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Sep 09

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,” Pérez said. “We don’t know if it was for drugs or why. … We don’t have the official information.”

Pérez said it was unclear why so many patrol vehicles answered the call for help. After the incident, he fired the city’s chief of police for not being able to control the officers.

“There was a confrontation but we don’t know if there was a (shooting) response from our police,” the mayor said.

The federal public security ministry, which oversees the federal police apparently involved in the shooting, provided no information on the incident. A spokeswoman for the federal attorney general’s office said the detained city officers were being held for questioning but no charges were announced.

SOURCES: Sean Mattson San Antonio Express News
El Siglo de Torreon

: Torreon Patrol Unit 35469 containing the body of Torreon Police Officer César Moreno Valero, shot in the chest multiple times

: Federal Officers search Torreon Police vehicles after one officer killed and 5 injured in firefight

: Torreon Police under arrest hide their faces with their shirts while Federal Officers stand guard

: More than 120 Mexican Soldiers and 100 Federal Agents are garrisioned at the Security Institute of the State of Coahuila in Torreon

: This Chvy pickup was the one Torreon Municipal Police were involved with when discovered by Federal officers. More than 28 untis responded to officer assistant calls from the local cops. Notice the Oklahoma tags?

: Wrecked Torreon Coahuila Police cruiser containing body of officer killed in firefight with Federal Police

Sep 03

Cd. Juárez to fire 400 police officers who failed “Confidence Exams”

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A Juarez Police SWAT Team prepares to hit the streets. These officers have been vetted and deemed honest. The Juarez Police admit many of their officers are corrupt and paid off by the cartels.

More than 400 members of the Juárez police department will be dismissed after failing confidence exams done by the Mexico federal Public Safety secretary’s office, Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.

About 2,000 soldiers arrived in Juárez over the weekend and are expected to begin anti-crime patrols as part of Operation Juárez, the new name of Joint Operation Chihuahua, the local federal offensive against organized crime.

“It’s important that citizens know the Mexican army will be doing patrols throughout the city to stop the collateral crimes generated as a result of Joint Operation Chihuahua,” Reyes Ferriz said.

The city police department has offered the military 65 vehicles for the patrols.

The city has recruited about 900 new officers in recent months as authorities have been unable to stop a crime wave this year, including more than 900 homicides, more than 50 bank robberies, a jump in auto thefts and other crimes.

Officials said the confidence exams by federal authorities found that some Juárez officers had criminal histories in other states. Some had been fired from other agencies.

Other officers were found to have been bribed or had ties to organized crime.

Reyes Ferriz said that federal public safety officials made a registry of fingerprints, DNA samples, voice and iris scans of the officers tested to allow federal authorities to track their future activities.

How can this be? In a country, according to Dale “The Trucking Bozo” Sommers and his son Steve and of course Eric “Bubba Bo” Boulanger, that has no DATA BASES to track Mexican Truck Drivers and others? They are compiling a DATABASE of DNA Samples, Voice prints and iris scans, biometrics in other words? Kudos to the Mayor and Federal Officials for their ongoing efforts

: Juarez Police confiscate weapons smuggled in from US in a recent raid.

: Juarez Officers on patrol in utra modern well equipped vehicles

: Municipal police officers look at a knife seized while patrolling in Ciudad Juarez, Mexic

: n Ciudad Juarez’s attempt to clean up the city, a troop of mounted Mexican police patrols its tourist and bar area February 20, 2000. On weekends, six mounted police officers comb the street of Avenida Juarez and the surrounding Red District area in search of drug addicts, intoxicated people and other offenders who, they say, give the city a bad name. The offenders are loaded into a paddy wagon and transported to the municipal jail.

: A bus passes a recruiting billboard for the municipal police that reads in Spanish “Juarez Needs You! Join up and become part of the city police” in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday. After police recruitment fell in the wake of drug cartel’s attacks which killed seven police commanders, government officials erected enormous recruitment billboards.

: Officer Down – Another Juarez Police Officer victim of the drug wars in Cd Juarez

: Juarez Police man checkpoint looking for arms, illegal drugs and DUI offenders

: Mexican army soldiers take away several police agents for further questioning after army personnel arrived at a police station to check for weapons serial numbers and interviews with police officers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

: A municipal police officer, right, watches detainees brought in on drug possession charges enter the police station in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Local police have been given assault rifles and instructed not to patrol the streets alone, after receiving death threats from drug cartels over their own radio frequencies.

