Mexican Federal Police in shootout with local cops in Torreon Coahuila

Sep 092008
 
 09/09/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:07 on 09/09/2008 1 Response »
Mexican Federal Police in shootout with local cops in Torreon Coahuila

Federal police opened fire on municipal cops in the northern city of Torreón early Monday, killing at least one and arresting about 30, said the city’s mayor. Mexican news reports characterized the pre-dawn altercation as a firefight between federal and local police officers. Federal authorities had no immediate comment. The incident began when federal police detained two Torreón officers and 28 city patrol vehicles responded to a call for backup, said Mayor José Ángel Pérez by phone Monday afternoon. “It appears (the arrested officers) were discovered mixed up in a problem with a truck that was in an irregular situation,” ….Read More

Mexico’s besieged police put to the test

May 172008
 
 17/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 00:38 on 17/05/2008 Comments Off
Mexico's besieged police put to the test

Calderon vows to press war on cartels despite the body count MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s security forces have been swept into the eye of the storm since President Felipe Calderon decided to get tough on the country’s drug-smuggling gangs. Once-untouchable federal officials have been assassinated in the streets. Out-gunned soldiers and police have battled gangsters armed with grenades and bazookas. Local police chiefs have resigned, a few fleeing to the United States for safety. Hundreds of police and soldiers have been sent early to their graves. Amid a fierce counteroffensive by the drug cartels, the question becomes: How long can, ….Read More

Feds get tough; Officers, army set up checkpoints throughout city

May 192007
 
 19/05/2007  Posted by PMC at 12:31 on 19/05/2007 Comments Off

NUEVO LAREDO — In a much-needed show of force, agents with the Agencia Federal de Investigaciones (AFI, similar to the FBI) and federal highway police set up a checkpoint Friday on the Bulevar Ribereño for vehicles headed to the Juárez-Lincoln International Bridge.Every vehicle was stopped and searched. It was a welcome sight for many Nuevo Laredoans as well as city and state leaders, a day after there was a report of a gun battle Thursday that left one man dead in Los Torres subdivision. The body was removed before police could arrive. Tamaulipas Gov. Eugenio Hernández Flores, in Monterrey to ….Read More

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