Thread: MULTIPLE RANCHES IN LAREDO, TX TAKEN OVER BY LOS ZETAS

Unbelievable! Where is the Webb County Sheriff's Office on this? If these are ranches, they aren't inside the city of Laredo and would fall into County jurisdiction.

Heh, about 10 minutes ago, the examiner had in big bold letters that this was not confirmed yet. They've now taken that "not confirmed" off and state it has been confirmed by 2 separate sources within the Laredo Police Department. As of yet, no major news network even in Laredo has picked up this story. How much you wanna bet the news media sweeps this under the rug like every other illegal alien story.

Officials know nothing of rumored Zeta standoff on Mines Road

By Nick Georgiou
Laredo Morning Times
Published: Saturday, July 24, 2010 5:38 PM CDT
Local law enforcement was bombarded with calls from across the country Saturday asking about a report that the Zetas had taken over two ranches off Mines Road.

But officials with the Laredo Police Department, Webb County Sheriff’s Department and Border Patrol said they knew nothing about such an incident, while Erik Vasys, an FBI spokesman in San Antonio, said the agency does not comment on rumors.

The report, which spread like wildfire among blogs Saturday afternoon, appears to have initially been posted on a blog called Diggers Realm.

The blogger wrote that he got a tip from a San Diego, Calif., minuteman named Jeff Schwilk, who said that the Zetas, former enforcers of the Gulf Cartel, had crossed into the United States and taken over two ranches off Mines Road, about 10 miles northwest of Interstate 35.

Quoting Schwilk, the blogger wrote that there was a standoff between “the unknown size Zeta forces and the U.S. Border Patrol and local law enforcement on two ranches …â€

I'm still looking for a major news network to pick this story up. The examiner isn't known for being thorough. We should have a better idea of what's going on tomorrow.