Posted on 05/01/2010 5:51:51 AM PDT by expat_panama
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| This massive confiscation of weapons shows that the region continues to be a bridge for the transfer of weapons. |
Experts estimate that the arsenal, which may have originated from Central America, is quoted at more than $1 million on the black market.
The police commissioner of Chiriquí, David Ramos, said the teacher was taken into custody and that further investigations will reveal whether or not there are other individuals involved.
The seizure was made possible thanks to Operation Compa, composed of the National Police, the Narcotics Affairs Section, and the Judicial Investigation Department, with the support of the Public Prosecutions Office, which invested several months of research, surveillance, and monitoring in this case.
According to Ramos, the weapons had been in Chiriquí for some time, and were being stored in a room or bunker specially built for this type of arsenal. “While the weapons appear to be old, given the manufacture date, they are still active," said the commissioner.
Among the weapons seized include AK-47 ammunition, 250 Russian fragmentation grenades, 13 blocks of TNT, 60 packs of TNT, 186 60-caliber mortar rounds, 100 RPG grenades, 24 AK-47 sub-machine guns, and 47 AK-47 assault rifles.
A ton and a half of military weapons, considered the largest seizure executed in the country, was seized yesterday morning at the home of a Nicaraguan professor of sociology (University Panama David) in the El Francés area south of Boquete,
My bet is that these arms were shipped here by the Ortega/Chavez/Castro gang and the bills were probably paid by China/Iran. The next question is how big is the cache they haven't found yet.
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But I thought they got their weapons at the walmart in texas???
Has there ever been a "sociology professor" who was NOT a freakin' commie radical?
Is this the villa I was buying? The seller assured me that the bunker comes with the rest of the property.
My friend was professor of sociology at Carolina and he retired as Professor Emeritus and still exists a conservative
He is however, the exception to the rule.
No, iirc the one you were looking at had the tank traps.
My socProf was a conservative too, but that was a looong time ago....
When the class won't sit quietly, the prof sometimes fires an AK-47 into the air.
Containers went in.... this is merely skim for sale or service of local accounts.
LOL! —and nobody in the next room hears anything becuase it’s a class in rock-throwing/traffic-blocking!
“...The police commissioner ... said the teacher was taken into custody
and that further investigations will reveal
whether or not there are other individuals involved...”
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It’s pretty obvious to me, commissioner.
Time will tell. I'd really want to believe that we're looking at old left-over's from decades ago, but Obama just set Noriega free.
Coincidence?
What the H... is a 60 caliber mortar round? Is it anything like a 60mm mortar round?
I have no doubt they came from the Chavez/Ortega/Castro/Obama cabal, but where were they headed? To Marxists in Honduras and Colombia, or the to US?
This makes my skin crawl.
Any ideas as to where and against whom they were going to be used?
And as stated, how many more are still hidden?
I haven’t been out yet to buy the paper, so this has taken me by surprise.
Also, Don Winner dosn’t have anything on his blog yet.
dosn’t = doesn’t
The story just came out this morning so you know everything that I do. My wife and I are planning on checking out the new road from Volcan to Boquete and I'll let you know if I come across any new rumors. Remember that Noriega's from Chiriqui and that Torrijos started his coup here. That, and a few years ago when the were expanding the David airport they accidentally dug up a mass grave.
Maybe I need to go hide under my bed for a while. Say, a year or two?
Probably. The words 'mm' and caliber get mixed up a lot when they sell sheet metal too.
Serial and id numbers talk!
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