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Chihuahua Coppers Stop Heavily Armed Robbers
Mexican journalists are calling the weapon seized in this shootout Friday night an Uzi, but it doesn't look like one. Click the link for the pic. UPDATE: Abu do you love sez its a TEC-9Chihuahua, Chihuahua municipal police exchanged gunfire and then arrested two men they say are connected to a number of armed robberies and attacks in the city, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka. VÃctor Alfonso Mendoza Chavez, 22, and Ulises Ponce Baray, 19, were arrested by Chihuahua municipal police after they fired a submachine gun at the police following a car chase. Authorities say the two men are connected to El Pelón criminal gang, two members of which are already serving time. The gang has been tied to recent armed robberies and shootings including the robbery of the Extra convenience store at Palestina and Carruaje, Oxxo convenience store at Lombardo and Juarez, a food store at Lombardo and Juan Pablo, an attack on a woman near the intersection of calles Zubiron y Lombardo, and the bar El Macoy. According to the translation, three suspects robbed an unidentified person of his money at Avenida Palestina at about 2213 hrs, then fled aboard a large sedan. Police later found the car parked near the San Carlos bar where they robbed four more people there and at a shop. The ensuing car chase through Chihuahua ended up near the intersection of Fuerza Aérea and Juan Pablo II where the two ditched the car before firing on Chihuahua police with the automatic weapon. Police were not hit and they returned fire hitting Mendoza Chavez in the leg. The submachine gun was found to have ten 9mm rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber. One unidentified suspect escaped police. Posted by: badanov 2010-06-14 |
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