Posted on 06/30/2007 6:36:01 PM PDT by Ladycalif
SAN DIEGO -- A June 8 kidnapping in Chula Vista is raising fears that brazen crimes related to drug cartels south of the border are making their way north. Federal authorities rescued the victim earlier this month and took five people into custody, but are being especially closed-mouth about the crime because of its possible connection to drug traffickers, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
The house where the man was held for eight days is about a mile from where Mexican-drug-trafficking suspects shot at a Chula Vista police officer in 2005 and about 3 miles from where a body was found dumped that same year, also suspected to be the work of Mexican drug groups. Federal agents say investigators have been tracking a series of unusual crimes around the South Bay in which the primary suspects are former members of the Tijuana-based Arellano FTlix cartel. The renegade group, apparently seeking vengeance, has been kidnapping and killing suspected Arellano members north of the border in recent years, sources told The Union-Tribune. Relatives of the 32-year-old man kidnapped June 8 paid $200,000 in ransom, and FBI agents rescued him June 16, the newspaper reported. Growing numbers of wealthy Baja California residents, including some of the gated community where the kidnapped man was held, are living north of the border for safety reasons, the Union-Tribune reported. Some who live in San Diego County are business owners who have been kidnapped in Mexico because they have money. Others are involved in drug trafficking, the newspaper reported.
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Sometimes you wonder if someone in Washington wants the drugs to come in.
Is it any surprise? The borders are effectively still WIDE OPEN. The Mexicans realize that, and they know it won’t be closed ANYTIME soon, until the White House has a pro-American soverignty, pro-law, pro-citizen resident. In the meantime, things are ugly. The only solution remains a FENCE that will STOP flow. And re-flow. And terrorists. And gangs and drug merchants. At every opportunity, remind your elected officials that criminals do not obey laws — that is why they are criminals. Especially laws that are NOT ENFORCED.
The solution is obvious. Has been for a long time. And so has the problem that prevents the solution.
Exactly. That’s why they don’t want to build the physical fence, it will be “too effective” . The “virtual” fence is easily defeated and controlled. A physical fence works too good , and would greatly reduce illegals and drug flow , which many of our agencies depend on for survival .
If problems get solved , huge bureaucracies are no longer needed, and you know they can’t have that.
But, but, but, El Presedente Boosh has said there is no border problem. I think you must be racist norte american who does not share the wealth with poor people who just want to do the drug running americans don’t want to do. Shame, shame. But the joke is on you because Boosh is working night and day to make all norte america one country with no more of these stupid borders.
The aliens are smuggling the drugs Americans won’t smuggle. /sarcasm
All illegals, regardless of occupation, should have been deported yesterday.
If Americans want to buy Mexican meth to f-ck up their life, however, why should I care?
I believe they have long since moved as far north as Washington, DC. The reluctance of our government to do anything substantial to control drug traffic and other criminal enterprises on the border shows that they are influenced directly or indirectly by the criminals. Did I say "on the border?" The Mexican criminal enterprise has spread throughout the country. Look at the Senators who supported continuing the Mexican criminal activity.
The drug cartels in both Mexico and San Diego are major problems.
Murders, beheadings, kidnappings for starters.
Most folks have no clue what is really going on.
One of many reason we need the Border Fence now.
"Why would I want to close the border? Don't all firefighters light fires to drum up business?"
My brother owned a ranch right on the border. Illegal immigrants, drugs, violence, crime of all types were a BIG problem.
I went on an all expense paid trip to Cancun a few years back......wow, what a deal right?
There were eight execution style murders very close to our hotel the four days we were there. Noticed it in the papers down there but I don’t speak spanish so I didn’t find out the details until I arrived home.
Eight officers, hog tied with plastic bags over their heads and shot from behind. How nice.
I’ll never go back to Mexico.
Remember Mena.
Not just “possibly” - they’re here.
With the huge encouragement they got from the persecution of our own Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, by the relentless Johnny Sutton, there are effectively NO barriers to these drug runners operating openly.
The dam is broken, and nobody in authority seems to be the least alarmed.
Apparently, these are “acceptable losses”.
What constitutes “unacceptable”?
Me either.
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