Did you survive ROADCHECK 2011?

Jun 102011
 
 10/06/2011  Posted by PMC at 06:09 on 10/06/2011 1 Response »
Did you survive ROADCHECK 2011?

Roadcheck 2011 is one for the books for the most part. So, did everyone survive? From Canada to Mexico, there was supposed to be scores of Federal, State and local truck inspectors working round the clock in the annual CVSA 72 hour blitz known as “Roadcheck”, or to some of us, “Vacation Time”. I fall into the former category for the 25th year in a row. I learned my lesson early on. Stay the hell off the roads during this revenue enhancement effort. It helps that my birthday always falls in the middle of the “blitz”. Time to go back ….Read More

Mexico’s top cop blames organized crime for killings

May 092008
 
 09/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 22:15 on 09/05/2008 Comments Off

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top security official blamed organized crime for the brazen killing of an acting federal police chief, saying today his death shows a nationwide crackdown is hurting gangs. Public Safety Secretary General Garcia Luna said authorities would not be deterred by an onslaught of attacks against police as he presided over the funeral of Edgar Gomez Millan and two other federal officers killed this week. Millan, 41, was shot 10 times early Thursday by gunmen who waited for him inside the courtyard of his Mexico City apartment complex. His two bodyguards were wounded. The two other officers ….Read More

President Calderon promises to stop lawlessness on the border

Jan 122008
 
 12/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 22:07 on 12/01/2008 Comments Off

NUEVO LAREDO – The federal government is taking no chances on seeing a recurrence of the drug-fueled violence that once plagued this major land port, sending additional military troops and federal police to the area. After the deadly confrontation earlier this week among police, soldiers and para-military criminal squads in the Rio Bravo Valley cities of Río Bravo and Reynosa, federal authorities dispatched an unspecified number of extra soldiers and federal agents to cities all along the Tamaulipas-Texas border, including Matamoros, across from Brownsville; Reynosa, near McAllen; Río Bravo, across from Donna; Miguel Alemán, across from Roma; and Nuevo Laredo.

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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