Posted on 10/10/2010 8:51:54 AM PDT by Ladycalif
(CBS/AP) Mexican news media are reporting that Mexican police officials have identified two persons of interest in connection with the shooting of an American tourist on Falcon Lake, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tamaulipas State Police Commander Juan Carlos Ballesteros told El Universal newspaper on Saturday that authorities believe Juan Pedro Saldivar-Farias and Jose Manuel Saldivar-Farias killed Hartley.
Ballesteros told the paper that the two men are accused in numerous crimes in Mexico, including burning homes, robbing businesses and several homicides.
CBS Affiliate KGBT says it is clear how the men were identified as suspects, and that authorities have not released photographs of them.
On Friday the Mexican government said it had opened a federal investigation into the reported shooting of David Hartley.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
It wouldn’t matter if these Mexican terrorists admit they murdered this American. The open border lobby of Free Republic, who give a pass to Mexico over any US citizen, is alive and well and still blaming the widow! It’s ‘good conservatives’ like this who are really responsible for EVERY death EVERY day of innocent US Citizens.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2604827/posts
****Ballesteros told the paper that the two men are accused in numerous crimes in Mexico, including burning homes, robbing businesses and several homicides.****
How convenient! Why were they not in jail awaiting trial?
“****Ballesteros told the paper that the two men are accused in numerous crimes in Mexico, including burning homes, robbing businesses and several homicides.****
How convenient! Why were they not in jail awaiting trial?”
Mexico doesn’t waste the time or effort to prosecute or jail their criminals. Why bother, when they can just send them all here for us to deal with??
That would be racism to do that!/s
I know a couple that is having a destination wedding in Mexico.....and they wonder why no one, including his mom want to attend the wedding.......
How do I order your book?
I wonder why anybody would be on a ski-jet in on Falcon Lake these days.......................
LOL. Anyone would have to be nuts to attend any wedding/event in that country. Celebrate their wedding...sure. But not at the expense of my safety.
Maybe they should have picked Afghanistan. Maybe Iran. Or how about the West Bank? All lovely destinations......if it were safe to be there.
Name a couple of known criminals and say they are “making progress” will take the pressure off the Mexican government and the Lamestream Media will fall for it. A poor woman loses her husband and the Lamestream media intimates that she did it. Their some sick sob’s if you ask me.
Mexican cartels and ensuing violence leave mark on Texas border town
Oct. 10, 2010
[snip]ZAPATA, Texas — Sgt. Jimmy Mendoza is so baby-faced he could pass for a high school student, but he has helped drag bodies from the Rio Grande, bullets in their heads.
He has sped to a San Ygnacio school after gunfire south of the border hit perilously close to the building, sending students ducking under their desks.
And he’s stood above the Rio Grande and looked across the water, watching members of a drug cartel walk nonchalantly along the Mexican side of the river, machine guns slung over their shoulders.
That violence has been news for months, but it took on new urgency north of the border after the apparent death Sept. 30 of Colorado native David Hartley, who investigators believe was shot and killed by pirates ...in Mexican waters on Falcon Reservoir.
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“I think we could stop it with the help of Mexico.”
But in recent years, as natural-gas production has moved east and north, it is Falcon Reservoir that has been the key economic engine for Zapata, attracting televised bass-fishing tournaments.
The 44-mile-long lake, which straddles the border, is home to black bass, alligator gar, tilapia and other species that grow to record size in its warm waters.
“Total chaos” yards away
The world across the border, where whole towns are controlled by well- organized drug cartels, is “totally out of control,” he says.
“This year has made me realize we are yards away from total chaos — total disregard for law, total disregard for human life,” Gonzalez says.
The cartel members are brazen, like the kid busted in his county running drugs who calmly described how easy it was take a couple of Rohypnol, also known as the date-rape drug, wash them down with beer, and shoot someone in the head. And how it was a matter of honor to look the victim in the eye before pulling the trigger.
The cartels are also awash in drug money, making it easy to bribe Mexican law officers, to control things on the south side of the border.
A 17-year-old arrested in Zapata for drug running told a stunning story, how he came across three times a day with marijuana in his small fishing boat, dumping it on the American side of the lake on the south edge of town.
He was paid $5,000 a load.
“In three-and-a-half days, he makes what I make in one year,” Gonzalez said.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16300367
Two suspects named in Falcon Lake murder by Mexican authorities ..
http://www.krgv.com/mostpopular/stor...QOcMf4Rbg.cspx
“State police Commander Juan Carlos Ballasteros says Juan Pedro Saldivar Farias, known as “27”, and his brother Jose Manuel, known as “31”, are suspects in a string of murders, kidnappings, armed robberies and fires.
Ballasteros says they’re from New Guerrero, Mexico. It’s close to the abandoned town of Old Guerrero where David and Tiffany Hartley were attacked more than a week ago.”
The Zetas were described as birds of prey for looting and robbing grocery stores, gas stations, convenience stores and restaurants, and to charge fees (cuotas or piso) to shopkeepers and street vendors, under the threat of murder, along with their families, unless of course they pay.
These people are also cited as responsible in the mass killing of cattle and robbing ranches along the border.
They are also responsible for trafficking in drugs on the American side and smuggling weapons from the U.S. in to Mexico. They are known to conduct extortions by telephone and kidnapping.
In order to commit their illicit acts they steal late model trucks or SUV’s from individuals or businesses, as was the case with the company of Schulemberg and Ticsa where they stole 30 trucks, as well as the Chevrolet dealership in Miguel Alemán where they stole more than 10 vehicles.
“Round up the usual suspects!”
Oct 10,2010 - Washington -
On Monday, Congressman Ted Poe (TX-02) sent a letter to the U.S. State Department Secretary Hillary Clinton inquiring about the steps being taken by the United States in recovering the body of David Michael Hartley.
Local authorities report that David Hartley was shot and killed when he and his wife, Tiffany, crossed over into Mexican waters to get a look at a sunken mission below the surface. Tiffany reports the couple was ambushed by gunmen from the Mexican side of the lake. While she managed to escape, David’s body remains missing.
“The number one issue at hand is that an American citizen has been reportedly murdered, his body is missing in Mexican waters and our government is not taking charge of the situation,” said Poe. “It has now been nearly a week and the State Department is still waiting for ‘permission’ from the Mexican government to locate the body of an American citizen. This is unacceptable.”
“It concerns me a great deal that we are leaving the recovery efforts up to the Mexican government,” continued Poe. “The drug cartels have operational control of the area on the Mexican side of the border. Not to mention, their track record for solving murder cases is less than impressive.”
This is not the first report of armed attacks on Falcon Lake. Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzales has been calling for help from federal authorities for months. In May of this year, Congressman Poe detailed some of these crimes on the House floor.
To view the letter sent to Sec. Hillary Clinton, click here.
Prior to serving in Congress, Congressman Poe served as a prosecutor and judge in Houston, Texas, for 30 years. Poe regularly travels to the southern border and is recognized by the Border Sheriffs Coalition as a top supporter of law enforcement and border security. Congressman Poe serves on the Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security; a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; and serves as an Executive Member of the Immigration Reform Caucus.
http://politicalnews.me/?id=5342&keys=Congressman-Ted-Poe-DavidHartley
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