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Men Arrested with $4 Million in Cash at Mexican Airport
CANCUN, Mexico – Two Mexicans were arrested by authorities at the international airport in this resort city when they tried to fly to Colombia carrying more than $4 million in cash, the director of international affairs for Mexico’s customs service said.
At the inauguration of the 5th Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting & Piracy, Jose Padilla told the press that the arrest took place Monday, and that the suspects were traveling on a flight from Guadalajara that touched down in Cancun before leaving for Cali, Colombia.
The customs agents detected the passengers who were traveling on a Copa Airlines plane with two suitcases full of U.S. dollars.
Those under arrest, identified as Hugo Francisco Acosta Rodriguez and Omar Oswaldo Gonzalez, were carrying an undeclared total of $4,113,600 in cash.
Padilla said that the suspects are being held at a local lockup of the Mexican Attorney General’s Office under a strong security guard that includes soldiers of the Mexican army, since they could be involved in drug trafficking.
Recent months have seen several large seizures of cash en route from Mexico to Colombia, source of the cocaine that Mexican cartels smuggle into the United States
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348321&CategoryId=14091
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Corrupt Cop Turned State’s Witness Slain in Mexico
MEXICO CITY – A former high-ranking federal police officer who agreed to testify against the drug traffickers who paid him off was gunned down Tuesday in the Mexican capital, authorities told Efe.
They identified the victim as Edgar Enrique Bayardo Del Villar, who worked until late 2008 as a police inspector for the federal Public Safety Department.
Bayardo was killed around 11:30 a.m. at a Starbucks in Mexico City’s Del Valle district.
As a protected federal witness, Bayardo was usually accompanied by bodyguards, but it remains unclear whether his escorts were with him at the time of the shooting.
Bayardo turned state’s witness almost immediately after he was arrested in October 2008 on accusations that he worked for Jesus “El Rey” (The King) Zambada, a top figure in the Pacific drug cartel.
Within days of his arrest, authorities busted two senior police officers – one of them a close associate of Bayardo – for protecting drug shipments that passed through the capital’s international airport.
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http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348319&CategoryId=14091
Not much going on in Mexico that is legitimate, so many areas where people grow crops to eat also feature lots of pot and other drug fields.
My wife was from the middle of Mexico and she says drugs are cultivated everywhere and the people have a disconnect regarding the damage to others they are doing.
They want their money, alcohol and parties.
I don’t want my wife visiting there. I figure she could easily be kidnapped or worse.
The country really sucks right now.
There is also a massive drought going on, so no food to eat or as many drug crops to cash in on right now.
It’s a nightmare, those buying supplies for food could find themselves dead as others want to take their supplies.
It all sucks IMO.
Oh how awful...
Obviously, these narcotics problems in Mexico have arisen due to our stubborn refusal to grant a blanket amnesty to the lawbreaking weasels who manage to slither into the United States for the commission of crimes and to drop some more anchor babies. All future Rat voters, to be sure.
No Country for Old Men.
The Mexicans caught carrying all that cash to columbia were probably trying to immigrate to a country that isn’t so violent.