: Cd Juarez Police cracking down on delinquency in Centro

: Cd Juarez Transito or Traffic Officers on Patrol

: A Juarez Police SWAT Team prepares to hit the streets. These officers have been vetted and deemed honest. The Juarez Police admit many of their officers are corrupt and paid off by the cartels.

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Aug 30

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans protest crime nationwide

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Demonstrators hold up candles at the main Zocalo square in Mexico City during a protest against the tide of killings, kidnappings and shootouts sweeping the country, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. More than 13 anti-crime groups planned for tens of thousands of people to join marches in all 32 Mexican states Saturday evening, urging people to walk in silence with candles or lanterns.

Hundreds of thousands of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones, marched across the country Saturday to demand government action against a relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts.

The mass candlelight protests were a challenge to the government of President Felipe Calderon, who has made fighting crime a priority and deployed more than 25,000 soldiers and federal police to wrest territory from powerful drug cartels.

Cries of “enough” and “long live Mexico” rose up from sea of white-clad demonstrators filling Mexico City’s enormous Zocalo square. The protesters held candles twinkling in the darkness as they sang the national anthem before dispersing.

“I’ve had enough. Kidnapping, corrupt police, a rotten judicial system,” said Ricardo Robledo, a 43-year-old music producer who said he had been robbed numerous times. “This may begin a change.”

City officials refused to give a crowd estimate, but the Zocalo can hold nearly 100,000 people. Tens of thousands overflowed into the surrounding streets, unable to squeeze into the square. Thousands more protested in cities across the country.

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Aug 09

Sherman Texas Bus Crash – Angel Tours Bus should not have been in operation

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Crews work to move the charter bus off of U.S. Highway 75 near Sherman.

The violations discovered in the bus belonging to Angel Tours that crashed in Sherman Texas Friday morning points to the stupidty and ignorance of a small percentage of people obsessed with ending the Cross Border Pilot Program, which has operated safely for the past 11 months, while ignoring American common carriers who flaunt and ignore the laws and rules thinking it does not apply to them, the bus crash Friday in Sherman Texas that claimed 16 lives is a prime example.

The owner of Angel Tours, 59-year-old Angel de la Torre, should be arrested and detained WITHOUT BAIL and charged with 16 counts of NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE! The idiot bus driver also!

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Jul 06

US Jet Airline cargo plane crashes in Mexico – Pilot dead, co-pilot critical (Updated 2)

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RAMOS ARIZPE,Coahuila, Mexico (MTN) — A plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed Sunday as it was trying to land in northern Mexico, killing the pilot, Lon Macintosh of Middletown Ohio, and severely injuring the co-pilot, Christopher Martin.

The plane crashed before dawn Sunday half a mile (one kilometer) from the runway in Ramos Arizpe, 200 miles (320 kilometers) south of the U.S.-Mexico border, said Segismundo Doguin, the deputy civil defense chief for Coahuila state.

The co-pilot received second- and third-degree burns and was in critical condition at a hospital in the nearby city of Saltillo, Doguin said.

The 1967 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 freighter, Tail Number N-199US, was operated by USA Jet Airlines, based in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Company spokesman Donald McNeff said the crew members were U.S. citizens but declined to identify them by name. Mexican officials gave conflicting versions of the names.
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Jul 05

Lucano Bus crashes, 2 dead, 10 injured south of Nuevo Laredo

By P.M. Corn Mexico Today View Comments

A bus owned by Autobuses Lucano of Dallas Texas, traveling from San Luis Patosi, SLP to Houston Texas crashed 35 miles south of Nuevo Laredo Thursday morning, killing 2, including a pregnant 19 year old woman whose body was found under the bus and injuring 10.

The injured were taken to hospitals in Sabinas Hidalgo NL and Cruz Roja in Nuevo Laredo.

Juan Carlos Flores Sanchez, Commandander of Federal Police Highways, reported initial investigation and interviews with passengers suggested the driver fell asleep at the wheel shortly before the bus left the highway and overturned.

The driver left the scene and a warrant was issued with the Nuevo Leon State Police for his arrest and detention.
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