Thread: Breaking News! Just accross the border 4 police killed

Published: 05.16.2007

4 police killed in Mexico; anti-kidnapping chief kidnapped
By OMAN NEVAREZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- A group of more than 40 armed men abducted and killed four Mexican policemen Wednesday about 20 miles south of the Arizona border, and the anti-kidnapping chief in another northern Mexico state was reportedly kidnapped.

Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours declined to speculate on a motive for the slaying of the four policemen in his state, but Mexico has seen a wave of attacks on police, military and intelligence officials as the government battles drug trafficking gangs.

The assailants drove in 10 to 15 vehicles into the city of Cananea and detained the police who were in two patrol cars, the Sonora state police said in a news release.

The bullet-riddled bodies of the policemen, along with 50 spent cartridges were found on the side of a road hours later. Another policeman, a gas-station owner and an unidentified Cananea resident also were abducted and are still missing, the release said.

Meanwhile, authorities in the northern state of Coahuila reported that men disguised as Mexican federal agents had kidnapped the state's chief anti-kidnapping investigator.

Lucio Tello, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office, said that Enrique Ruiz Arevalo, director-general for investigations of kidnapping and organized crime for the agency, has been missing since Monday when he was seized as he ate breakfast in a restaurant.

The four kidnappers carried rifles and wore black uniforms with the insignia of the Federal Agency of Investigation, Mexico's equivalent of the FBI, when they grabbed Ruiz Arevalo and another agent in Torreon, 310 miles southwest of the U.S. border at Eagle Pass, Texas.

They released the other agent hours later. He said he had been blindfolded, roughed up and insulted.

Tello said the attorney general's office knew of no motive for the abduction.

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At the rate its going we'll soon have this in our backyards with Boosh and Gonzo to thank for a soaring death rate of American citizens.

Originally Posted by WhatMattersMost

At the rate its going we'll soon have this in our backyards with Boosh and Gonzo to thank for a soaring death rate of American citizens.

I agree and that's when Americans will finally answer to that with REAL DEFENSE.

Police officers slain just south of the border

09:07 PM MST on Wednesday, May 16, 2007

By Bob Richardson, Fox 11 News

Slideshow: Arizpe Shootout following Cananea murders

An early morning raid in the small mining community of Cananea, Sonora, has left at least four police officers dead and other officers and civilians missing.

It happened at 12:30 a.m. in the community south of Naco, Arizona.

Fox 11 News confirmed with federal police that the raid involved upwards of 50 people in a caravan of vehicles. Those police sources confirm the four dead, but there are other reports two other police officers are missing as well as two civilians.

The target was an armory near Cananea. There is conflicting information as to how many weapons or grenades were taken from the armory.

People who live in Cananea tell Fox 11 News that the entire community is locked down and fearful.

The Mexican military has reportedly surrounded both Cananea and the border town of Aqua Prieta, across from Douglas, Arizona. There are unconfirmed reports the same people who attacked the armory near Cananea are headed toward Aqua Prieta.

A free-lance reporter who covers the border says that today's attack raises to thirty the number of police officers who have been killed in apparent drug-related violence in Sonora this year.

Fox 11 Photojournalist Ruben Fuentes was born and raised in Cananea. He has talked by telephone with several people there who have confirmed the assault and the deaths.

Violence against police in Mexico has been widespread for years, but has just recently spread to Sonora.

Full details of this still developing story tonight on Fox 11 News at 9.

P.S. I just watched a live report where they said there is currently a gun battle going on with the suspects about an hour south of Cananea. They also said there are now six dead police officer.
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Bring it on Messcans, we're more than ready.

Tello said the attorney general's office knew of no motive for the abduction.

Oh sure.

He's just afraid to talk about it.

I'm just wondering if our own president could be afraid of these people. Maybe that's why he's never been capable of having a really get tough attitude regarding all of this. (illegal immigration, unsecured borders, etc.)

Maybe he thinks that the drug dealers are the REAL DECIDERS for the U.S. so he doesn't want to make them mad.

Any chance this could play a role in his decision-making?

