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Rosarito police commander killed

BajaNews - 7-28-2010 at 07:55 PM

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMi5B2USfJ...

...authorities said gunmen shot to death a police commander in the border city of Tijuana and wounded his partner.

Baja California prosecutors say in a statement Wednesday that state police commander Antonio Sanchez and another officer where in an unmarked car outside the state police office in Tijuana when assailants drove up and opened fire.

[Edited on 7-29-2010 by BajaNews]

BajaNews - 7-28-2010 at 08:05 PM

http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/28072...

El subprocurador de Justicia en Rosarito, Rafael González, dio a conocer que horas antes de que el comandante Antonio Sánchez fuera asesinado, agentes ministeriales localizaron a 23 aspirantes a indocumentados en una casa localizada en el kilómetro 45.5 de la carretera libre a Ensenada.

Dijo que el propietario de vivienda acudió a la Policía Ministerial a interponer una denuncia toda vez que la persona que cuida su casa le indico que había gente en su interior.

Detalló que al principio se creía que se trataba de un robo pero los agentes encontraron en el interior de la vivienda a 21 hombres y una mujer procedentes de varios estados del País que indicaron que pagarían 5 mil dólares por cruzar a los Estados Unidos de ilegales.

Además se localizaron recipientes con gasolina y chalecos salvavidas.

El funcionario mencionó que las personas fueron remitidas a las autoridades federales y que justo cuando se registró el ataque donde perdiera la vida Sanchez Vasquez, estaba por concluir la turnación.

Agrego que la corporación no había recibido amenazas, por ello el hallazgo de los candidatos a indocumentados es la principal linea de investigación sobre los hechos violentos ocurridos la noche de ayer.

BajaNews - 7-28-2010 at 08:07 PM

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/698359.html

El tráfico de personas podría ser el móvil del asesinato del comandante de la Policía Ministerial en Playas de Rosarito, Antonio Sánchez Vásquez, durante un ataque perpetrado por sujetos que dejaron otro agente herido de gravedad.

Es la principal línea de investigación, confirmó el procurador de Justicia del estado a medios de comunicación de Mexicali.

Cerca de la medianoche del martes, sujetos que viajaban en una camioneta dispararon con armas largas hacia la comandancia policíaca rosaritense, sin que se les pudiera detener.

El comandante quedó herido y más tarde falleció en las instalaciones de la Cruz Roja, en tanto que el otro agente lesionado sigue en el hospital.

Por su parte, el subprocurador de Justicia en Playas de Rosarito, Rafael González, detalló que unas horas antes la Policía Ministerial había localizado en una casa ubicada en la carretera libre a Ensenada a un grupo de 22 personas de diferentes entidades que esperaban para ser trasladadas vía marítima a Estados Unidos.

Eran una mujer y el resto hombres que refirieron que pagarían 5 mil dólares para que se les trasladara al vecino país.

El subprocurador explicó que el ataque ocurrió mientras se llevaba a cabo la turnación de los migrantes.

DENNIS - 7-28-2010 at 08:23 PM

The scum runs the country. We're screwed. It's only a matter of time before they start brutilizing foreigners so as to pressure the US.

Woooosh - 7-28-2010 at 09:17 PM

They aren't going to brutalize foreigners. If the drug profits slow down they will kidnap and extort your money (may even offer a monthly payment plan to you that you can't refuse) to make up the difference. That's not being brutalized- it't the cartel's way of letting you know you are being treated just like any other Mexican. Silly.

Baja commander shot to death

BajaNews - 7-28-2010 at 09:22 PM

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/28/baja-commande...

By Sandra Dibble
July 28, 2010

ROSARITO BEACH — A state police commander in Rosarito Beach was shot to death Tuesday night, hours after his agents had found 23 migrants who told authorities they were going to be smuggled to the United States for $5,000 apiece.

José Antonio Sánchez Velásquez was attacked by armed assailants about 10:30 p.m. outside his office on Boulevard Popotla south of downtown. Another agent was injured in the attack; he was being treated at a hospital in Tijuana, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office reported Wednesday.

The state’s attorney general, Rommel Moreno, said investigators are looking into whether the commander was killed by smugglers as a result of the discovery of the migrants. They were staying inside a private residence whose owner was away. The house was along the free road to Ensenada, near the community of Primo Tapia.

Moreno didn’t specify how the migrants were to be transported, but the area has increasingly been used as a staging site for maritime smuggling.

DENNIS - 7-28-2010 at 10:01 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
They aren't going to brutalize foreigners. If the drug profits slow down they will kidnap and extort your money (may even offer a monthly payment plan to you that you can't refuse) to make up the difference. That's not being brutalized- it't the cartel's way of letting you know you are being treated just like any other Mexican. Silly.



I get your point and sadly agree.

Woooosh - 7-28-2010 at 10:02 PM

The American killed two weeks ago had two pangas that were modified for human transport. A link to this assassination and the same staging area? This illegal activity is very close to the JPGE office on Popotla Blvd. The sinaloa's are moving their families here in huge numbers. Three kids I've met in the last month, plus a nice girl now dating my nephew- are all sinaloa cartel kids playing on the beach, growing up and going to school. I think they try to emulate "the Godfather" mafia lifestyle- but they can only deliver on "Scarface." The men move around for safety and the family is in constant motion. Can you imagine how bad that would suck all your childhood. Really well behaved and nice kids I would like to add. We let them and their mothers know our house is a safe place for them if they need it. They're just kids. And don't think even the younger kids don't know what is going on. They do. The older ones are fairly open. When it came up in conversation once the kid looked at me for a reaction to being Sinaloa. All I could come up with was "well they do work closely with the government and our family loves Rosarito and Mexico". lol

[Edited on 7-29-2010 by Woooosh]

wilderone - 7-29-2010 at 07:31 AM

"Really well behaved and nice kids I would like to add. We let them and their mothers know our house is a safe place for them if they need it. They're just kids."

Very nice sentiment, but now you're involved. Yeah, just kids - that's the really rotten part of a cartel "family man" isn't it - you put your entire family - your CHILDREN - in harm's way. God help us.

Woooosh - 7-29-2010 at 08:59 AM

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Originally posted by wilderone
"Really well behaved and nice kids I would like to add. We let them and their mothers know our house is a safe place for them if they need it. They're just kids."

Very nice sentiment, but now you're involved. Yeah, just kids - that's the really rotten part of a cartel "family man" isn't it - you put your entire family - your CHILDREN - in harm's way. God help us.


Very naive. I've always been involved- if you live here full-time you have been too. Ever wonder why absolutely no one (including your own family) will ask what you do for a living? Doesn't even make the top ten conversations. Everyone living in Mexico has a connection to a corrupt policeman, gov't official, a pollero or a cartel- whether they know and accept it or not. It permeates Mexican society and is part of the social fabric of Mexico and I see no sign of that changing. My family has deep roots in Rosarito and along with that history come ties to all the above. It is what it is. The kids don't differentiate between the different cartels when they play- they all play together and I'm sure that's the way their family wants it. The one we know can come here if some creep on the beach gives them a problem (especially the younger girls). Every father appreciates that and we worry more that they will thank us with a Kilo than hurt us. One man did ask if there was anything he could do for us- we told him that we appreciated the offer but we really just want to be left alone in that respect. He liked that.

[Edited on 7-29-2010 by Woooosh]