6 Bodies Found After Tijuana Shootout
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Soldiers, state and local police were sent in to help control the three-hour shootout that began when federal agents prepared to raid a house in a Tijuana neighborhood near the U.S. border.
Earlier, Baja California state attorney general Rommel Moreno said in a news release that one assailant was killed and four police wounded in the shootout, that comes amid a surge in violence across the border from San Diego.
Already this week, gunmen shot and killed eight people in Tijuana, including two local police officers, as well as a district commander, his wife and his 12-year-old daughter.
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Mexico has seen a spike in gang-related killings since the beginning of the year. The Mexican government has described the violence as revenge for President Felipe Calderon’s year-old crackdown on organized crime that sent thousands of soldiers and federal police into violence-plagued cities nationwide.
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[Editor’s Note: A video of this shootout is available at YouTube here, accompanied by a Spanish-language narrative.]
(Posted on January 21, 2008)
Federal Cop Dies After Shootout
Sandra Dibble, Union-Tribune (San Diego), January 19, 2008
A federal police officer has died after participating in Thursday’s raid on a house where authorities found the bodies of six alleged victims of the Arellano Félix drug cartel.
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The three-hour gunbattle involved hundreds of federal, state and municipal agents, as well as members of the military. No nearby residents were injured, but a kindergarten and day-care center were evacuated, and neighbors were left shaken.
Three other police officers—two federal and one municipal—were wounded but are expected to live, Pérez said.
The Baja California Attorney General’s Office yesterday issued a statement saying it was continuing to work on identifying the victims, who were found gagged, blindfolded and shot in the head. Some have suggested that the six men may have been kidnapping victims being held for ransom.
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Four other men who were captured at the house have been turned over to federal organized-crime investigators. One was a municipal police officer identified as Juan José Díaz. The others are Antonio Martínez Zarzoza, Carlos Alberto Espinoza Vega and Román Gámez Osuna. The latter initially identified himself as a member of the Baja California ministerial police, but that was untrue, authorities said.
Comments
Other versions of this story have the Mexican authorities blaming guns from north of the border. (As if the guns tempted totally innocent Mexicans to become drug gangsters.) There’s an easy and obvious solution. Border wall.
Posted by St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister at 9:08 PM on January 21
More here:
“U.S. Faces ‘Grave Threat’ in Drug Fight”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080121/NATION/529346712/1002
Posted by Felix at 10:21 PM on January 21
North American Union with this disfunctional Narco State? Whatever you say El Presidente, Senators and Congressman.
Posted by Bobby at 10:29 PM on January 21
I live about 20 miles from this slaughter on my South and then up a bit North there is the huge now Mexican dominated LA - sounds bad, but the reality is I feel much better much safer than being around millions of hostile Blacks. There are next to no Blacks now in Northern Mexico, Southern California. As for the Mexican cartels:
1) People smuggling into USA - bad, very bad.
2) Drug smuggling into bad, very bad - but if folks what to smoke pot, not that bad.
3) Mexican cartels run legal prostitution in T.J. - good very, very good.
If we do lose out to the Mexicans everyone should understand that Black hate Whitey mobs, gangs are going to be taken down, driven away and we will have much less problems with feminists, no sex culture of post industrial White cultures.
Posted by JR at 3:59 PM on January 22
In fact that Mexico have high murder rate that make Mexico is 5th in the world. United States and Canada are lowest murder rate than Mexico. What you think good idea to have North America Union. huh ………
Posted by james at 2:27 AM on January 23
Mexico is like a bad, crazy neighbor whose unwanted teenage kids keep jumping over the fence to camp out in our yard and deal drugs.
Posted by at 1:33 PM on January 23