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Posted on 06/12/2010 9:02:23 AM PDT by AuntB
CASA GRANDE, AZ - Two men shot earlier this week could be the result of the ongoing battle between Mexican drug cartels now spilling over deep into Arizona, officials say.
Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico's border to metro Phoenix.
The area , once an area for family hiking and off road vehicles has government signs warning residents of the drug and human smugglers.
Night vision cameras have photographed military armed cartel members delivering drugs to vehicles along Highway 8.
"We are three counties deep. How is it that you see pictures like these, not American with semi and fully automatic rifles. How is that okay?" asked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.
Babeu said he no longer has control over parts of his county.
"We are outgunned, we are out manned and we don't have the resources here locally to fight this," he said at a Friday news conference.
Five weeks ago Deputy Louie Puroll was ambushed and shot as he tracked six drug smugglers.
Sheriff Babeu said the ambush mirrored military tactics.
Even more disturbing, Babeu said the man who called in to 911 operators for help seemed to know a lot about the sheriff deputy's case.
"He told operators they could find him where the deputy was shot and talked about our search helicopter. Things that were talked about on the news," Babeu said.
When operators asked the fatally wounded man how he knew the area, he claimed he sold cantelope near mile post 150.
Both men were found dead several hours later.
Detectives say next to them was a Bushmaster automatic rifle used by police officers for patrolling. It does not appear to be stolen.
Investigators also revealed that an autopsy showed strap marks on one of the men that likely came from hauling heavy loads, they suspect were drugs.
One of the men, deputies say, was voluntarily deported seven times.
Babeu said he doesn't believe the drug cartel problems will not be solved when SB 1070 becomes a law, or with President Obama's promise of 1,200 troops spread out among four border states.
"It will fall short. What is truly needed in 3,000 soldiers for Arizona alone," Babeu said.
It’s time for some patriot vigilantism.
Guess daddy won’t be plugging that hole anytime soon either.
FED GOV, the Constitution requires you to defend our border!
THANK YOU JORGE BUSHO FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THIS MESS!!! AND NO KUDOS WOULD BE COMPLETE W/OUT ALSO INCLUDING YOU, YOU FAT PIECE OF SLIME WM. J. KLINTOON!!!
I expect Zero to do.... zero. An armed invasion of our country by criminals delivering harmful/illegal substances to our children and TOTUS vacations while the US burns. Evil SOB. Bush didn’t do much better.
And we’d have to add GHWBush, Reagan (yup, even him), Carter, Ford...
...hell, the last one to actually DO anything about the situation was Ike!
The FIRST thing Arizona needs to do is get rid of John McCain and his open border buddies...this from his hispanic outreach man.
Here’s just one clip of Juan Hernandez on TV during the Prez race of 2008.
HERNANDEZ: I don’t think that we need to build walls to control immigration. We are the 21st century now and we’re a country that has always broken down walls. Once again with regard to securing the borders, we need to work with Mexico. We’re never going to have a secure border. We’re not going to put a wall up for these hundreds and hundreds thousands of miles. We have to work with our neighbors. We need to think now for the future. Canada, the United States and Mexico as a block.
“We’re never going to have a secure border.”
PAY attention to that quote! McCain has NO intention of securing the border no matter what he says today!
“We are three counties deep. How is it that you see pictures like these, not American with semi and fully automatic rifles. How is that okay?” asked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.
Well, if we repealed the laws that prohibit full-auto firearm ownership by Joe Sixpack and allowed him to get a bounty reward for every Mexican killed or captured alive you wouldn’t see any illegals making a run for our border.
So Ike was the last one to do anything about our border security? Wow! It has been quite a while since his administration.
If Palin was elected to the POTUS would she be another Ike and take care of this problem to the point if it meant all out war with the Mexican government, the Mexican drug lords, and the Muslim terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hizb-allah that are firmly ensconced within Mexico?
Tough laws concerning the selling of any drugs in Arizona should be in place under Capitol Punishment....drugs are as lethal as stabbing or shooting someone. Arizona should take the lead in this crime treating it as a lethal commission. As for the addicted, they will just have to move somewhere else.....those who have no stomach for cleaning up this state should also go somewhere else or at least keep their whimpering to themselves.
I think a MARINE MEU could use some live fire training, say in AZ?
Sure. Let Uncle Sucker pay for the trip home to get more drugs. Insane.
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“We are three counties deep."
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Babeu said he no longer has control over parts of his county.
“We are outgunned, we are out manned and we don’t have the resources here locally to fight this,” he said at a Friday news conference.
We will end up fighting them ourselves here in AZ. Obama is not going to do $hit. We all know it.
What an absolute shock!
Here's a suggestion. Turn the Arizona National Guard on them with orders to use deadly force to clear out every single rats nest they can find.
Does anyone have pictures of the warning signs about drug smuggling activities in AZ? We did see one in our travels, but I didn’t get a picture.
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