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| Military Mayhem in Monterrey: One Mexican Soldier Dies, 4 Wounded |
| 2010-10-28 |
| Google Translate. For a map, click here Two unidentified officers with the Monterrey, Nuevo Leon municipal police were arrested by a patrol of the Monterrey Rapid Response team Tuesday after they were found with cocaine and Nextel radios, according to Mexican news accounts. The police were suspected of acting as "hawks" for criminal gangs, which are scouts who watch for police and warn gangs about their movements. The arrests were made on calle José M. Tamez in the Caracol district in southern Monterrey. A Rapid Response team is a group of municipal, state and federal police who are tasked with responding quickly to roadblocks put up by criminal gangs, and to other gang initiated. In another shootout the Mexican Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) told the press that one unidentified soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a firefight in Caracol district last Thursday. Armed suspects riding in a convoy of at least three vehicles fired on a Mexican Army patrol, a detachment of the Mexican Seventh Military Zone, then fled the scene. Soldiers seized a rifle, three vans, as well as other munitions and contraband. One unidentified armed suspect was arrested. |
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