Posted on 03/07/2008 10:35:36 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Soldiers seized assault rifles, grenades, marijuana and bulletproof vests bearing police insignia after a brief shootout in the Mexican border city of Tijuana.
No one was wounded in the overnight exchange of fire with three suspects hunkered down in a house in La Mesa district, army Gen. Sergio Aponte Polito told reporters Friday.
Troops seized 91 assault rifles — some with butts of gold and ivory — along with 18 grenades, the bulletproof vests and more than 880 pounds of marijuana, Aponte Polito said. The three suspects, aged 25 to 33, were arrested.
The bust followed weeks of bloody confrontations along the U.S.-Mexico border between Mexican security forces and alleged drug cartel gunmen.
On Tuesday, army troops fought a seven-hour gunbattle with suspects who were hiding in a house in an upscale neighborhood of Tijuana.
When soldiers finally stormed the house, one person was found dead and two others were arrested. Several assault rifles, shotguns and police uniforms were also found.
Also Friday, police commander Ricardo Rodriguez was shot dead in a city plaza by gunmen who opened fire with assault rifles from a moving car, state police director Daniel Camarena said.
Rodriguez was killed a day after three mutilated bodies were dumped outside the offices of the federal Attorney General's office in Oaxaca.
And in the border state of Tamaulipas, soldiers arrested six police officers who allegedly received payoffs from members of the Gulf cartel, Mexico's Defense Department said in a statement.
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Not to worry, the governor of Baja is making an appearance in San Diego next week to tell us Mexico is the perfect place to go on spring break.
oh yea, we should all be happy about Amnesty VI from the commie crew in the Senate, we can have those very same family values just gushing over our former border.
Just have to love the taco benders....
And this one from the other day
Troops wage 5-hour gunbattle with Tijuana kidnap-ring suspects
By Sandra Dibble
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
9:46 p.m. March 3, 2008
TIJUANA – A gunbattle between federal troops and members of a suspected kidnapping ring sent residents of a well-to-do neighborhood diving for cover late Sunday and early Monday for more than five hours.
One person died inside a house, where soldiers found an arsenal that included rifles, shotguns, handguns and ammunition and bulletproof vests, ski masks and uniforms with the insignia of various Mexican police agencies. They also found a blue jacket labeled “ICE,” the acronym for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The shooting started when the suspects, barricaded inside the house, began shooting at a group of soldiers patrolling the area, army Col. Sergio Lopez said in a statement Monday evening.
The confrontation was the second extended shootout this year in a residential neighborhood in Tijuana. Soldiers and federal, state and municipal police engaged in a three-hour battle Jan. 17 with men inside a house in the La Mesa district.
The region has suffered a spike in violence in recent weeks, as municipal, state and federal officials have joined against organized crime, and the Mexican military has been taking an increasingly visible role.
The latest shootout shattered the calm of the hillside neighborhood in eastern Tijuana known as Villa Floresta. Residents on the street Calle Jicama said the shooting began about 10 p.m. and ended before daybreak.....
Spring break coming up, I hope non of our kids on vacation get hurt down in that third world hole...
The pics in our paper of that arm pit look like the
street battles in Bagdad a few years ago.
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