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Caribbean-Latin America
Guerrero: Mexican Navy Nabs Four Bad Guys, Weapons After Ambush
2010-06-17
Babelfish with a hat tip to Nota Roja for the article
A Mexican Naval Infantry convoy was attacked by armed suspects in Acapulco, Guerreo Wednesday morning, say Mexican news accounts.
That's pretty frisky for gang activity ...
Dumb, though. Read on to discover how dumb.
The convoy was attacked near the intersection of Gabriel Carballo and James Cook at about 0550 hrs by an unknown number of unidentified arm suspects.

No one was reported hurt in the attack.
Dumb move #1. If you're actually going to attack professionals, at least damage them badly enough that they can't retaliate.
After the attack, elements of the Mexican Navy apparently followed the attackers to a residence they say was a safe house where the attackers took refuge and where they found a vehicle and two assault rifles.
See?
The Marines then went to another address where they found 2,158 weapon cartridges of different calibers and 26 magazines for different arms. The Marines then went to a location in Costa Azul where they were attacked from the interior of a residence.
Dumb move #2. Houses are not generally designed to be defensible against pros.
After the confrontation ended, the Marines seized four AK-47 rifles and arrested two individuals.
Q.E.D.
Five of the suspects hijacked a taxi cab to escape pursuit injuring the driver in the process.
Fleeing was probably wise at this point.
Two more suspects were arrested later in the day.

Five vehicles in all were seized by the Mexican Naval Infantry. Additionally, six assault rifles, one submachine gun and two fragmentary and one smoke hand grenades were seized.

The area that was attacked had a number of private naval schools and a day care. Two buildings were hit by stray bullets in the initial encounter.
Posted by:badanov

#3  So, after screwing up their ambush, they fled back to their hideout rather than scattering?

Genius.
Posted by: mojo   2010-06-17 13:30  

#2  In Acapulco many years ago the Mexican Navy guys used to clear the beach of drug dealers every evening at sundown. They were a seriously mean-looking bunch of sailors. Dressed in spotless white uniforms, every one of them had a Colt auto in 38 Super strapped to their side, a really hefty club in their off hand, an absolutely blank, totally unsmiling game face on.

The druggies would just get a glimpse of the Navy coming down the beach and would vanish inland muy pronto, sometimes in such a rush that they would leave . . . . stuff behind.

When the anti-drug sweep was finished, up would pull a spotless Navy truck driven by another mean looking sailor. They'd all pile in and depart for another beach.

Maybe they all looked that mean because they were in the Mexican Navy, maybe because they were serious military, maybe because they were born that way. Anyway, the whole operation was impressive to a much, much younger Canuckistan sniper.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2010-06-17 09:37  

#1  Mexico has a Navy? Who knew!
Posted by: crosspatch   2010-06-17 04:19  

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