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

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

Sep 032008
 
 03/09/2008  Posted by PMC at 10:41 on 03/09/2008 Comments Off
Cd. Juárez to fire 400 police officers who failed "Confidence Exams"

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 ….Read More

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans protest crime nationwide

Aug 302008
 
 30/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 22:06 on 30/08/2008 Comments Off
Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans protest crime nationwide

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 ….Read More

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

Aug 092008
 
 09/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 15:18 on 09/08/2008 1 Response »
Sherman Texas Bus Crash - Angel Tours Bus should not have been in operation

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 ….Read More

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

Jul 062008
 
 06/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 17:43 on 06/07/2008 Comments Off
US Jet Airline cargo plane crashes in Mexico - Pilot dead, co-pilot critical (Updated 2)

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 ….Read More

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

Jul 052008
 
 05/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 11:08 on 05/07/2008 14 Responses »
Lucano Bus crashes, 2 dead, 10 injured south of Nuevo Laredo

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 ….Read More

UPDATED: 12 people trampled to death in Mexico nightclub raid

Jun 222008
 
 22/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:44 on 22/06/2008 Comments Off
UPDATED: 12 people trampled to death in Mexico nightclub raid

MEXICO CITY (MTN) — A police raid on a crammed Mexico City nightclub turned into a deadly stampede that killed 12 people, including nine youths and three police, officials said. Police entered the New Divine nightclub, where around 1,000 people had gathered to fete the end of the school year, on Friday to break up the illegal sale of alcohol to minors and a stampede ensued, said Joel Ortega, a local security official. “Unfortunately, the person in charge of the nightclub took the microphone and announced a police operation was underway,” Ortega said, adding that his words “sparked a panic.” ….Read More

OOIDA – Good for a laugh on occasion

Jun 022008
 
 02/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:24 on 02/06/2008 4 Responses »
OOIDA - Good for a laugh on occasion

I couldn’t help but break out laughing, or as Stevie Sommers puts it, “chuckle”, listening to OOIDA and LandlineNow on XM-171 last Thursday, I think it was, when they brought up the almost dead subject of the Cross Border Program. I think Mark Reddig was talking with their Washington lobbyist about the status of the program and the comment was made; All of us at OOIDA are working full time to see this program is stopped in it’s tracks! Yep, 10 months into the program, and they’re working full time to stop a program that has been successful beyond even ….Read More

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