11 Die in Northern Mexico
Eleven people died in drug and gang related violence that included two dead Juarez CIPOL agents and a dead state police investigator from Sonora.
- Two unidentified men with the marks of the criminal gang Los Zetas were found shot to death on a highway in Chihuahua Tuesday night, according to Mexican news accounts. The victims were executed at the scene on the Jiménez- Camargo highway near the community of Tampico, from the spent cartridge casings nearby. They had marks on them with the letter Z, which is commonly thought to be an indicator of activity of the criminal gang, Los Zetas.
- A routine and detailed inspection in a local state prison in Juarez yielded a number of bullets and a hand grenade found by police Wednesday, according to Mexican news reports.
Federal, state and local police searched the Juarez state Centro de Rehabilitacion Social (CERESO) facility specifically Modules One through Six. They found: a plastic package with eight Super .38 rounds, a package with 22 .22 caliber rounds, a package with 11 .38 Special rounds and three empty casings of the same caliber, two metals items used to make homemade bullets, and a tear gas hand grenade.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The body was found near the intersection of calles Monte Mayor and Mimosa near the El Paseo commercial center. The victim was bound, gagged and had been shot four times in the back. Investigators found nine spent cartridge casings at the scene.
- Two unidentified CIPOL police agents were shot to death and a third female agent was wounded in an apparent ambush in Juarez Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The ambush took place on a stretch of dirt road near Calle Ramon Rayon near the hospital. Mortally wounded, the driver left the road and ended up in an empty lot near Calle Durango.
CIPOL is a detective squad for most major municipal police departments in Mexico.
- Three suspects from the criminal gang La Linea, were apprehended by Mexican Federal agents following an unsuccessful murder attempt in Juarez Tuesday night, according to Mexican news reports. Reports say the trio were caught just after they made an attempt on an unidentified victim near the intersection of calles Plomo and Mauricio Corredor in the Del Carmen district.
Arrested were: Jesús Enrique Murillo "El Piwi", who was fingered as the shooter, Luis Adrian Fernändez Mercado, 20, and Sergio Estrada Estrada, 24. A Honda Accord was seized along with two .45 (M-1911A1) caliber pistols, a .45 caliber magazine, six .45 caliber rounds and two cell phones.
Reports say Jesús Enrique Murillo may have been involved in an earlier murder a week ago.
La Linea are amongst the most vicious of Mexican gangs and are known to mutilate their victims.
- An unidentified employee of a Chihuahua, Chihuahua gas company was shot to death in his delivery vehicle Tuesday night, say Mexican news reports. The murder is the second attack on employees of the K-19 Gas Company, the last taking place 20 May when two men were shot to death.
The victim was ending his day when he was shot in his gas delivery truck on Km. Marker 19 of the Chihuahua to Juarez highway near Calle Desarrollo.
- An unidentified man was shot to death in the threshold of his home in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The victim is said to have been shot at point blank range with an AK-47 assault rifle as his family watched near the intersection of calles Ojinaga y Boquilla in the Nuevo Hipódromo district. Twelve shot were fired.
- Two city officials in Sonora were found murdered last Thursday afternoon near a farm in Sonora, according to Mexican news reports. Gerardo Gonzalez Mendez, director of Servicios Publicos for the town of Tubutama, and Sergio Vazquez Diaz a city accountant were both found shot to death aboard their pickup truck near the San Jorge farm.
The victims were shot multiple times with AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles. The two corpses had apparently only arrived Tuesday at state forensic facilities in Nogales, Sonora. Unconfirmed reports are the two attempted to phone their families just before they were shot.
- A group leader for a Sonora state police investigating unit was found murdered last night along with a companion, say Mexican police reports. José Israel Duarte Ãñigo, 40, and Lauro Guzman Siqueiros, 40 were found shot to death at about 2230 hrs. aboard a Chevrolet pickup truck in the Plaza Publica of Divisaderos, Sonora. Reports are they were both shot with an AK-47 assault rifle.
Duarte Ãñigo was group leader for Sonora State Policia Estatal Investigadora (PEI). He was also brother of local deputy Reginaldo Duarte for Partido Accion Nacional (PAN).
From the Wait-Until-Your-Father-Gets-Home Department:
Two distraught mothers of two 13 year old girls along with several neighbors in the Villas de Salvarcar district appeared at the Hotel Rio on Avenida Jilotepec late Tuesday, where Mexican Federal agents are quartered demanding state authorities return their daughters who they say were kidnapped by police.
MarÃa de los Ãngeles Gómez Ayala and Perla Judith Gómez Valencia, both 13, came up missing Tuesday when they failed to return from school. They were not reported missing until late Tuesday night because both mothers work.
Units of the Juarez municipal police found the two girls at about 1500 hrs Wednesday playing in a water sprinkler in the Alba district near the intersection of calles Paseo del Alba and Cenzontle. The girls told police they missed school to attend a party,and failed to return home for fear of being scolded. |