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05-09-2011, 03:00 PM #1
Battle With Mexican Gang at Texas-Border Lake Kills 13
MAY 9, 2011, 1:59 P.M. ET.
Battle With Mexican Gang at Texas-Border Lake Kills 13
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY—The Mexican navy said Monday that marines patrolling a lake along the border with Texas discovered a drug gang camp on an island, provoking a gunbattle Sunday that left 13 people dead.
The navy said one marine and 12 gunmen from the Zetas drug cartel were killed in the gunbattle on the island on Falcon Lake, about 45 miles northwest of McAllen, Texas.
The navy said Monday that the gunmen opened fire when the marines found the camp. The statement said marines seized more than 20 guns, including several assault rifles, after the shooting.
The statement said the Zetas were smuggling marijuana from the camp into Texas by speedboat.
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05-09-2011, 04:40 PM #2
Firefight Across Border from Falcon Lake
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Nuevo Guerrero, Mexico- The Mexican Navy says marines killed 12 Zetas across the border from Falcon Lake.
The 12 Zetas and a Mexican marine were killed in a major gun battle between Mexican navy soldiers and Zetas near New Guerrero, Mexico, Sunday afternoon. New Guerrero is on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake. The lake is in Zapata County.
The Navy says the Zetas were using an island near New Guerrero to smuggle marijuana on Falcon Lake in to the United States.
Marines say they took assault rifles, ammunition and bulletproof vests from the scene after the gun battle.
Last September, David Hartley and his wife were attacked near Old Guerrero while they were jet skiing. Investigators have told us they believe the Zetas were responsible. David Hartley died. His wife,Tiffany, survived that attack.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigi Gonzalez tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS he did not have information about the latest shootout.
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05-09-2011, 05:36 PM #3
MEXICO CITY — Mexican marines patrolling a lake along the border with Texas discovered a drug gang camp on an island, provoking a gunbattle that left 13 people dead, the navy said Monday.
..One marine and 12 suspected gunmen of the Zetas drug cartel were killed in the battle Sunday on Falcon Lake in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the navy said in a statement.
The navy said the gunmen opened fire first when the marines discovered the camp, which the gang is believed to have used as a launching point for smuggling marijuana into Texas by speedboat. Marines seized more than 20 guns after the shootout, including several assault rifles.
Falcon Lake, a dammed section of the Rio Grande, is where U.S. citizen David Hartley was presumably chased and gunned down by pirates Sept. 30. His body has not been found and Mexican investigators have reported no leads in the case.
His wife, Tiffany Hartley, told authorities she and her husband were using personal watercraft on Falcon Lake when they were approached by pirates who shot and killed her husband. The couple, who lived in nearby McAllen, Texas, at the time, were returning to Texas after photographing a historic church on the Mexican side of the lake, Hartley said.
Mexican officials called off a search for David Hartley on Oct. 14, but the case remains open.
The search was hampered when authorities received threats, presumably from the Zetas. The Tamaulipas state police commander and chief investigator of the Hartley case, Rolando Flores, was killed while the search was under way, his decapitated head delivered in a suitcase to a local Mexican army post.
Mexican authorities say they don't know whether Flores' killing was related to the Hartley case because he had been in charge of several investigations.
The Zetas are locked in a fierce turf battle with the Gulf cartel that has turned much of Tamaulipas state into a virtual war zone. Last month, security forces discovered more than 40 clandestine graves containing 183 bodies. Many of the victims had apparently been pulled off passenger buses by Zetas gunmen trying to recruit them.
A similar discovery was made last month in the northern state of Durango, another drug cartel battleground. Soldiers unearthed 11 more bodies — one woman and 10 men — from mass graves there over the weekend, bringing the rapidly mounting toll to at least 168, according to a statement Monday from the Durango state attorney general's office.
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05-10-2011, 01:45 AM #4
12 suspected Zeta gunmen die in battle along border
Mexico loses marine on island at Falcon Lake
By LYNN BREZOSKY
STAFF WRITER
May 9, 2011, 9:46PM
BROWNSVILLE — Mexican military patrolling the Falcon Lake reservoir along the Texas border killed 12 presumed Zeta drug gang members in a gunbattle that erupted after they discovered a drug encampment on an island, the Mexican navy said Monday.
One marine was killed in the shootout, which occurred Sunday afternoon on a portion of the lake some two miles northeast of Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, part of the Zeta stronghold in northwest Tamaulipas state.
"Sadly, one member of this institution lost his life in completing this mission," the navy said in a press release.
The island was believed to be a holding place for marijuana carried on speedboats to Texas shores, the navy said. Following the battle, the military seized a cache of firearms, including 19 large arms, a .50-caliber rifle and a machine gun as well as ammunition, bulletproof vests and surveillance equipment.
The news came on the eve of President Barack Obama's visit to El Paso today to make a push for comprehensive immigration reform. Republicans have repeatedly said they won't support immigration reform until more is done to secure the border.
Warnings of 'pirates'
The Mexican side of the binational reservoir has become notorious as the site where David Hartley, a U.S. citizen, was presumably shot on Sept. 30, 2010. His body was never recovered.
U.S. authorities had previously warned of "pirates" shaking down tourists and fishermen in Mexican waters and continue to urge visitors to remain in Texas waters.
Hartley's wife, Tiffany, said the two were ambushed near the Mexican side the lake. She raced her personal watercraft back to the U.S. after the incident, and has since become an outspoken advocate for border security.
On Monday Tiffany Hartley was en route to Washington to attend a congressional hearing.
The Texas side of the lake straddles largely remote Starr and Zapata counties, where dense brush lining the shores provides ample cover for drug smugglers.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez, the main U.S. investigator in the Hartley shooting, said he was angry he wasn't notified of the gunfight.
U.S. sheriff is upset
"We have gotten basically no information whatsoever from Mexico," he said. "The way I learned of this incident … was through media."
Gonzalez said sources told him Monday that the Zetas who weren't killed in the attack commandeered nearby commercial fishing boats and fled, likely to U.S. shores.
"It was Mother's Day yesterday. There were people out there (on Falcon Lake), perhaps barbecuing," he said.
U.S. authorities said they lacked jurisdiction to search the Mexican side, and Tamaulipas investigator Rolando Flores, who'd promised support to the Hartley family, was killed, his decapitated head delivered to an army post in a suitcase.
Conditions have deteriorated in the months since, as the Zetas try to maintain control over the small Mexican towns opposite the Texas border between Laredo and McAllen.
Attacks, mass graves
In late April, cartel gunmen attacked the cities of Miguel Alemán and Ciudad Mier, torching buildings and disrupting life just months after a siege that forced the evacuation of Mier.
In San Fernando, to the southeast, another Zeta stronghold, authorities spent much of April digging up mass graves. The latest tally is 183 bodies, believed to be uncooperative recruits taken in an attempt to bolster depleted Zeta ranks. Many show signs of being bludgeoned to death.
The military, and in particular the small and somewhat elite navy, has appeared to make inroads under Mexican President Felipe Calderón, most recently announcing the capture of MartÃ*n Omar Estrada Luna, known as "El Kilo," a U.S.-raised leader of the Zeta cell blamed for the mass graves.
The road to San Fernando, dubbed the "highway of death" because of the mass graves, is now dotted with military checkpoints, where soldiers give travelers an emergency number to call should they be pursued.
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