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

ATF seizes guns bound for Mexico

Aug 192008
 
 19/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:27 on 19/08/2008 1 Response »
ATF seizes guns bound for Mexico

Phoenix’s branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Friday it took 18 automatic weapons bound for Mexico off Arizona streets before they got south of the border. The guns were heading to drug cartels in Mexico from the U.S., said William Newell, special agent in charge, ATF, Phoenix field division. Newell said agents found five of them strapped underneath a truck heading for the border two weeks ago. Then they found 13 more two days later. Agents said a women made a straw purchase of 13 in Phoenix, meaning she lied, saying the guns were ….Read More

Thanks in part to lax US gun laws, Drug cartels possess more firepower, technology

Jun 032008
 
 03/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:05 on 03/06/2008 Comments Off
Thanks in part to lax US gun laws, Drug cartels possess more firepower, technology

Mexican police fighting the drug cartels face an enemy that is better funded, better equipped and better armed. The inequality was never more evident than earlier this year, when several unarmed Juárez police officers were fatally shot on their way home from work. The off-duty officers had no weapons to defend themselves because they had to share handguns with other officers. Their deaths are among an estimated 400 homicides in Juárez this year as drug-trafficking gangs battle for control of the region’s lucrative smuggling corridor. Many of the deadly shootings were what some described as “Juárez-style,” in which cars are ….Read More

The Truth behind the Narco Wars in Cd. Juarez

Jun 022008
 
 02/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 21:41 on 02/06/2008 Comments Off
The Truth behind the Narco Wars in Cd. Juarez

Reputed Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, accompanied by an army of sicarios (hit men), strolled into Juárez one day claiming the city’s lucrative smuggling corridor as his own, so the rumor goes. Whether true or not, Juárez and other parts of the Mexican state of Chihuahua this year have become ground zero in a battle over drug-trafficking routes that have been under the control of the Carrillo Fuentes drug organization for more than a decade. The violence, which has included kidnappings, car-to-car shootings on boulevards and victims pelted by machine guns in broad daylight, has left about ….Read More

Drug war shutters businesses in Tijuana

May 172008
 
 17/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:09 on 17/05/2008 Comments Off
Drug war shutters businesses in Tijuana

Once a freewheeling city that has served Americans cheap tequila since the U.S. prohibition era, Tijuana is at the center of a three-way drug war between rival gangs and Mexico’s military. Drug-related murders are a daily occurrence.

The violence is scaring away tourists who came for everything from prostitutes and dental work to medicine. A lively artistic community is also dwindling.

Phoenix gun dealer sold to Mexican drug cartels

May 062008
 
 06/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 20:26 on 06/05/2008 5 Responses »

PHOENIX—The arrest of a gun shop owner on Tuesday broke up a suspected firearms trafficking operation that supplied violent Mexican drug cartels, authorities said. Agents raided X Calibur Guns and arrested George Iknadosian after undercover agents bought guns at the store indicating they were to be trafficked to Mexico, said Carlos Baixauli, a special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Iknadosian, 46, knowingly sold at least 650 firearms, including high-end semiautomatic pistols and assault-style rifles, to drug cartels, the ATF said. The investigation began 11 months ago after some guns involved in crimes in Mexico ….Read More

One dead in gun battle between Military and Narcos in Cd. Mier

May 022008
 
 02/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 10:46 on 02/05/2008 Comments Off
One dead in gun battle between Military and Narcos in Cd. Mier

NUEVO LAREDO – A gunfight between military forces and alleged drug traffickers that lasted more than an hour in the predawn hours Wednesday left one soldier dead and at least three others injured, authorities confirmed Thursday.An unknown number of traffickers also were killed and injured, authorities said. The assault occurred in Ciudad Mier, about 60 miles east of Nuevo Laredo, at about 1 a.m. Wednesday, said Gen. Rigoberto García Cortés, head of the border military forces headquartered in Nuevo Laredo, at a news conference Thursday. The national Defense Department reported that after the gunfight, soldiers searched two sport utility vehicles ….Read More

Reynosa Police Chief arrested by Federal Authorities

Apr 182008
 
 18/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:27 on 18/04/2008 Comments Off

MONTERREY, Mexico — The chief of police of Reynosa, the city across the Rio Grande from McAllen and Hidalgo, was detained by federal police Thursday, according to Mexican media reports and officials.Statements issued by Reynosa’s city hall said Juan José Muñiz Salinas was detained at 1:20 p.m. by federal police officers. City officials said the arresting officers presumably had a warrant requiring Muñiz to appear before federal authorities, but said they did not know about any charges against him. Mexican news media reported Muñiz was arrested on suspicion of collaborating with the Gulf Cartel, the regionally dominant narcotics smuggling organization. ….Read More

Los Zeta’s Recruiting in Nuevo Laredo ? Not likely!

Apr 162008
 
 16/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:12 on 16/04/2008 13 Responses »
Los Zeta's Recruiting in Nuevo Laredo ? Not likely!

Hitmen tied to Mexico’s Gulf cartel appear to be boldly seeking recruits by posting help-wanted signs in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, including a giant banner hung across a thoroughfare, a federal anti-drug enforcement official said Monday. The banner appeared over the weekend in Nuevo Laredo near the border with Texas: “Operative group ‘The Zetas’ wants you, soldier or ex-soldier. We offer a good salary, food and benefits for your family. Don’t suffer anymore mistreatment and don’t go hungry.” The Zetas is the enforcement arm of the Gulf cartel and is made up of former Mexican soldiers. Photos of ….Read More

 Older Entries

Get Cloud PHP Hosting on CatN