Thread: Timeline: A look at violent incidents throughout the area in

Timeline: A look at violent incidents throughout the area in '08
El Paso Times Staff
Article Launched: 05/31/2008 10:20:53 PM MDT


Mexican federal police patrolled the streets of Juárez last week. The violence that officials say is related to drugs has hit a crescendo in recent weeks and has drawn attention from U.S. officials. (Adriane Jaeckle / El Paso Times)

January 2008

Jan. 10: U.S. Attorney's Office announces indictment against Barrio Azteca gang members and says the El Paso-based gang has alliance with Juárez drug cartel.

Jan. 16: Former Juárez director of police Saulo Reyes Gamboa arrested in El Paso on drug-smuggling charges.

Jan. 19: Six bodies of alleged members of a Juárez drug cartel are found buried in the backyard of a Juárez home.

Jan. 20: Juárez police Lt. Julian Chairez Hernandez is fatally shot.

Jan. 21: Juárez police Cmdr. Francisco Ledezma Salazar is gunned down outside his home.

Jan. 22: About 50 Mexican soldiers sent to Juárez to patrol streets.

Jan. 23: Juárez Cmdr. Fernando Lozano Sandoval of the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency is brought to Thomason Hospital for treatment after surviving a mob-style gunfight. Hospital is put on "lockdown" and guarded by El Paso police.

Jan. 25: More Mexican federal soldiers arrive in Juárez.

Jan. 26-27: Five people, including an 8-year-old girl, are killed in separate incidents on Juárez streets, unleashing a wave of violence.

Jan. 31: Juárez businessmen Fernando Macias Gonzalez and Jesus Duran Uranga are killed in separate incidents.
February


Feb. 1: Thomason Hospital remains on lockdown.

Feb. 2: Three more bodies found on Juárez streets.

Feb. 5: Juárez police Cmdr. Luis Alfonso Rivera Villa and investigative agent Jesus Manuel Garcia Rodriguez are shot to death inside a car.

Feb. 8: Juárez police put on alert after a police officer is shot at.

Feb. 9: 150 additional Mexican soldiers arrive in Juárez.

Feb. 14: Thomason Hospital lockdown lifted.

Feb. 16: 21 alleged Juárez drug cartel members, including five U.S. citizens, are arrested by Juárez police.

Feb. 18: Mexican man wounded in a Palomas street ambush is taken to Thomason. Hospital security remains at normal level.

Feb. 17: Bloody uniform of missing Juárez police Officer Juan Hernández Sánchez is found.

Feb. 20: Juárez police warn of fake military-style checkpoints possibly set up by drug cartels.

Feb. 20: Soldiers detained eight men in Juárez accused of being hit men for theTijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel, or a group known as La LÃ*nea.

Feb. 22: Three more men found slain.

Feb. 23: Another mass grave with unknown number of bodies is found in a Juárez backyard.

Feb. 24: An El Paso Times poll finds 62 percent of El Paso voters believed Juárez violence is spilling over into El Paso; 54 percent say Juárez violence is having an impact on El Paso business; 46 percent of El Paso voters said the U.S. should increase its involvement in Mexico's drug war.

Feb. 27: Juárez police Officer Jose Cruz Cisneros found slain in his car.
March


March 2: Mexican police find another mass grave.

March 3: Juárez police report seven killings in three days.

March 15: Three men shot and killed while riding in a car with Tennessee license plates.

March 17: One man was killed and another wounded in a shooting while they rode in a Jeep Cherokee with Texas plates near a Juárez retail center.

March 19: Members of the Texas House of Representatives' Mexican American Legislative Caucus Border Security Task Force meet in El Paso to address border security concerns.

March 20: Juárez police Officer Oscar Campoya Saucedo gunned down on his way home.

March 19: Three charged in El Paso for attempting to smuggle guns into Juárez.

March 21: Eight more homicides are recorded in Juárez.

March 25: Violent weekend results in 15 homicides, including death of Juárez police Officer Juan Manuel Flores Ruiz.

March 27: More than 2,000 soldiers arrive in Juárez.
April


April 1: Juárez police in masks protest presence of federal police and soldiers.

April 3: Drug cartels purchase "help wanted" ads in Juárez newspapers.

April 4: A senior U.S. counter-drug official in El Paso confirms that the Zetas, a ruthless group of assassins made up of Mexican army deserters, are involved in the war between drug cartels for control of Juárez.

April 4: Mexican army detains 22 employees of the Chihuahua state attorney general's office and the state public safety office as part of operations targeting organized crime.

April 9: Two men found shot to death next to a pickup with Texas plates at a ranch about nine miles from the village of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos across the border from Tornillo.

April 14: U.S. State Department updates its travel alert for Mexico to warn tourists of ongoing border violence, including the current drug war in Juárez.

April 8: Villa Ahumada police commander and seven other men arrested in a daring helicopter raid at a narco-trafficker's funeral at the town's cemetery, about 70 miles south of Juárez.

April 15: FBI confirms that reputed Barrio Azteca gang leader David "Chicho" Meraz found dead last month in Juárez.

April 16: Federal Mexican officers start screening Juárez police officers, looking for evidence of corruption.
May


May 5: A third man wounded in Juárez is brought to Thomason Hospital.

May 6: Off-duty Juárez police Officer Mario Saul Peña Lopez is shot in his car.

May 8: Four El Pasoans shot and wounded outside a Juárez nightclub.

May 9: Gunbattle on the Avenida Juárez tourist strip left two taxi drivers dead and wounded five others, including three bicycle police officers.

May 10: Juárez police director Juan Antonio Roman Garcia shot and killed near his home.

May 11: Five shot and killed in Palomas, across the border from Columbus, N.M.

May 12: Military presence in Juárez expands to 3,000; seven more killed.

May 16: Juárez's top public safety official, Guillermo Prieto Quintana, quits.

May 17: More soldiers arrive; three more killed.

May 18: Prominent nightclub owner Willy Moya is killed outside a bar in the ProNaF area.

May 19: Roberto Orduña Cruz, a retired Mexican army major, is named Juárez public safety director.

May 20: Police report four more killings, including a 14-year-old boy.

May 22: Mass e-mail warns of deadliest weekend yet in Juárez.

May 22: Department of Homeland Security official speaking at a border conference in Austin says U.S. and Mexico should work together to fight drug war.

May 26: Deadly weekend results in 22 deaths.

May 30: Fifteen more bodies turn up in a 48-hour period.

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They are doing the same here, but you don't hear about it.

I don't think anything will wake up America .

Originally Posted by NOamNASTY

They are doing the same here, but you don't hear about it.

I don't think anything will wake up America .

IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY. THERE ARE TOO MANY AMERICANS WITH THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND. THIS IS WHY WE AS A NATION WILL NEVER BE ON THE SAME PAGE AS LONG AS THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE NOT AT ALL CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR OWN COUNTRY. ONE DAY THEY WILL FINALLY WAKE UP AND WHEN THEY DO, ITS GOING TO BE TOO LATE. THIS IS OUR COUNTRY AND WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER AS A NATION AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK ONE STATE AT A TIME. THIS VIOLENCE THAT IS SPILLING ACROSS THE BORDER FROM MEXICO NEEDS THE ATTENTION OF OUR MILITARY.