CSI – Cd. Juarez

Mar 072009
 
 07/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:54 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off
CSI - Cd. Juarez

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Death froze his exhausted face. The attackers lashed or punctured nearly every part of his body. Then they cut off the dead man’s head, wrapped it in a plastic grocery bag and dumped it with his body between two tractor-trailers on a city street. As with most murders in Ciudad Juarez, police found no witnesses, no weapons. Only the battered corpse on the steel coroner’s table carries clues to who he was and how he died. “Every organ speaks,” says Dr. Maria Concepcion Molina, who gently removes packing tape from the head of her third decapitated ….Read More

El Paso City Council To Debate Legalizing Drugs

Jan 132009
 
 13/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 13:44 on 13/01/2009 Comments Off

Last Tuesday Mayor John Cook vetoed a unanimous city council resolution asking the U.S. Government to have a serious discussion about legalizing narcotics. On Tuesday, city council will have an opportunity to overturn the veto. City Councilman Beto O’Rourke put the item back on the agenda. The amendment to have the drug discussion is part of a bigger resolution introduced by the Border Relations Committee. The idea of the resolution was to show support for Mexico during this violent time. However, the committee says once O’Rourke’s amendment was added to the equation everything else in the resolution, like cracking down ….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

Thanks in part to lax US gun laws, Drug cartels possess more firepower, technology

Jun 032008
 
 03/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:05 on 03/06/2008 Comments Off
Thanks in part to lax US gun laws, Drug cartels possess more firepower, technology

Mexican police fighting the drug cartels face an enemy that is better funded, better equipped and better armed. The inequality was never more evident than earlier this year, when several unarmed Juárez police officers were fatally shot on their way home from work. The off-duty officers had no weapons to defend themselves because they had to share handguns with other officers. Their deaths are among an estimated 400 homicides in Juárez this year as drug-trafficking gangs battle for control of the region’s lucrative smuggling corridor. Many of the deadly shootings were what some described as “Juárez-style,” in which cars are ….Read More

Threats follow discovery of decapitated bodies

Jun 032008
 
 03/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 05:46 on 03/06/2008 Comments Off
Threats follow discovery of decapitated bodies

Three headless bodies were found in the Valley of Juárez on Sunday and Monday while worries grew over a new Internet message demanding that prominent Juárez families and business leaders pay a “quota” to a drug cartel for protection. The validity of the message was unknown. It was posted last week supposedly by “La Linea,” as the Juárez drug cartel is also known, on the popular video-sharing site YouTube.com, and shows scrolling text in Spanish set to a narco-corrido (folk song). “You saw what happened to Wily Moya,” stated the message referring to the fatal shooting of a prominent nightclub ….Read More

The Truth behind the Narco Wars in Cd. Juarez

Jun 022008
 
 02/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 21:41 on 02/06/2008 Comments Off
The Truth behind the Narco Wars in Cd. Juarez

Reputed Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, accompanied by an army of sicarios (hit men), strolled into Juárez one day claiming the city’s lucrative smuggling corridor as his own, so the rumor goes. Whether true or not, Juárez and other parts of the Mexican state of Chihuahua this year have become ground zero in a battle over drug-trafficking routes that have been under the control of the Carrillo Fuentes drug organization for more than a decade. The violence, which has included kidnappings, car-to-car shootings on boulevards and victims pelted by machine guns in broad daylight, has left about ….Read More

U.S. soldier to stand trial in Mexico importing firearms

Apr 282008
 
 28/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:27 on 28/04/2008 4 Responses »

U.S. Army Spc. Richard Medina Torres, 25, the Fort Hood soldier who drove into Mexico with two high-power firearms will be put on trial, federal authorities said in a statement released Saturday Medina earlier was charged with smuggling weapons into Mexico, punishable by up to 30 years. The Saturday statement did not mention smuggling, which suggests a judge threw out that charge. Police could not be reached late Saturday for clarification. José Alfredo Fierro, a lawyer in Chihuahua state where Ciudad Juárez is located, said a court generally would be more lenient if the firearms were legally purchased. If Medina ….Read More

U.S. soldier arrested in Mexico with several weapons in car

Apr 242008
 
 24/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:58 on 24/04/2008 Comments Off
U.S. soldier arrested in Mexico with several weapons in car

A teary-eyed American soldier accused of illegally driving guns and ammunition into Mexico said Tuesday he was just looking for a place to park so he could walk into Mexico for breakfast after a long night of driving. Instead, Army Spc. Richard R. Medina Torres steered his 1999 Honda Prelude off Interstate 10, over an international bridge, and into Mexico. “It was just an accident, I didn’t mean to drive over here,” Torres said Tuesday afternoon standing in a hallway of the Mexican federal building where he has been jailed since Monday morning. Torres, an Iraq war veteran who was ….Read More

Cd Juarez Police find another mass grave in residential area

Feb 262008
 
 26/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 21:31 on 26/02/2008 Comments Off

MEXICO CITY— Investigators found parts from at least eight bodies in a series of backyard pits at a house in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Attorney General’s Office did not say how the victims died or who is believed to have buried their remains, but it did note that 3,740 pounds of marijuana were found in the house during a Jan. 25 raid. Ciudad Juarez is home to the Juarez drug cartel. Mexican cartels frequently use “safe houses” in border cities to store drugs, house gunmen and dispose of slain rivals’ remains. ….Read More

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