Unfortunately, this is what El Presidente Bush and the traitors we have in the Senate are allowing to come into our country.
These people have now respect for laws, life, and any form of decency.
The third world mentality is to take what I want without remorse and expect no repurcussions.

Posted on Thu, May. 17, 2007

20 killed in gunbattles in north Mexico
By OMAN NEVAREZ
Associated Press Writer
Mexico Violence

HERMOSILLO, Mexico --
Police killed 15 armed assailants in a fierce gunbattle just south of the Arizona border on Wednesday after tracking a group of gunmen who killed five policemen into the nearby hills.

About 40 assailants, whose tactics and weaponry resembled those of Mexico's powerful drug gangs, drove into the town of Cananea, 20 miles south of the U.S. border, in up to 15 vehicles and seized four policemen in two patrol cars, Sonora state police said in a statement.

The bullet-riddled bodies of the four, along with 50 spent cartridges, were found on the side of a road hours later, the statement said.

Sonora state Gov. Eduardo Bours said a total of five policeman were killed in the day's fighting, but did not specify how the fifth officer died.

Three other officers were seized elsewhere. Two were released earlier in the day, and one was freed during the later gunbattle. Three Cananea residents who had also been aducted were freed.

After the initial attack on Cananea, the gunmen fled and tried to hole up in mountainous terrain around the town of Arizpe, about 50 miles to the south.

Police followed the assailants there, engaged in a shootout and killed 15 of the assailants, Bours said. Police seized 15 assault rifles and eight pistols following the hours-long confrontation, the Sonora state government said in a press statement.

Bours declined to speculate on a motive for the killings, but Mexico has seen a wave of attacks on police, military and intelligence officials as the government battles drug trafficking gangs.

President Felipe Calderon has vowed to crack down on Mexico's powerful drug cartels, which are battling for lucrative smuggling routes north, sending 24,000 soldiers and police to violence-plagued states to go after everyone from cartel leaders to growers and dealers.

Meanwhile, in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora state, unidentified assailants on Wednesday tossed a hand grenade from a passing car at the offices of the newspaper Cambio. The device only caused minor damage and no injuries. A similar attack on the newspaper occurred in April.

And authorities in the northern state of Coahuila reported that men disguised as Mexican federal agents had kidnapped the state's chief anti-kidnapping investigator.

Lucio Tello, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office, said Enrique Ruiz Arevalo, director for investigations of kidnapping and organized crime for the agency, has been missing since Monday.

The four kidnappers wore black uniforms with the insignia of the Federal Agency of Investigation, Mexico's equivalent of the FBI, when they grabbed Ruiz Arevalo and another agent in Torreon, 310 miles southwest of the U.S. border at Eagle Pass, Texas.

They released the other agent hours later. Tello said the attorney general's office knew of no motive for the abduction.

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Published: 05.17.2007

20 dead in Sonora shootouts
>> Up to 50 heavily armed men descend on Cananea >> Gunmen abduct 7 cops; 4 of them later killed >> At least 20 die as police, soldiers confront gunmen >> Grenade tossed at office of Hermosillo newspaper
By Lourdes Medrano
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
on Wednesday
• At 12:30 a.m., 2 officers patrolling west of Cananea encounter caravan of gunmen. The officers are beaten and dumped on highway.
• The caravan continues on to Cananea. The officers are able to call ahead to their colleagues and notify them of the approaching convoy.
• Five officers on duty head out to meet the convoy, only to be taken captive. The bodies of four are later found dead.
• At 2 p.m., military units and police confront suspected gunmen in the mountains near Arizpe, Sonora, about 60 miles south of Cananea. Mexican officials say 15 gunmen and five officers are killed.
Other major drug-related killings
While the Mexican government says it does not keep track of drug-related killings, three newspapers in the country estimated earlier this month that 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in "shootouts, decapitations and execution-style killings." Among the victims are law enforcement officials.
Among the dead are:
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Mexican police scour border for drug commandos 1:27 PM CDT

01:27 PM CDT on Thursday, May 17, 2007
By LAURENCE ILIFF / The Dallas Morning News
liliff@dallasnews.com

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities sent additional federal police to a mountainous area near the Sonora-Arizona border on Thursday to search for suspected drug cartel commandos who had fought with state police and army soldiers a day earlier, leaving 15 commandos and at least five officers dead, officials said.

