Showing posts with label Mexican Police. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexican Police. Show all posts

March 28, 2013

Mexican Vigilantes Arrest Police Director

Is Charles Bronson in Mexico?


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Ernesto Gallardo (L), the commander of the Tierra Colorada self-defense group, guards Oscar Ulises Valle (R), Juan R. Escudero Municipal Police commander, as he takes him to the Guerrero state attorney office in Tierra Colorada, Mexico, 27 March 2013. Valle is charged with alleged links to the organized crime.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300381/Vigilantes-seize-town-Mexico-shoot-tourists-commander-killed.html

Thousands of armed vigilantes takeover Mexican town, arrest police and shoot at tourists after 'commander' is killed and dumped in the street
'Community police' arrest former director of security in Tierra Colorado
They allege he took part in killing of their leader, 28, for criminal cartel
State prosecutors agree to investigate official's links to organised crime
Vigilantes have been stopping traffic at checkpoints and searching homes
Tourist injured after vigilantes opened fire because he failed to stop his car
Takeover comes amid growing 'self defence' movement against cartels
By ALEX GORE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 04:16 EST, 28 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:45 EST, 28 March 2013


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[From article]
"We have besieged the municipality, because here criminals operate with impunity in broad daylight, in view of municipal authorities. We have detained the director of public security because he is involved with criminals and he knows who killed our commander," said Bruno Placido Valerio, a spokesman for the vigilante group.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/heavily_armed_vigilantes_take_control_PEV3tRP7BqM6yjfShynguL

Heavily armed vigilantes take control of Mexican town, 'arrest' all of the police
Last Updated: 1:51 PM, March 28, 2013
Posted: 1:48 PM, March 28, 2013
New York Post

January 31, 2012

Mexican Police Arrest Suspect in 75 Homicides

[From article]
"More than 47,000 people have been killed nationwide since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown against drug traffickers in December 2006."

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_19852217

Police in northern Mexico catch suspect in 75 drug cartel killings
By Porfirio Ibarra /
Associated Press
Posted: 01/30/2012 01:24:48 PM MST

January 31, 2011

Courageous Women Police in Mexico

[From article]
"Gandara, a former radio dispatcher, was declared the de facto police chief last summer; after the 10 other cops in town had either quit or been killed. The young woman took her job as chief of 9,000 border residents seriously, going out on patrol every morning with an R-15 rifle and proudly hefting the gun in pictures for local papers.
[. . .]
Her bravado had a cost. Gandara was snatched from her house two days before Christmas — presumably by a drug cartel, although federal police won’t comment — and her kidnappers burned her home before fleeing. Her family hasn’t seen or heard from her since, but two relatives who worked in politics in nearby towns abruptly resigned their positions shortly after she went missing.
[. . .]
In the past four years, there were 34,612 drug-related killings in Mexico, according to government figures
[. . .]
Corruption among Mexican police is so pervasive that some officials want to get rid of local officers and replace them with a single, state-run domestic army.
[. . .]
Last year 14 mayors were murdered and dozens of police departments have been decimated by targeted killings.
[. . .]
Today, Gorrostieta is a widow and single mom — her husband was killed in the first assassination attempt against her in 2009 — and her body is riddled with bullet holes and scars, with a colostomy bag taped to her stomach.
[. . .]
“I still have an inextinguishable determination to continue my mission of heading this administration, as I was elected to do,” she wrote. “I wanted to show you my wounded, mutilated body . . . because I’m not ashamed of it . . . it’s living testimony that I am a strong and righteous woman, and despite my physical and mental wounds, I’m still on my feet.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/las_valientes_of_mexico_6evZuCbSGdllZbKacg3zUN

Maria Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, 34 Mayor, Tiquicheo Survived assassination attempts in 2099 and 2010
masantos.com.mx / Splash
Maria Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, 34 Mayor,
Tiquicheo Survived assassination attempts
in 2099 and 2010.

Las valientes of Mexico
While men fall to drugs and violence, women police chiefs are fighting for their towns
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:49 PM, January 30, 2011
Posted: 10:40 PM, January 29, 2011

November 25, 2010

Mexican Drug Violence Extends to Wealthy Suburbs

Unlike Americans, Mexicans, and Colombians are concerned about police corruption.

[From article]
"increasingly horrific violence spilling into daily life and claiming civilians, while politicians and journalists are either silenced or killed.
[. . .]
The Zetas control the local police, Pascual said. Other police forces aligned with the Gulf cartel in the fight against them.
[. . .]
About half of the 750 police officers in Monterrey have been fired on suspicion of links to organized crime.
[. . .]
In March, two students at the prestigious Monterrey Tech University, Mexico's equivalent of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died when they were caught in a gunfight between soldiers and gunmen outside the campus.
[. . .]
"In Italy, in Colombia, things calmed down among the cartels, among the mafia, when people took to the streets and said, `Enough!'" he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101125/ap_on_re_us/lt_drug_war_mexico_besieged_city

Mexico's modern city succumbs to drug violence
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press
Associated Press writers Mark Walsh in Monterrey and Katherine Corcoran in Mexico City
contributed to this report.
November 25, 2010

October 28, 2010

Mexican Police Department Quits After Attack

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/10/27/2010-10-27_entire_police_force_in_los_ramones_mexico_quits_after_gunmen_attack_headquarters.html

Entire police force in Los Ramones, Mexico quits after gunmen attack headquarters
BY Philip Caulfield
New York DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, October 27th 2010, 8:27 AM

June 14, 2010

10 Police, 28 Inmates Killed in Mexico

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adBkTwbCQHpI

Mexican Gunmen Kill 10 Police as 28 Die in Jail Riot (Update3)
By Jens Erik Gould and Jonathan J. Levin
Bloomberg.com
June 14, 2010

March 27, 2010

Mexican Police Chief Beheaded

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_14767720

Police chief decapitated; brother slain
Denver Post Wire Report
Posted: 03/27/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT

March 24, 2010

Mexican Police Murdered

While Obama corrupts the US Congress, and shows his contempt for the Constitution, Mexico's courageous President fights a life and death battle with drug dealers. After two American diplomats were murdered in Mexico Obama expressed his concern. Obama shows his relaxed rectitude with regard to the will of the people and the welfare of the nation.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/03/22/20100322dismembered-police-officers-mexico.html

Mexican officers dismembered, put in bags
Mar. 22, 2010 05:57 PM
Associated Press

December 17, 2009

Mexican Officials Courageous Unlike Americans


Mexican officials working under their brave President show more courage than American police who focus on low level street dealers. Drug corruption is as pervasive in the US but there is no priority here to eliminate high level importers and money launderers. Without active cooperation from high level law enforcement agencies the drugs could never enter the country in the humongous amounts they do now. Local, state and US public officials have a go along to get along attitude. They are more interested in getting home safely and spending their pensions than eliminating major criminal empires. Harvard Law School's White House promoter of hope and change ignores government corruption. Obama appointed many admitted criminal rogues to high level positions in his administration. His AG refuses to prosecute allies. The public is marginally interested in this as an issue. It is easier to give money to the politicians than to fight for freedom.

http://bostonherald.com/news/international/americas/view.bg?articleid=1219516&srvc=news&position=recent

Mexican navy kills top cartel kingpin in shootout
By Associated Press
Boston Herald
Thursday, December 17, 2009 -