingly common as websites continue to try and make Mexico and it’s citizens, scapegoats for all out problems in the US.
What is the truth behind this claim?
The first group of 15 Mexicans was discovered at about 7 p.m. hiding inside the cab’s sleeper compartment. At about 8:30 p.m. a second group of 12 Mexicans and three Guatemalans was also found hiding in a tractor trailer’s sleeper cab. Just before 11 p.m. another tractor trailer was stopped, and 32 illegal aliens were discovered in the locked trailer with no means of escape. The last truck was stopped just a few minutes later, and 20 Mexicans, two Hondurans, and a Salvadoran were found also locked in the trailer. All those discovered inside the trailers appeared to be in good health; they declined medical attention.
Charges are pending against the four truck drivers that attempted to illegally smuggle these individuals. On Tuesday, all four drivers will appear before a federal magistrate to be formally charged.
Quite simply, these were American truckers, driving American rigs trying to make a quick buck on someone else’s misery.
How do I know this? Well, the rigs in question, as of Sunday afternoon, are still sitting in impound at the mm28 interior check station on I-35. (Photos above)
With the security procedures in place at our commercial border crossings, it is virtually impossible to successfully smuggle anything, drugs or humans across without getting caught. This is proven time and again the length of the border.
Drugs and humans come across in 4 wheelers, some successful, others not. They are brought across the border on foot and stored in safe houses until enough is put together for a load and some stupid dumbass American trucker is found looking to make a quick score. And believe me, there are plenty of them out there.
Border walls, border fences, the militarization of the border will not stop this. Perhaps the next President will understand this, ignore the whining of the anti- anything to do with Mexico crowd and give us a sane, logical and workable solution.
Nuevo Laredo Police, disarmed and suspended once again!
Special forces of the Mexican Army and federal agents surrounded municipal police headquarters early Tuesday all along the South Texas-Mexico border, seizing more than 1,000 police officers’ firearms and other equipment and holding an unspecified number at military headquarters.”It was a direct order from the highest level,” said a spokesman for the Army stationed in Nuevo Laredo. “Faith has been lost in the city police working in Tamaulipas.”
Nuevo Laredo Mayor Ramón Garza Barrios said his office was aware of the drastic action to be taken by the federal authorities, and is in complete support of the effort to get rid of corruption along the border.”General DEM Rigoberto García Cortez, garrison commander, had notified us,” the mayor said. “It’s part of the anti-crime operations that (national authorities) have activated in our city.”Nuevo Laredo streets, as well as those in Miguel Alemán, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Reynosa y Matamoros, are now patrolled by heavily armed soldiers, federal agents and state police as every city police officer was relieved of duty until officials can ascertain whether any are involved with drug traffickers.
In Nuevo Laredo, some 500 officers were pulled off the street and disarmed. An untold number are in detention at the Army headquarters.
In 2005, the Army disarmed 600 local police and 40 of them were taken to Mexico City for interrogation at the federal public safety office. Several months later, firearms were returned to a select group of officers who underwent extensive background checks and completed new training designed to clean up the department.
All the weapons seized Tuesday were taken to the garrison in Nuevo Laredo to be checked by ballistics experts to determine whether they had ever been used in drug-related crimes.
In addition to checking the firearms, each officer’s personal documents and backgrounds will be under a microscope. Drug tests were administered to every officer.
The Army spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said every city grants its officers a license to use firearms. The checks will verify whether the weapons being carried by officers match the licenses they were issued.
The actions of the special forces, known by the Spanish acronym of GAFES, alarmed many officers in the six cities that border South Texas.
“They have us (stunned). If they know who to take, then they should fulfill their responsibility,” said one officer, who asked not to be identified. “They have lists. They have been working for some time on gathering intelligence and they know the bad officers.”
In Reynosa, soldiers and federal agents surrounded police headquarters. Some officers said they were afraid because the agents might make mistakes and arrest people who aren’t connected to drug traffickers. The police headquarters in Matamoros also was surrounded by armored vehicles, as agents and soldiers commandeered weapons and began checking identification.
Garza Barrios said that as soon as city police officers pass the inspection, they will be returned to the streets but no time frame has been established for that.
UPDATE: Nuevo Laredo Police back on the job without weapons or vehicles
Nuevo Laredo’s police force is back to its patrolling duties Wednesday but without their firearms, said city spokesman Alberto Rodríguez Wednesday morning.
All they have are night sticks and shields, he said.
El Norte (Monterrey) reported in the early afternoon that the police were being required to remain inside the city’s police station.
In a follow-up phone conversation with Rodríguez this afternoon, he said that the police don’t have access to their patrol vehicles either.
Officers are just doing foot patrols in some part of the city, he said.
No officers have been arrested and they are no longer being required to remain at police headquarters by the military, he said.
The 450-member police force is taking its normal shift changes, he said. It appears many officers remain at police HQ.
“They were just playing soccer right now,” said Rodríguez.
Local authorities ordered drug tests on the officers.
Police do not know when they will be given their weapons or vehicles or normal job descriptions back.
MEXICO CITY — Apart from the police and narco-gangsters, few groups have suffered more in Mexico’s brutal drug wars than the singers whose music often chronicles the carnage.
The latest casualty appears to be Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville.
An assassin put two bullets into Peña after she emerged from emergency surgery for a gunshot wound to the back she received the day before in a motel where she was staying.
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