Officers from the Federal Preventative Police, along with a helicopter, were joining the search near the communities of Arizpe and Cananea, about 50 miles southeast of Nogales, where the suspected drug cartel gunmen had scattered, state Attorney General Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez told reporters.

Officials believe that the surviving commandos – perhaps as many as 35 – fled on foot into the mountains, according to coverage of the news conference by the official government news agency Notimex.

The search was called off late Wednesday because the darkness made it too dangerous for security forces, officials said.

Mr. Murrieta Gutiérrez said that a total of five police officers were killed, all of them after being abducted in Cananea by the commando group about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. Two other police officers were badly beaten and released.

Media reports said that as many as seven police officers had been killed, including some in the firefight that began around 3 p.m. Wednesday. Officials and media reports gave conflicting accounts of how many civilians had been abducted by the commandos and how many had been freed.

The state attorney general said the suspected cartel enforcers carried AR-15 assault rifles and wore commando-style uniforms. Two bulletproof vehicles were seized, and officials said that one was carrying 10 assault rifles.

Mr. Murrieta Gutiérrez said that documents found in the vehicles suggested the gunmen were from outside of the state, but he did not say from where.

The commando attack and subsequent firefight marked a significant escalation in the ongoing clash between Mexican security forces and cartel hitmen that has taken 1,000 lives this year, according to a running count by the Mexico City newspaper El Universal.

Wednesday's violence came amid a wave of attacks against government and law enforcement officials.

• The police chief in Apatzingán, Michoacan, José Alfredo Zavala Pérez, resigned Thursday after leaving the hospital for a bullet wound suffered during an assassination attempt by suspected cartel gunmen two days earlier, the government news agency Notimex reported. The town has become a war zone as cartels fight among themselves, with police, and increasingly with the Mexican army.

• In the Texas-Mexico border state of Nuevo León, a dozen people have been abducted by suspected drug cartel gunmen over the last week, including two reporters for the network TV Azteca and at least one police officer in the capital of Monterrey, according to media reports.

• In Torreón, Coahuila, also a Texas border state, the police commander in charge of fighting organized crime and kidnapping was abducted himself on Monday, officials said. "Organized crime" in Mexico includes drug trafficking, human smuggling and prostitution rings.

• In Mexico City, gunmen on Monday assassinated José Nemesio Lugo Félix, a top official in the intelligence unit of the federal attorney general's office.

Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours said that the commando attack Wednesday appeared to be related to a dispute between rival cartels and that some of those involved had come from the Mexico-Texas border state of Tamaulipas. The governor also said he had previously asked for federal help to investigate police officers in Cananea.

Tamaulipas is home to the Gulf cartel and its paramilitary enforcement arm, the Zetas. The Gulf cartel is in a fierce turf war with the Sinaloa cartel, based on the Pacific Coast.

Mr. Bours said a convoy of 10 to 15 vehicles involved in Wednesday's attack had traveled about 180 miles across the state without being detected until the group was just a few miles from its target: the mining town of Cananea.

The information we have is that they [the gunmen] took a federal highway, which is worrisome," said Mr. Bours. "In fact, we had information that we tried to check with the Federal Preventative Police, and the Federal Preventative Police said there were no reports from last night, all of which we are going to investigate."

In Cananea, truckloads of state and federal police were in the streets but few average citizens after the attack Wednesday, said Michael Marizco, editor of borderreporter .com, who spoke by telephone from the scene.

"People seem terrified, the police are scared, they're sitting in the back of their trucks with machine guns in their hands and the civilians are staying inside their houses," said Mr. Marizco, whose Web site is dedicated to news and analysis from the Sonora-Arizona border.

A man who answered the telephone at the Cananea police station and identified himself as a police officer said the early morning attack was sudden.

"We didn't know where they came from," he said.
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