Posted on 10/08/2008 10:42:21 AM PDT by AuntB
Four Mexican officers are found guilty in the death of an Oregon tourist near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The Yoncalla tourist on vacation was beaten in a Mexican jail, after getting arrested for stabbing a man outside his rented condo. A judge decided to convict the four Mexican jail guards of manslaughter. A surveillance video shows the men beating Sam Botner to death in a Cabo San Lucas jail. Botner and his wife were vacationing in Mexico to celebrate his completion of a commercial fishing trip.
The Tribune of Los Cabos reported one of the officers was found guilty of abuse of authority and let go after he paid a fine in connection with the August death of 38-year-old Sam Botner.
Botner Family
Sam Botners wife says her husband was beaten to death in a Mexican jail.
Omar Baraka, deputy justice in Baja California Sur, said that the five officers were charged last month with murder and abuse of power.
A sixth police officer was released without liability to be in the investigation.
Botner was on vacation in Mexico with his wife when he was arrested on August 27 in the parking lot of a beachfront condominium for pulling a knife during a fight with another guest.
He later died in the jail.
http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/mexico-20081007-officers-guilty-death-tourist.eea99fa1.html
I went to Mexico many years ago with my husband for a month. Even then it scared me to death. Federales with automatic weapons everywhere, just as a fact of life. I will never set foot again in that country, both for that reason and for reasons of principle.
Family values ..
I’ve been to PV and Cabo. Both once. I feel no need to return. I honestly don’t know what people like about Mexico, especially when we have Hawaii.
They need automatic rifles just to have an equal chance.
Well, he WAS from Oregon...
Well, he WAS from Oregon...
Would that explain why he brought a knife to a fight that could have been settled by a gun?
He pulled a knife on another guest?
How dumb is that? in Mexico of all places?
I will never go to Mexico.
I am glad they charged the officers but please...bad enough he chose to go to Mexico...worse that he pulls a knife while hes there. My sympathy quotient went down from there.
My next-cube-neighbor at work (a very blonde, very pretty young woman) just got back from Playa del Carmen, Mexico on her honeymoon. She and her hubby stayed at an all-inclusive down there...which is the ONLY way you would get me to vacation in Mexico these days, and probably not even then. She said they had a wonderful time—of course they did, they were on their honeymoon, duh—but they were basically locked in their resort for the whole time, and didn’t have to really interact with the locals.
}:-)4
How long until we say that about certain states in the US?
That’s true, but the whole place is so corrupt, who would you turn to for help? The whole place is so full of third-world violence, would you even get the chance to call for help? And to take the cake, it’s bad enough that it’s there, right on our border, but now the criminals (from both sides of the “law”) are having the arrogance to bring it here. Humans aren’t stupid, by instinct they know weakness when they smell it, and the left is determined to weaken this country to a barely-breathing carcass, the vultures are circling.
Savin’ a buck was not that smart was it? Aloha
Unfortunately my son lives in Calimexico.
Although I love visiting him I have very little interest in going sight seeing when I am there. Usually stay at his house and do the mom and grandmom thing while I am there.
Makes me happy enough.
I already do, about some states.
I came here to Maui 40 years ago on a ten day vacation and never went home. A few days ago (Oct.4th) was my 40 year anniversary. Never been sorry either.
“..my beautiful Maui.”
Your beautiful Maui is truly beautiful but people from the mainland are really not all that welcome except when they come as tourists to drop their dollars off. I know of two law-abiding, tax-paying citizens who bought property there to retire, but both left because they felt that they were treated as invaders.
The problem with Mexico is that it is a crap shoot.
Since there are no rules for police or any govt. uniform that you see, you can run into the nightmare on your first visit or it could be your 500th visit, but if you haven’t had it, it is only because of random luck.
I have had to bribe Federal and local police and I have a real talent for street survival, many of us that have spent time in Mexico can tell of friends, family, and acquaintances that have had misfortunes of every kind from their law enforcement, including rape, bribes, open theft of desirable items, and even killings.
I used to tolerate the danger of visiting Mexico, but it eventually wore me down. I would never recommend it for more civilized people, or now days, anyone.
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