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    TX: HPD officer shot while serving warrant

    HPD officer shot while serving warrant

    By SUSAN CARROLL Copyright 2011 Houston Chronicle
    Feb. 24, 2011, 9:52AM

    A Houston Police narcotics officer was shot this morning while serving a warrant in North Houston as part of a federal operation led by the DEA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

    HPD spokesman John Cannon said he had no details on the officer’s condition. The officer was transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital.

    The agents and officers were serving a warrant at in the 200 block of Buckboard as part of the federal operation, which involved dozens of targets across the city.

    Cannon said two suspects were in custody in connection with the shooting, and two had been shot. He did not have details on the suspects' conditions.

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    APNewsBreak: Mexican drug gang suspects rounded up

    By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press © 2011 The Associated Press
    Feb. 24, 2011, 8:42AM

    WASHINGTON — Federal, state and local authorities conducted a massive sweep Thursday of suspected Mexican drug cartel members in the United States in a widespread domestic response to the killing of a U.S. agent in Mexico last week.

    "We are taking a stand and we are sending a message back to the cartels that we will not tolerate the murder of a U.S. agent, or any U.S. official," said Carl Pike, assistant special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's special operations division.

    Pike said the nationwide roundup, which began Wednesday and was expected to continue into Friday, is targeting suspected criminals with ties to any Mexican drug cartel to try to disrupt drug trafficking operations in the United States.

    By Thursday morning, agents in areas including Atlanta, St. Louis, Denver, Detroit, San Antonio, San Diego, Chicago and New Jersey had seized more than $4.5 million in cash and nearly 20 guns, arrested more than 100 people and confiscated about 23 pounds of methamphetamine, 107 kilos of cocaine, 5 pounds of heroin and 300 pounds of marijuana at more than 150 different locations.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata was killed, and fellow ICE agent Victor Avila was wounded in Mexico on Feb. 15 when the Chevy Suburban they were in was run off the road by at least two vehicles loaded with armed men. Authorities have said the agents, who were driving in a fortified sport utility vehicle with diplomatic license plates, identified themselves as U.S. diplomats in the moments before the shooting.

    Mexican authorities have arrested one person in connection with the brazen attack, which is believed to be the work of members of Mexico's Zetas gang. Former Mexican special forces soldiers are among its members.

    "We are basically going out to disrupt narcotics distribution here in the United States no matter what cartel their allegiance is to," Pike said. "It would be futile to send a message back to one cartel when they all are just as guilty."

    Pike said that while the sweeps are a direct response to Zapata's killing, the majority of suspects were already targets of other investigations.

    "People actually sacrificed a great deal of work" for these sweeps, Pike said. "For the lost agent's memory it's important, but we're also in a bully situation. If we don't push back, some other 18-year-old cartel member is going to think, 'They didn't do anything, so all U.S. citizens are fair game.'"

    Mexican law enforcement and politicians have become routine targets of Mexico's warring drug cartels. But for the most part, U.S. authorities had largely been avoided.

    Last year, an employee at the U.S. consulate and her husband, a Texas jail guard, were killed on their way back to El Paso, Texas, from a birthday party in neighboring Ciudad Juarez. But Zapata's killing marks the highest profile attack on U.S. authorities in Mexico since the 1985 kidnapping and killing of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.

    This week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon complained that U.S. help in the fight against warring cartels has been "insufficient." He made the comment to a Mexican newspaper in response to recently disclosed secret diplomatic cables in which U.S. officials criticized his anti-drug strategy. Calderon told the newspaper that the dispatches show U.S. diplomats' ignorance about Mexican security efforts.

    More than 35,000 people have been killed since Calderon launched a crackdown against drug gangs in December 2006.

    Mexican authorities are leading the investigation of Zapata's death and the Justice Department has announced a joint task force, led by the FBI, with the Homeland Security Department.

    The Drug Enforcement Administration coordinated the sweep along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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    Meanwhile, over in Austin, the illegal invader mobs assemble and demand amnesty and other freebies from our country, while their brethren are shooting police officers Houston.

    When does this insanity end?
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    Quote Originally Posted by NoBueno
    Meanwhile, over in Austin, the illegal invader mobs assemble and demand amnesty and other freebies from our country, while their brethren are shooting police officers Houston.

