Seven police officers were hurt Thursday when a bomb detonated at a hotel in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, authorities said. The blast occurred at 7:30 a.m., a source in the Tamaulipas state Attorney General's Office told Efe. The injured state police officers were taken to a hospital in the city, which lies just across the border from Laredo, Texas. Authorities are still trying to determine whether the bomb was inside the motel or...
The two most important criminal organizations in Mexico are engaged in all-out war, and the most spectacular battles are being fought for the cameras as the combatants pursue a strategy of intimidation and propaganda by dumping ever greater numbers of headless bodies in public view — the victims most likely innocents. No longer limiting themselves to regional skirmishes, the older, established drug-smuggling Sinaloa cartel now is fighting the brash,...
The security forces in Mexico have raided a workshop making fake Mexican military uniforms and body armour. Officials said the uniforms were used by Mexican drug cartels to set up road blocks and carry out kidnappings. They said the uniforms made it easier for criminals to approach their victims, who did not realise they were being targeted until it was too late. President Felipe Calderon deployed the military six years ago to help fight Mexico's...
two dozen alleged members of the Bloods gang, many of them from the Charlotte area, have been charged in a racketeering enterprise that involved drugs, robberies and murder conspiracy. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that 27 members of the United Blood Nation, or simply the “Bloods,” were arrested May 18 following a two-year investigation involving the FBI, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the N.C. State...
In fact, according to the Department of Defense and FBI data, the number of Chicagoans murdered is two and a half times U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001. With NATO in the rear-view mirror, area law enforcement officials and politicians will turn their attention away from unruly protestors back to the city's rising murder rate - up 54 percent from last year, according to police data. Last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a new...
The April 2012 murder and dismemberment of 14 people whose bodies were methodically placed in front of a lengthy and detailed narco-banner apparently didn’t make enough of an impact to satisfy Sinaloa Federation Cartel leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. One week later, Mexican authorities found nine more corpses hanging from a bridge. The heads of fourteen additional bodies were discovered near Nuevo Laredo’s city hall. The brutality...
The Mexican army says it has arrested a man suspected of ordering the brutal killing of 49 people a week ago. The bodies were found dumped by a roadside near the city of Monterrey in northern Nuevo Leon state. An army spokesman said Daniel Jesus Elizondo, known as El Loco, or The Madman, was arrested by troops. The authorities say he is the local leader of the Zetas drug cartel, which, they say, left threatening messages with the bodies. In a...
Photo: Guatemala PoliceClick Here to Enlarge PhotoThree suspected employees of Mexico’s Los Zetas drug cartel were arrested in the eastern province of Zacapa after a gunfight with security forces, the Guatemalan interior minister said Thursday.The clash Wednesday in the town of Gualan...
THE detective who led the hunt for a gangland enforcer who tortured his victim during a clash over £50,000 of drug money has welcomed the six- year sentence he was given. Dean Buchanan, 33, forced Mark Morris into a van in Bathgate, West Lothian before inflicting serious injuries on him in August 2010. Morris, 39, told how he feared for his life during an attack by “ten or 15 men”. Detective Chief Inspector Phil Gachagan, who led the inquiry,...
A prominent Honduran radio journalist was killed by drug gangs in retaliation for a government crackdown on cartels, the country's security minister said on Wednesday. Alfredo Villatoro, a well-known media personality, was found shot in the head on Tuesday a week after being kidnapped, the latest attack on the media in the violent Central American nation. The attack on Villatoro comes as police have stepped up arrests of traffickers and prosecutors...
jury convicted two men Wednesday of first-degree murder in the killings of two men whose bodies were dissolved in acid for a Mexican drug gang. Prosecutors said the gruesome case is one of the worst examples of Mexico’s horrific drug violence spilling over the border into the United States. 0 Comments Weigh InCorrections? Personal Post Jose Olivera Beritan and David Valencia could face maximum terms of life in prison without parole when they...
THE man believed by police to be the central figure in a bikie feud has declared he is not at fault for Sydney's spate of drive-by shootings and says they are the "act of a coward". Wissam Amer, 28, broke his silence to The Sunday Telegraph to say he was not at the heart of the current shootings between the Hells Angels and Nomads outlaw motorcycle gangs. Last week The Sunday Telegraph revealed police believe Amer was the source of the conflict...
Police found the decapitated and dismembered bodies of 18 people near Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara, on Wednesday, in what appeared to be the latest atrocity by the country's most brutal drug cartel. Thought to have been carried out by the Zetas gang, it was one of the biggest mass beheadings in the recent history of Mexico, where decapitations have become alarmingly common. The bodies and heads were stuffed into two vehicles abandoned...
The recent deaths of at least a dozen people in clashes in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, as rival groups linked to the Zetas move into "Chapo Guzman's" home territory, may be evidence that the concept of the "plaza" dominated by a single group is losing its force. According to the Sinaloa newspaper Riodoce, the fighting started when an army patrol was ambushed. After receiving reports of a gunfight in a rural community in the municipality...
Two women and three men, all in their early 20s, were killed in a shoot-out in Mexico City. In another incident, five men and four women were blindfolded and strung from Nuevo Laredo bridge, near the Texan border. And in a third, police found the cut-up bodies of 14 people in garbage bags and ice boxes dumped near Nuevo Laredo’s police station. Blood-soaked heads were in some boxes. Bloody ... scene of crime A total of 50,000 have died since...
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