Posted on 03/18/2007 2:09:45 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A bank robbery at the IBC at Wal-Mart South Saturday night ended with the suspects shooting a police car, then racing to El Portal where they escaped into the brush along the Rio Grand and swam to the Mexican shore carrying bags of cash.Tow trucks pulled out a dark-colored Toyota Tundra out of the river late Saturday while a Border Patrol helicopter, Webb County Sheriff’s deputies, Texas Rangers, and other law enforcement officials oversaw the scene. When the car was pulled out it was surrounded by law enforcement officers in full protective gear.
Police say at least two men with high powered-weapons robbed the IBC bank inside Wal-Mart, in the 4400 block of U.S. 83, taking several thousand dollars, and shot at a Laredo Police crusiser during a high-speed chase, without injuring the officer.
Several police and Webb County patrol units were believed to have been damaged in the high-speed chase. The robbers then sped toward Bridge No. 2, where they then abandoned the stolen truck near the intersection of Pedregal and Sta. Cleotilde Ave. and fled into Los Dos Laredos Park, just north of El Portal.
Although a police helicopter had come to the scene the robbers are believed to have swum to the Mexican side of the Rio Grand, carrying bags of money, and escaped into Nuevo Laredo.
The situation was confused, police said, by a second robbery of the truck in the 4500 block of Hachar Lane.
The victim told police that two men ran up to him, pointed a handgun, and stole his black 2006 Toyota Tundra pickup.
During the high-speed chase along Highway 83 and Loop 20 officers attempted to stop the truck and were fired on by the suspects, police said. Police report that at least one car was hit by gunfire.
Local and federal agencies were called into the chase and during the pursit the truck went into downtown Laredo and ran into the river at high speed. It was later hauled out by police.
After the two men swam to Nueva Laredo authorities in Mexico were notified and are said, by Laredo police, to be assisting in the investigation.
In their perverted and ignorant minds, they're taking what is already theirs. They think they own the southwestern U.S.
What a terrifying experience for those in the bank - savages with AK47s, hard to imagine.
You just can't be too careful when a wet car is involved!
No, sorry, a virtual fence would do much better.
Regards.
Or they will sue us for getting water in their lungs or some lying bunch of bs....
They'll find the guys.
Then they'll take their cut.
That was just west of El Paso in New Mexico. I don't know if it's been stopped, or if it is so common that it is no longer news.
This is just the beginning. GW wants more unity with Mexico, and this is what we can expect. We will be importing their unwanted and they will be exporting the crime back to Mexico.
I know. It amazing to me that there is no reasoning with the dopes we voted in on the issue of border control. Plus many other issues. Very alarming & sad ..~P~
If you think BUSH is bad in immigration,wait till you see Hillary!
If you think BUSH on bad in immigration,wait till you see Hillary!
">>If we had a fence built the cockroaches wouldn't
>>have made it back across, period.
No, sorry, a virtual fence would do much better. "
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How would that have stopped them more? With a wall it is
physically impossible for them to cross.
How? I dunno.
Homeland Defence Secretary Mike Chertoff and the President and John McCain and Ted Kennedy say a virtual fence is better and more suitable than just a plain old fashioned, barrier type wall, you know, like the White house has.
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Regards.
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