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.

CBP officers seize $1.8 million in drugs

Feb 202008
 
 20/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:57 on 20/02/2008 Comments Off
CBP officers seize $1.8 million in drugs

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 ….Read More

Mexico Crackdown – Federal forces in control of border

Jan 232008
 
 23/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 10:00 on 23/01/2008 Comments Off
Mexico Crackdown - Federal forces in control of border

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.”

Singer shot to death after surgery in Matamoros ER

Dec 042007
 
 04/12/2007  Posted by PMC at 07:35 on 04/12/2007 Comments Off
Singer shot to death after surgery in Matamoros ER

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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