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| Chihuahua State Police Commander Murdered |
| 2011-03-22 |
| A second Chihuahua state police commander was ambushed and this time killed Monday in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican press accounts. José Luis del Bosque Contreras, commander of the Chihuahua state K-9 unit, was attacked while driving his Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck near the intersection of calles Miguel Barragan and Pinabete where armed suspects aboard two vehicles fired on the victim, killing him and wounding a nearby unidentified female bystander. A Jeep Liberty was identified as similar to one of the vehicles involved in the ambush of Comandante Aguilera Sunday. A Ford Contour sedan was also spotted as part of the convoy carrying the shooters. This second attack makes good a threat delivered via graffiti in Chihuahua city in two different locations Sunday. The messages were signed by La Linea, the brutal armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel. The messages warned that unless the Chihuahua state attorney general (PGJE), Carlos Manuel Salas, resigned for supporting the Sinaloa driug cartel in Chihuahua, one state police agent per day would be attacked. Manuel Salas has been the Procuradora General Justicia Estado since the newly elected Chihuahua governor Cesar Duarte took office in October, 2010. He took over from former Chihuahua PGJE Patricia Gonzalez, who left the office under a cloud of charges she was in the pay of the Juarez drug gang. Her brother, Mario Gonzalez, was murdered in November last year following a video released in which he was recorded saying Gonzalez was in the pay of the Juarez drug gang. Mario was kidnapped three weeks before the video was released. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 A Jeep Liberty was identified as similar to one of the vehicles involved in the ambush of Comandante Aguilera Sunday. A Ford Contour sedan was also spotted as part of the convoy carrying the shooters. I blame autos from north of the border on the Mexican violence. /sarc |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-03-22 11:48 |