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.

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

Mexico captures 11 hit men from powerful Sinaloa drug cartel

Jan 222008
 
 22/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 21:22 on 22/01/2008 Comments Off
Mexico captures 11 hit men from powerful Sinaloa drug cartel

“Yes, the cartel is operating here in Mexico City,” said Edgar Millan, top commander of Mexico’s national federal police, at a news conference following pre-dawn raids on two houses in southern Mexico City. Eight men were arrested in one raid and three in the other.

Arrested `Drug Queen’ Enthralls Mexico

Oct 042007
 
 04/10/2007  Posted by PMC at 23:20 on 04/10/2007 3 Responses »
Arrested `Drug Queen' Enthralls Mexico

Blessed with charm and good looks, Sandra Avila Beltran is enthralling Mexico. Not as a beauty queen, but as an alleged drug lord, and the story of her arrest and possible extradition to the U.S. is being followed more closely than a telenovela.Police say the raven-haired 46-year-old spent more than a decade working her way to the top echelons of Mexico’s male-dominated drug trade, uniting Colombian and Mexican gangs, and seducing several notorious kingpins. Dubbed the “Queen of the Pacific,” she even has her own song — a “narcocorrido” folk ballad about drug traffickers by Los Tucanes de Tijuana that ….Read More

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