Thirteen retirees have been shot dead at a detoxification centre near the Mexican border city of Tijuana, police say.The reason for Sunday's attack was not immediately known, a police official told the AFP news agency, but it was apparently linked to the drug war that has claimed thousands of lives this year.Elsewhere in the country, a mother and her two teenage children were killed in Torreon in the northern Coahuila state, when men in vans opened...
The woman who says her husband was gunned down by Mexican pirates now has a new mission.After a long road trip, Tiffany Hartley is back in Colorado and says she plans to raise awareness about border violence.Last month Tiffany and her husband David were jet skiing on Falcon Lake along the border of Texas and Mexico when they were attacked. Hartley says gunman in boats shot and killed David and she fled from the area because she was concerned for her safety. His body has not been found and it's believed the Zetas drug cartel is responsible."I had...
Reliable sources in Mexico have provided information that the Sept. 30 shooting death of U.S. citizen David Hartley on Falcon Lake — which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border — was a mistake committed by a low-level member of the Los Zetas drug trafficking organization. Those responsible for Hartley’s death are believed to have disposed of his body and that the Zeta hierarchy was conducting a damage-control operation to punish those responsible for the death and to distance the cartel from the murder. Sources further reported that the murder of the...
Three bystanders died in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Mexico on Sunday.The victims were a 14-year-old boy and two women aged 18 and 47, according to a statement by the prosecutors' office in northern Coahuila state.The statement said gunmen traveling in two vehicles opened fire on a convoy of federal police and soldiers in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila. The officers and soldiers returned fire.It was not clear who fired the shots that killed the bystanders, but the state attorney general's office said...
death toll rose to 14 in the weekend massacre at a boy’s birthday party in Ciudad Juárez, the Chihuahua State attorney general’s office said Sunday.RelatedGunmen burst into the party in a small concrete house in a working-class Ciudad Juárez neighborhood on Friday and opened fire, killing 13 people immediately and wounding 20, state officials said. A 14th victim died in the hospital late Saturday night.A 13-year-old girl was the youngest of the dead, which included several older teenagers. A 9-year-old boy was wounded.Ciudad Juárez has become one...
Gunmen in the Mexican city of Tijuana have shot dead 13 people at a drug rehabilitation centre, say police.The attack appeared to be connected to the long-running violent conflict between drugs gangs in the the country, in which thousands have been killed.On Saturday, 14 people, most of them teenagers, were shot dead at a party in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.Last week, police in Tijuana destroyed 134 tonnes of cannabis - the largest drugs haul ever seized in the country.The drugs, with an estimated street value of at least $340m (£214m), had...
Just a little over a week since the reported shooting death of American David Hartley on the waters of Falcon Lake, Mexican Soldiers searching the area discover a car in the brush. The Mexican National Defense Ministry said the soldiers were conducting patrols around the town of New Guerrero, Mexico, near the southern shore of Falcon Lake when they found a car with six people inside. According to officials, the people in the car were Zetas cartel members; as the soldiers approached them, the gun battle began. The Defence Ministry said all six of...
mayor-elect of a small town in Oaxaca state has been slain, police have said, on the heels of 11 murders of mayors in Mexico so far this year.Antonio Jimenez, who was about to take over the mayor's post in Martires de Tacubaya, a town of 1,200, was murdered Friday on his way home from working in the country. There was no motive or suspect immediately known, police said.Jimenez, 47, was a teacher and member of the center-left Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).Authorities have blamed the murders of the other mayors on organized crime and drug...
Hallan cuerpos descuartizados en Ixmiquilpan | Noticias | BlogdelNarco.com: "dismembered with a message allegedly organized crime, were found the bodies of two men in the community Fitzhi, in the municipality of Ixmiquilpan.The bodies were found about 05:00 in the morning by staff of the Research Coordination, after receiving a call in which he reported the find.Upon arriving in the area, noticed items that were located where the mutilated bodies...
El Blog del Narco: "El director de Tránsito del municipio de Cerralvo, José Gerardo Garza Mendoza alias “El Gory” , abandonó este jueves las celdas del Cereso de Apodaca, luego de ganar un amparo contra el auto de formal prisión.Fue el juez Tercero de Distrito de esta entidad quien absolvió al funcionario, luego de permanecer una semana detenido al ser acusado de incurrir en varios delito...
