Mexico feeling the pinch as Remittances from the US to Mexico fall and the value of the peso declines

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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.


Saturday 2/28/09



El Financiero (Mexico City) 2/27/09



Authorities in Baja California arrested Dennis Brian Gluck, one of the most wanted in the US. Gluck was on a US Marshals list of fugitives thought to be hiding in Mexico. The list had only been issued 48 hours before he was arrested in Ensenada. He is wanted for the murder of his parents in California in January.

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Mexican federal agents arrested two more municipal police in Ixtapalucz, state of Mexico, for their presumed involvement in organized crime and kidnapping. The two became part of an ongoing investigation that also includes the recently arrested mayor, Mario Moreno Conrado and the City Attorney, Silvia Lopez Herrera.

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El Debate (Sinaloa) 2/27/09



The Mexican military seized $3,645,400 US and arrested five people at the international airport in Culiacan, Sinaloa. One of those arrested was the pilot of the plane transporting the money. The arrests were made as the suspects were transferring the bundles of money in plastic bags from a plane to an armored van with commercial markings. A reader commenting to this story identified himself as a banking employee and suggested caution in the investigation since “because of insecurity in the state, bonds and securities companies are making the transfer of money between cities by air.â€