4 more suspects held in Mexico border attack that killed 19

AP via SFgate ^ | 6/24/21

[Libloather]

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities said Thursday they have arrested four more suspects in the weekend shootings in the northern Mexico border city of Reynosa that killed 19 people, 15 of whom appeared to be innocent bystanders.

Another suspect was detained earlier after being wounded during the apparently random gun attacks Saturday.

Prosecutors in the border state of Tamaulipas said the latest arrests came during raids that also freed 18 kidnap victims, four of whom are believed to be U.S. citizens.

In one raid on a house east of Reynosa, police found 10 kidnap victims, two of them Americans. One man had ben abducted three weeks ago and was still being held even though relatives had paid a ransom for his release, authorities said.

A U.S. woman and her 3-year-old daughter from Edinburgh, Texas, were found in a raid on another house. They had been kidnapped when they entered Mexico to search for the woman's husband, who had disappeared earlier.

The other 14 kidnap victims were Mexican citizens, ranging from nurses and an engineer to store and business employees, prosecutors said.

[Libloather]

I believe this came out one day before Horizontal's border visit. Don't recall if she ever mentioned it.

[17th Miss Regt]

Can’t you just feel the vibrancy?

[spudville]

And the diversity

[eastexsteve]

Why would people want to leave such a wonderful place? Why do so many people want to vacation there? We need all that enchantment over on our side of the border. It would appear the Biden administration is doing everything it can to make this happen.

[BwanaNdege]

Back in 2002, my company’s NY headquarters wanted to move our entire NC based department to Reynosa to “save money”. At that time I pointed out that in addition to the move saving little in salary costs, there was the danger of the cartels kidnapping and/or demanding protecting money.

Thankfully, they just closed that product line and laid everyone off.