Twitter feeds and blogs tell hidden story of Mexico's drug wars | World news | The Guardian: "small army of bloggers and tweeters is filling the gaps left by traditional media in Mexico that are increasingly limiting their coverage of the country's drug wars because of pressure from the cartels.'Shots fired by the river, unknown number of dead,' read one recent tweet on a busy feed from the northern border city of Reynosa, #Reynosafollow. 'Organized crime blockade on San Fernando road lifted,' said another. 'Just saw police officers telling a group...
Latin American Herald Tribune - Mexico Nabs 17 Suspected Members of Gulf Cartel: "Marines arrested 17 suspected Gulf cartel members in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the Mexican navy said Tuesday.The arrests of the suspects, who were paraded before reporters on Tuesday at the Matamoros Naval Sector base in Tamaulipas, was made possible by “information obtained via naval intelligence work,” the navy said in a statement.Marines seized 49 rifles, two handguns and 42 vehicles, including several trucks with trailers, automobiles and SUVs from...
BBC News - World News America - Mexico's drug violence on screen: "deadly drug war has become a daily reality for the people of Mexico. Last weekend alone, nearly 50 people were killed in violence tied to the cartels. The disturbing trend has permeated many aspects of Mexican culture and even the movies offer little escape. As the BBC's Julian Miglierini reports, a whole genre of films is bringing the drug related violence to the big scree...
5 of a family killed in Mexico drug war - Hindustan Times: "Gunmen murdered five members of a family in Mexico City, in what may have been a 'settling of scores' between rival drug traffickers, a senior official has said. 'Some indications have been found inside the residence that point to an issue related to 'narco-retailing'. They tell us of possible direct revenge against this family,' district attorney Miguel Angel Mancera said.The gunmen murdered Clemente Sanchez Salinas, a 51-year-old seller of bags and raincoats, and took the other four...
Mexico’s Drug War Crosses the Border | FrumForum: "Brownsville Police Chief Carlos Garcia confirmed the information provided to The Brownsville Herald by Mexican law enforcement officials who stated that one of the men killed is the younger brother of former Gulf Cartel members Alberto “Beto Fabe” Castillo Flores and Oscar “El Apache” Castillo Flores, 33. Beto Fabe, who served as a lieutenant with the cartel, was killed in Matamoros last summer while Oscar Castillo joined the Zetas criminal organization. El Apache was arrested in Brownsville in...
Latin American Herald Tribune - Mexican Arrests Zetas Boss in Cancun: "The suspected boss of the Los Zetas drug cartel in the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo was captured by army troops, the Defense Secretariat said.Jose Angel Fernandez de Lara Diaz, who was based in Cancun, was arrested last Friday in the Caribbean resort city, the secretariat said.Fernandez de Lara told authorities that he belonged to Los Zetas and was put in charge of operations in the area by the group’s leader, Heriberto Lazcano, in June.The suspect was in charge...
Americans on a deadly pace in Mexico | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "Forty-eight Americans were killed in Mexico during the first six months of 2010 — a deadly pace that appears likely to exceed any previous year of homicides on record, according to the Houston Chronicle's analysis of the U.S. State Department's death registry.The tally doesn't include two Texans reported killed Sept. 30 in separate incidents in isolated areas of Tamaulipas, where the terrorist group known as the Zetas has been warring with their Gulf Cartel rivals in...
search for a missing American tourist presumably shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake has been thwarted by threats of an ambush from drug gangs, U.S. officials said Thursday.U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar told reporters that Mexican authorities are doing everything they can to find David Hartley's body while trying to keep their own crews safe."When darkness was falling (Wednesday evening), they got word that there might be an ambush," Cuellar said. "People that are trying to do their job on the Mexican side are facing a risk, they're...
U.S. officials say the search for an American tourist reportedly shot dead on a border lake by Mexican pirates has been hampered by threats of an ambush from drug gangs.David Hartley was a native of Loveland, Colorado, and he has family who lives here.A rally is scheduled to begin Friday with a walk at 12:30 p.m. from Four Mile Historic Park in Denver. The group will go to the Mexican Consulate and rally there at 1:00 p.m. The idea is to turn up the pressure on the Mexican government to recover Hartley’s body.U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas said...
Wallace Parrish, 19, of West Fourth Street was arrested last weekend in connection with the Sept. 28 death of 44-year-old Johnston Avenue resident Isidro Leonardo, an employee of United Taxi on Watchung Avenue. Parrish made his first appearance before Superior Court Judge Joan Robinson Gross on Wednesday, when he did not comment at length about the case that authorities have described as a robbery gone wrong.It was not immediately known Thursday whether Parrish had secured legal representation, but details about his life during the months leading...