    When does this insanity end?
    I hope by now those who claim to represent Texans understand who to listen too. We'll see in a few weeks if the message got to them. Houston and the deaths of our police officers is the result of not listening.
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    "WASHINGTON — Federal, state and local authorities conducted a massive sweep Thursday of suspected Mexican drug cartel members in the United States in a widespread domestic response to the killing of a U.S. agent in Mexico last week. "


    Isn't it Queen Napolitano who keeps making the claim that the border is secure and that there has been no cartel spillover into the United States?

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    Good I hope the USA starts to push back id like our president to push back as well and let mr calderon know that we'll be more than happy to handle his cartel problem with abig ol'can of old fashion american kickazz but as a resault of us doing his dirty work he has to personally thank every US taxpaying citizen for their contributions to his people here and over there and for the security they can now enjoy because our help. On top of that we should no longer have to pay the mexican goverment for anything untill they pay back all the monies that the mexicans have already stolen from the american people (I.e. the health care , education costs) they say they're a proud people but very few of them stand on their own two feet they seem more dependant on us than we are them oh sure the media tells us we need them and acts like they know best but the truth is we don't even need to media news in this country should have a disclamier stating for entertaiment purposes only

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    Obama to meet Mexico's Calderon amid drug violence

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    This meeting is supposed to happen next week. Can't wait to see if Calderon does a repeat performance of his grand speech to Congress last year.

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    updated from the houston chronicle

    HPD officer shot in sweep to punish Mexico's drug cartels
    By DANE SCHILLER and SUSAN CARROLL
    Copyright 2011 Houston Chronicle
    Feb. 24, 2011, 10:38AM

    Two suspects were reportedly shot and a Houston police officer wounded this morning as part of a nationwide sweep to punish Mexico’s drug cartels and those accused of helping them do business in the U.S.

    There was no immediate word on the officer’s condition, but his injuries were not expected to be life-threatening, and he was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital.

    As for the suspects, authorities won’t say if they are dead or alive.

    The officer was shot while serving an arrest warrant as part of a team that included federal agents, said Carl Pike, assistant special agent in charge of special operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

    Agents and officers were serving a warrant in the 200 block of Buckboard as part of joint federal efforts code-named "Operation Fallen Hero" and "Operation Bombardier" in response to the slaying last week of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata, who was driving an official vehicle in Mexico.

    Raids that are continuing today in Houston and across the nation are a clear payback for the attack on Zapata and a fellow agent injured when they were ambushed by gunmen believed to work for a Mexican cartel known as the Zetas.

    "We are not just going after Zetas, we are going after all cartels," Pike said. "We want all the cartels to realize this. It is the school-yard mentality — a bully situation," he continued. "The cartels have pushed — if you don’t push back, you become the victim. U.S. law enforcement is not going to become the victim."

    Pike said that the raids began quietly earlier this week and would continue for about another 24 hours. He expected several hundred people would be arrested. Already, officers have seized cash, guns, drugs.

    At least 144 people have been taken into custody, and $5.5 million in cash seized. That includes $1 million in the Dallas area.

    Pike said further action is expected to be taken in the next few hours in Latin America.

    There was not much information immediately available on the injured officer.

    "When we heard the officer was shot this morning, it gave everybody pause," Pike said. "What he did today is a true testament to what law enforcement in the United States means and why we aren’t going to be pushed around."

    Among the federal agencies making arrests are the DEA, ICE, FBI, Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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    I thought I just posted this comment on the article, maybe not, I will try again. "Drugs furnished by the ILLEGALS, Drug Wars by the ILLEGALS, United States Citizens murdered by the ILLEGALS but not to worry the Sanctuary Cities and States will continue to furnish Cheap ILLEGAL Labor for the Elitist Political Contributors and Special Interest Groups of course they feel safe in their Gated Communities. If you venture out and you are murdered by an ILLEGAL Drunk Driver or you are a Police Officer murdered by an ILLEGAL during the commission of a crime or a traffic stop or a United States Citizen is in the "wrong" place (any Sanctuary City or State) and caught in the cross fire just remember Our Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Political Contributors consider those murdered as a SMALL SACRIFICE for THEIR CHEAP ILLEGAL LABOR/potential votes."

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    HPD Officer expected to recover completely

    Nainash Patel, 39, an HPD narcotics officer, was shot twice, with one bullet going through his elbow and another still lodged in his hip. Patel was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital and is expected to have a 100 percent recovery, said HPD Police Chief Charles McClelland.

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