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Canadian Cross Border Trucker charged with vehicular homicide in fatal rollover

Aug 282008

28/08/2008 Posted by PMC at 16:09 on 28/08/2008 2 Responses »

Canadian Cross Border Trucker charged with vehicular homicide in fatal rollover

45-year-old Chi Kong Chow is being held in the Hamilton County Jail after causing a crash on Fort Washington Way that injured two sisters and killed another on Wednesday night. Police say Chow may have been speeding when he lost control of his truck and it tipped over onto the SUV, containing 52-year-old Rhonda Gandy, 52-year-old Rhenda Driver and 57-year-old Susan Struwe. Struwe and Driver were injured and Gandy was killed. Chow and his passenger had minor injuries. Wong is from Canada and is being held on $20,000 bond.

Lax US Gun Laws arm Mexican Cartels and contribute to the violence

Aug 272008

27/08/2008 Posted by PMC at 13:42 on 27/08/2008 Comments Off

A push by U.S. and Mexican authorities to combat the high-powered arms trafficking that fuels Mexico’s bloody drug war is putting increasing numbers of suspected drug smugglers in court. Prosecutions for federal gun law violations are on pace to reach a 20-year high in South Texas as federal agents work to stem the “iron river of guns” that officials estimate supply 90 percent of the weapons used by the cartels. The push is stretching the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ 135 agents along the 2,000-mile border who are tasked with monitoring some 6,700 licensed gun dealers. In ….Read More

FMCSA Administrator John Hill rebutts the rants of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa

Aug 252008

25/08/2008 Posted by PMC at 10:12 on 25/08/2008 Comments Off

We all know the controversial Mexican Cross Border Program was extended for two more years on August 8, under Federal guidelines concerning Pilot Programs, and as we reported, Jimmy Hoffa immediately showed his no class ignorance by continuing his boring mantra about those unsafe, dangerous and illegal Mexican trucks, a notion we have continually disproved on this site.

Nuevo Laredo Municipal Police detained while helping pregnant US citizen

Aug 222008

22/08/2008 Posted by PMC at 12:31 on 22/08/2008 1 Response »

Nuevo Laredo Municipal Police detained while helping pregnant US citizen

Eight Policemen of the Directorate of Public Safety, (Policia Municipal) were detained last night by US Customs Agents, after giving assistance to an American Citizen who was about to give birth in Nuevo Laredo. Shortly before 2000 hours last night, officers assigned to patrol unit SC-111 were on routine patrol in the central business district when they observed and American citizen calling for help. Santa Villegas, 20, was sitting in one of the benches of the Plaza Juarez in the first stages of delivering a baby.

Mexican Army patrol confiscates 1 ton of Marijuana near Miguel Aleman

Aug 222008

22/08/2008 Posted by PMC at 11:15 on 22/08/2008 Comments Off

Mexican Army patrol confiscates 1 ton of Marijuana near Miguel Aleman

Tuesday, the 75th Infantry Battalion was on patrol between Los Angeles and Miguel Aleman, . They found a 1991 Black Ford Grand Marquis with Minnesota plates, containing 31 packages of what appeared to be marijuana wrapped in brown tape and plastic. While searching for the owner of the vehicles, soldiers discovered 160 more packages, wrapped in the same manner and containing marijuana, but could not locate the owner of the car. Both the vehicle and the contraband were seized and turned over to agents of the Federal Attorney Generals Office. The weight of the seizure totaled of 909 kilograms with ….Read More

Former President Vicente Fox – Champion of Democratic Values

Aug 222008

22/08/2008 Posted by PMC at 00:58 on 22/08/2008 3 Responses »

SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico – Eighteen months after leaving office, former President Vicente Fox is taking a page from Jimmy Carter’s playbook and engineering his legacy as a champion of democratic values and government transparency at home and abroad. In a wide-ranging interview at his ranch near historic Guanajuato, Fox discussed his new projects and chided the United States for abdicating its role as global leader, questioned presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s position on free trade and dismissed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as “a loudmouth.” The United States no longer initiates ambitious projects such as the Marshall Plan that rebuilt ….Read More

[UPDATED}Transportes Los Norteños - Bus company faces more scrutiny after 2 accidents in 2 days

Aug 222008

22/08/2008 Posted by PMC at 00:25 on 22/08/2008 Comments Off

[UPDATED}Transportes Los Norteños - Bus company faces more scrutiny after 2 accidents in 2 days

A troubled Houston bus company at the center of two accidents within two days this week has had faulty buses placed out of service 41 times since 2006 for issues such as bad tires and brake problems, records show. Even so, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Transportes Los Norteños remains in compliance with national transportation statutes. Federal regulators said Thursday, however, that they will review the East End carrier after a harrowing accident in Dallas late Wednesday, the second involving the company in as many days. No one was killed as the driver of a Transportes bus ….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 »

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

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