[SwinneySwitch]

Paging, Glenn Beck!

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[P8riot]

These kidnappings really concern me, specially since my in-laws are currently driving back to the states from Mexico so that Dad can have cataract surgery. They have been missionaries in southern Mexico since 1959, and make the border crossing every couple of years.

[mewzilla]

From 2005....

Kidnapping, Murder Sweep Nuevo Laredo (41 Americans go missing)

[squarebarb]

Thank you Swinney Switch, for keeping us all up on this, much appreciated.

I am also from Texas and I know where Swinney Switch is!

I wish this would make national news but they seem to want to pretend that either we are not part of America or we deserve anything we get.

[DaGman]

"Luckily, the family made the decision to call rapidly enough that we could get some people in place to make some arrests," he said. "A lot of times, by the time they make the decision to call us, we're so far behind the curve … it gives the kidnappers time to escape."

I talked to a guy in the McAllen area this week who was a victim of a home invasion 2 weeks ago. He got beat up pretty bad. He said that when the police came they told him it was the drug cartels fighting each other and that there probably wasn't much they could do. He also said that the word is getting around the Valley that the police are starting to intentionally wait 30 minutes or so before responding to home invasion calls or even kidnappings because they want to get there after the perps are long gone to minimize any risk. Don't know if that's true or not, but that's what people around the Valley are starting to say.