Thread: 20 Mexicans with assault rifles rob (U.S. Owned) train

The week in Mexico
2:00 a.m. December 28, 2008

Train robbery: A gang of about 20 men armed with assault rifles robbed a train in Michoacan state and carted off some of its freight, the state prosecutor's office said yesterday. The gang parked a pickup across the tracks Friday, forcing the Kansas City Southern-operated train traveling from the Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas to stop. The thieves may have been after drums of pseudoephedrine, a chemical used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine, a state Attorney General's Office official said.

Presidential guard arrest: Prosecutors said a member of the presidential guard was placed under arrest for possibly passing information to the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel in exchange for payments of as much as $100,000. The federal prosecutor's office yesterday identified Arturo González RodrÃ*guez as an army major assigned to the unit that guards the president.

Slain soldiers honored: The government honored eight soldiers beheaded by drug traffickers in a high-profile ceremony in Guerrero state aimed at reassuring the nation that it won't surrender in the battle against crime.
Cockfight arrests: Soldiers arrested Zihautanejo deputy police chief Timoteo Mata Cruz and six officers who were allegedly protecting drug cartel members at a cockfight Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said. Fourteen suspected Beltrán Leyva gang members were arrested, and 59 packets of cocaine, 40 bags of marijuana and 20 assault rifles were seized.

Gardener's testimony: A gardener detained with more than a dozen members of an alleged drug trafficking ring testified that police threatened to feed him to lions and tigers during an Oct. 16 raid at a Mexico City mansion. Mexico's former acting federal police chief, Gerardo Garay, is under investigation for allegedly stealing money from the mansion, which had a private zoo with exotic animals. Reforma newspaper said gardener Fernando Maya testified Tuesday that police beat him, gave him electric shocks and threatened to rape his wife if he did not reveal the whereabouts of the owner of the house, who remains at large. Maya claimed police dragged him to cages with lions and tigers and threatened to throw him inside.

Operation Tumbleweed: U.S. authorities broke up a drug-trafficking ring that imported $1 billion in marijuana to Arizona from Sonoyta, Mexico. Operation Tumbleweed led to the indictment of 59 people and 39 arrests of members of the Garibaldi-Lopez drug-trafficking organization on felony charges, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said.

Telmex newscast: Mexican telephone giant Telmex launched a Web-based newscast while it awaits permission from regulatory authorities to enter the country's TV market. The company has set up UNO TV on the Web site of Telmex's Prodigy Media, where it offers a brief news stream twice a day, Monday through Friday.

Boulder blocks road: A huge boulder that fell on the La Rumorosa highway between Mexicali and Tecate on Tuesday was blasted into pieces, allowing traffic to flow more smoothly on the Baja California road.

Compiled from news reports by Foreign Editor David Gaddis Smith: david.smith@uniontrib.com; (619) 293-2211

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Armed gang holds up train in Mexico, robs freight

By GUSTAVO RUIZ, The Associated Press 2:13 p.m. December 27, 2008

MORELIA, Mexico — A gang of about 20 men armed with assault rifles robbed a train in the western Mexican state of Michoacan and carted off some of its freight, the state prosecutor's office said Saturday.
The gang parked a pickup truck across the tracks on Friday, forcing the train to stop.

The assailants then threatened the train's crew and opened some of the freight containers it was carrying.

A statement by the prosecutor's office did not specify what the gang stole from the train, operated by Kansas City Southern, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based railway company.

But the thieves may have been after drums of pseudoephedrine, a chemical used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamines, according to an official at the Michoacan state attorney general's office. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted by name.

The train was carrying imported merchandise from the Pacific coast port of Lazaro Cardenas.

Mexico, which does not make pseudoephedrine, imported it in large amounts in the past. The government has since banned almost all legal imports of the chemical, however, although illicit shipments remain a problem.

Also Saturday, prosecutors in the northwestern state of Sinaloa reported that at least four people were killed in a gunbattle between suspected drug traffickers in a remote mountain area.

The running battle apparently started on Christmas eve and continued for some time in the drug-plagued region known as "the Golden Triangle," near the border with Durango state, assistant state prosecutor Ramon Rodrigo Castro said.

Police using helicopters rescued two men wounded in the confrontation in the largely roadless area. But when the injured men were being transferred later by land to a hospital, about 30 masked gunmen intercepted the ambulance and abducted the victims.

Rodrigo Castro said he thought more bodies were likely to be found.
In other criminal matters, a judge ordered 23 suspected drug traffickers and local police officers held under house arrest after they were detained Tuesday with guns, drugs and cash at a cockfight in Zihuatanejo, a Pacific coast beach town, prosecutors said Saturday. The police officers allegedly were protecting the traffickers.

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Mexico reports 7 dead in Tijuana weekend shootings

The Associated Press 1:48 p.m. December 28, 2008

MEXICO CITY — Seven people have died in a series of shootings in the Mexican border city of Tijuana over the weekend.

Prosecutors in Baja California state say the deaths happened late Saturday and early Sunday in various parts of the city, located across the border from San Diego, California.

Two of the dead were found shot to death in a home, two others in the trunk of a car, two in the street and one at a taco stand.
In the southern state of Guerrero, the bound bodies of two men were found near the capital, Chilpancingo, and a policeman was shot to death in the resort city of Acapulco.

Brutal slayings by drug cartels are on the rise. Officials estimate that more than 5,300 people have died in organized crime-related slayings this year.

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Coming soon to Amtrak and other trains in this country because of wide open borders. And who thought the old west was dead??????

If Mexican nationals attack or rob a train in the U S then it's really an act of war.

Originally Posted by Justthatguy

If Mexican nationals attack or rob a train in the U S then it's really an act of war.

The train was in Mexico when it was robbed.

Kansas City Southern has a 99 year lease on the rail line and the port of Lazaro Cardenas. Pseudoephederine is manufactured in India and China and is shipped to Mexico marked as other cargo or in this case apparently through Mexico to a legitimate pharmaceuticals firm in the USA. What probably happened is that a Mexican shipping clerk noticed the presence of the chemical on a manifest of cargo going to the United States and sold the information to criminals.

When the NAFTA super highway goes threw there will be trains running along side the highways...this will be an everyday occurance....our goverment officials just can not get it through their heard you can not have this kind of transportation with 3rd world corrupt countries!

Kansas city smart port

Click on "Show rail lines" then click on ( Show highways) you will be in shock!!

http://www.kcsmartport.com/sec_corridor ... t_maps.htm

Oh and how much do you want to bet here is where your 1 trillion dollar stimulus package is going and for another little stab in the back by our government, illegals will get the work...after all according to them they built this country!

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

When the NAFTA super highway goes threw there will be trains running along side the highways...this will be an everyday occurance....our goverment officials just can not get it through their heard you can not have this kind of transportation with 3rd world corrupt countries!

Kansas city smart port

Click on "Show rail lines" then click on ( Show highways) you will be in shock!!

http://www.kcsmartport.com/sec_corridor ... t_maps.htm

Oh and how much do you want to bet here is where your 1 trillion dollar stimulus package is going and for another little stab in the back by our government, illegals will get the work...after all according to them they built this country!

I also expect this site to come down anytime as they did the NAFTA super highway site....I guess it upset some people who realized all the highways and where they were leading to

Since this work for them this time you can bet they will be back for more.