Nuevo Laredo and Laredo are connected by four bridges.
Posted on 03/17/2006 7:52:46 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
NUEVO LAREDO - Just days after arriving here to help reinforce government efforts to stop the drug war raging on the border, four federal agents were shot dead in the middle of the afternoon on Avenida Guerrero. The agents never had a chance, observers said. At least one officer was armed, but didn't have time to pull his weapon.
Calls came into C-4, the city's emergency headquarters, at about 2:25 p.m., with reports that gunfire had broken out on Avenida Guerrero between Venustiano Carranza and 5 de Febrero streets. Several people were reported to be dead in a vehicle.
State police and officers from several other agencies descended on the scene to find a gray Ford Focus with four people inside, all dead in their seats.
Víctor Almanza, the state police agent on duty, immediately ordered state police to secure the area. Investigators found at least 30 shell casings from an AK-47 in the area surrounding the vehicle.
According to one source, the four victims were among the hundreds of PFP agents, known by the Spanish initials of the agency, who arrived Tuesday by air after federal and state officials meeting in Nuevo Laredo on Monday vowed to redouble their efforts to take back control of the city streets.
The name of the driver was not released Thursday; he was carrying no identification. The other three victims in the afternoon shooting had IDs, and their names were released by authorities.
Enrique Morán Delgado, 45, of Torreón, Coahuila, was sitting next to the driver and was found slumped over in his seat.
Luis Antonio Palacios Tepox, believed to be between 30 and 35, was in the backseat, behind Morán Delgado. Palacios Tepox was armed with a 9 mm pistol and had two fully loaded clips.
The fourth victim, who was sitting behind the driver, was identified as Guillermo Rodríguez, 35, of Azcapotzalco, in the state of México.
Almanza ordered the bodies taken to a local funeral home for the autopsy required by law in all homicide cases.
No arrests had been made as of late Thursday, and no witnesses had come forward publicly.
The four deaths were not the only homicides reported in the Sister City after a spate of virtually violence- free days since last week.
At about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, a 16-year-old boy died after he was shot five times near his home in the Victoria neighborhood, close to the intersection of 20 de Noviembre and Hidalgo streets.
Mario Alberto Puga Pacheco was identified by his mother, Magdalena Pacheco Méndez, 39.
State police arrived to find that Puga Pacheco had been taken to Hospital General in a private vehicle. At the scene, officers found five .45-caliber shell casings underneath a truck parked on the street and another shell casing about 3 feet down the street.
The young man was shot once in the neck area, twice on the left side near his abdomen, once in the right thigh and once in the buttocks. Officials were unable to interview him because he was already in surgery when they arrived.
Puga Pacheco died at the hospital of his injuries at about 10 p.m.
Almanza, who was also on duty Wednesday night, ordered that the boy's body be taken to a local funeral home for an autopsy.
No arrests have been made in the teen death case, either.
The last death before these five was the director of C-4, Ramiro Tellez Contreras, who was shot dead as he was leaving his home the morning of Friday, March 10, for his second job as a radio news announcer.
The deaths on Wednesday and Thursday make at least 48 people who have died violently in Nuevo Laredo since the start of the year, more than twice the number who died during the same period last year.
And our nice U.S. senate plans to give amnesty to all the mexican murderers that would like to have U.S. citizenship.
I take it these were Mexican Federales not Americans........
Hmmm. Now who could it possibly be?
Well, they wanted a war and they got one. Happy?
There, fixed.
I suspect even if they were Americans our government elites would look the other way. They don't seem to mind Mexican military incursions into our country, why would they worry about the other?
Los dos Laredos Ping!
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HMMMM! How could this be???? Simple possession of AK-47s (and all other "military use" weapons) and even all ammo that can be used in "military" style firearms - including the .45 cal mentioned - have been banned in Mexico for a long time!
Surely, Mexican gun control laws have worked better than this incident seems to protray. /s
Yes, because we need diversity and multiculturalism among our citizen criminal element ;-)
If these had been American Feds on our side of the border, would the MSM even cover it, or cover it up?........
My tagline says it all!
And our internationalist elites (including Presidente Jorge Arbusto) are pushing ahead full speed to create the "North American Community," with one common border around Mexico, America and Canada.
Ain't this great?
Bienvenidos a Amexica. Te quieres plomo, o plata?
Nuevo Laredo is only what, A MILE from Laredo Texas ?
These animals will be offered amnesty by our Senators next week.
MILE???
The Rio (not) Grande is about 200 yards wide there IIRC.
"Nuevo Laredo is only what, A MILE from Laredo Texas ?"
Actually they're not really seperated. The city has existed under 7 soverign governments - sometimes as one city, sometimes as two. It's not too different than the way Cincinatti and Covington operate with each being on different sides of the Ohio River. Since, 911 - and the escalation of drug violence, there has been a greater seperation and far fewer border crossings in each direction.
This has become a serious situation. The rampant violence on the Mexican side has hastened people's desire to abandon Mexico and seek safety and opportunity in the US - even if they have to swim a river and walk a desert to get here.
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