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Cops Implicated In Mass Murders (Juarez Mexico)
7AM.com MS news ^
| 2:42 am PST, 30 January 2004
Posted on 01/31/2004 8:03:59 PM PST by Travis McGee
Cops Implicated In Mass Murders 2:42 am PST, 30 January 2004
Thirteen Mexican police officers have been arrested and flown to Mexico City in connection with the killings of 11 men found in a mass grave in the northern border city of Juarez.
But the attorney general, Rafael Macedo de la Concha, is already conceding that four other officers, including State Police Commander, Migual Angel Loya, are fugitives from justice. Mr. Loya failed to show up for work on Monday, and has not been seen since.
Mexican authorities estimate the killings happened about a year ago, and say they are directly connected to the notorious Vicente Carillo Drug Cartel, which operates throughout this region.
They say a bloody internal power struggle is raging, following the arrest of a number of senior drug cartel operatives.
The mass grave was discovered near a house last weekend. A man who rented the house, who was caught trying to flee to the United States, has admitted to murdering some of the men and burying them, on orders from the cartel. He has also implicated some state police officers, and explained that there are more bodies to be found.
Agents of the attorney general's office are searching other locations for more mass graves. Local families have indicated that more than 90 people have been reported missing.
Over the last decade, more than 200 young women have been murdered in and around the city of Juarez, which skirts the border with the United States. Little progress has been achieved in the overall investigation, and last year Mexican President Vicente Fox removed overall jurisdiction for the investigation from local and state police and put federal agents in charge.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cartel; corruption; donutwatch; mexico; murder; police; policecoprruption
To: Sabertooth; JackelopeBreeder; FITZ; dennisw; Zipporah; hollywood; onyx; Marine Inspector; ...
Mexican police, in action as drug cartel enforcers and killers.
Again.
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:07:53 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: majhenrywest
Border ping.
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:11:11 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
Damned pit, ain't it?
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:11:27 PM PST
by
patton
(I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
To: Travis McGee
well.... why am I not surprised?
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:13:48 PM PST
by
GeronL
(www.ArmorforCongress.com ............... Support a FReeper for Congress)
To: Travis McGee
"four other officers, including State Police Commander, Migual Angel Loya, are fugitives from justice. Mr. Loya failed to show up for work on Monday, and has not been seen since".
Showed up Monday working at Wal Mart in the US, probably.
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:23:41 PM PST
by
tbird5
To: tbird5
He's probably moonlighting at his better paying job, as security for illegal alien and narcotics smuggling rings.
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:25:39 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
Mexico will never change. I am convinced corruption is a way of life for the "privileged." Handed down from law enforcement generation to generation. Cops and robbers: one in the same too damned often.
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:34:17 PM PST
by
onyx
(Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.)
To: onyx
One of my last ancestors to leave europe is alternatively described as a "baronial ruffian," and a "robber baron."
Been there, done that, got the castle. Do we want to do this again?
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:38:53 PM PST
by
patton
(I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
To: Travis McGee
Sounds like another day in the Mexican Federal Police.
Corrupt, corrupt and corrupt.
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posted on
01/31/2004 8:48:16 PM PST
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
To: The South Texan; onyx; patton
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posted on
01/31/2004 9:29:16 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: archy
Gracias por el linko.
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posted on
01/31/2004 9:46:49 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: patton
My grandfather was born in Coronado, CA when it was still Tent City. Mexico (Tijuana) was corrupt back then BEFORE the turn of last century.
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posted on
01/31/2004 11:30:06 PM PST
by
onyx
(Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.)
To: onyx
Did you read the other (sex slave) thread?
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posted on
02/01/2004 12:17:25 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
Not yet. I saw your ping. I'm going there shortly.
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posted on
02/01/2004 12:24:10 AM PST
by
onyx
(Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.)
To: Travis McGee
If they stop with just these 13 arrests then you know this is nothing but a sham. This goes much higher than a few night shift cops in the Judiciales. They've got to arrest some high up politicians and government officials before I'll believe this is serious.
As far as the cops being this corrupt --- anyone could have told you long before these 11 bodies were found. But it's far more than some corrupt cops.
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posted on
02/01/2004 12:30:30 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: FITZ
Even if they arrest some high up pols and govt officials it won't mean anything. They do that every 10 or 15 years as window dressing, and at the same time to eliminate rival and enemies.
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posted on
02/01/2004 12:38:18 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
True --- it can't be some. They'd pretty much have to arrest them all. In a town like Juarez, they'd have to arrest pretty much every wealthy Mexican. That's not going to happen. Drug trafficking and all the other crimes by these organized criminals brings in far more money to Mexico than the dollars the farmworkers send back.
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posted on
02/01/2004 12:59:55 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: Travis McGee
bttt
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posted on
02/01/2004 7:46:00 AM PST
by
Marine Inspector
(Tancredo for President 2004 / Russell Pearce for Congress 2004)
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