Arturo Beltran Leyva, Cartel “Boss of Bosses”, killed by Mexican Navy

Dec 182009
 
 18/12/2009  Posted by PMC at 07:22 on 18/12/2009 1 Response »
Arturo Beltran Leyva, Cartel "Boss of Bosses", killed by Mexican Navy

MEXICO CITY — Mexican troops acting on information from U.S. officials took out drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva in an assault that provided a rare victory for President Felipe Calderon but left a power vacuum that could lead to more violence. In a carefully executed attack, heavily armed Mexican marines quietly evacuated an upscale apartment complex in Cuernavaca Wednesday before some 200 troops stormed the building and demanded the surrender of Beltran Leyva, one of the world’s most brutal drug lords. Gunmen fired on the marines who then launched an attack that lasted nearly two hours. Nicknamed the “boss of ….Read More

Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

Sep 252009
 
 25/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 18:48 on 25/09/2009 Comments Off
Mexican Federal Police arrest 5 in drug rehab executions

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city. Police say the men were members of the Sinaloa cartel, a violent gang entrenched in a brutal turf war for control of drug routes to the United States. The men are accused of 45 different executions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city. They were arrested by law enforcement agents during a routine street patrol, according to a statement released Friday by federal police.

Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

Sep 232009
 
 23/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 19:54 on 23/09/2009 Comments Off
Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

EL PASO, Texas – Academics, journalists and officials said at a conference here that the war on drugs has been a failure in both the United States and Mexico, and that the wave of violence has forced many Mexicans to flee their country and silenced journalists. “Organized crime has Mexican society on the border very quiet and on its knees,” Alfredo Corchado, a correspondent in Mexico for the Dallas Morning News, said Monday at the Global Public Policy Forum on the U.S. War on Drugs, being hosted by the University of Texas at El Paso. Luis Astorga, a researcher with ….Read More

Mexico arrests cartel leader in Monterrey

May 192009
 
 19/05/2009  Posted by PMC at 02:07 on 19/05/2009 Comments Off
Mexico arrests cartel leader in Monterrey

Mexican soldiers arrested 13 alleged drug cartel members, including one man who had just arrived on a private plane to take over trafficking operations in the northern city of Monterrey, the Defense Department said. Acting on a tip, soldiers arrested Rodolfo Lopez and several others Monday after they landed at Monterrey’s international airport, the department said in a statement. Several armed men were arrested in the parking lot, where they were waiting to pick Lopez up, it added. The department said Lopez had been chosen to take over trafficking operations for the cartel in the industrial city from Hector Huerta, ….Read More

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

Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra resigns – Bond denied!

Oct 202008
 
 20/10/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:13 on 20/10/2008 1 Response »
Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra resigns - Bond denied!

Starr County commissioners this morning, accepted the resignation submitted by Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra over the weekend County Judge Eloy Vera said said the sheriff’s office would for now be under the command of Chief Deputy Rene Fuentes, who is next in the chain of command. Since Guerra was running unopposed in the Nov. 4 election, he effectively starts a new term as sheriff in January, Vera said. It is not yet known whether he plans to withdraw his candidacy. “At that time the topic will come up again,” Vera said. U.S. Magistrate Dorina Ramos had expressed concerns ….Read More

Mexican Navy intercepts Cocaine smuggling Submarine

Jul 172008
 
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Mexican Navy intercepts Cocaine smuggling Submarine

HUATULCO, Mexico — Mexico’s navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific Coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew. Similar vessels carrying cocaine have been discovered off Colombia and Central America, but navy spokesman Capt. Benjamin Mar said the seizure is a first for Mexico. The 30-foot (10-meter) makeshift submarine was detected heading north about 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the southern state of Oaxaca, Mar said. The green-topped, arrowhead-shaped vessel was intercepted when it surfaced hours later, and the crew was taken into custody without resistance.

Army units seize 3 tons of marijuana in Camargo Tamaulipas

Jun 122008
 
 12/06/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:17 on 12/06/2008 Comments Off
Army units seize 3 tons of marijuana in Camargo Tamaulipas

NUEVO LAREDO (MTNS) Almost 3 tons of marijuana was seized Monday outside the town of Camargo by units of the First Motorized Calvary, on routine patroi. Military units discovered two SUV’s abandoned next to a canal on a ranch close to town and upon investigation, found they contained 276 packages of marijuana wieghing 2,852 kilograms .It appeared the vehicles and their contents had been abandoned and no arrests were made. The drugs and vehicles were truned over to the AFI for further investigation. To date, as part of operations on the border to combat narcotics, the First Motorized Calvary stationed ….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

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