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Bajatripper
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Manhunt in the Cape Region
It was reported in the local paper today that two ministerial police officers were gunned down yesterday at around 4:30 p.m. along the highway between
La Paz and Los Barriles, around San Antonio (at kilometer marker 153.5). Several arms were used in the assault, including AK-47s (cuerno de chivo).
Apparently, the police vehicle was parked along the side of the road when a late 90s white Chevy Blazer pulled up and opened fire.
At present, they haven't caught the suspects, but the vehicle they presumably used was abandoned a short distance from the crime scene and the
suspects are thought to have escaped into the surrounding hills. Local police and the military are now involved in a massive manhunt throughout the
Cape Region.
Probably not a bad time to keep those doors locked, especially around the Los Barriles-Buena Vista-East Cape region.
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bajajurel
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this is not good news. I hope the violence isn't spreading.
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bajadave1
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verify ?
Can you verify this story? I can't find a reference anywhere.
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Eli
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Guns ablazing violence in my little corner of the world, how sad it is to read this. In all the years I have lived in L.B., I never felt the need to
lock the door. Of course, we do have 3 big dogs and 1 little yappy one in the yard.
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The article was in the policiaca section of the Sudcaliforniana newspaper yesterday.
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I just read the Sudcalifornia article online and THE POLICEMEN KILLED WERE NOT POLICIA MINISTERIO -- THEY WERE POLICIA MUNICIPAL, LOCAL COPS WHO WORK
IN SAN ANTONIO. PROBABLY A LOCAL DEAL, NOT A CARTEL MATTER AT ALL.
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http://www.oem.com.mx/elsudcaliforniano/notas/n2106564.htm
Spanish - detected to English translation
PORFIRIO SARABIA PACHECO
La Paz, Baja California Sur .- With several bullet holes own 7.62x39 caliber AK-47 rifle, known as "Goat Horns" in the head and body, fell dead
yesterday afternoon, the Municipal Police: José Ramón Manriquez Manriquez Manriquez Leyva and Jorge Adalberto, in fulfilling its duty.
It was reported that the double homicide happened at approximately 16:30 on 12 June 2011, in the 153 + mile stretch of highway 500 San Pedro-Los
Barriles, municipality of La Paz, Baja California Sur.
It seems that the killers are part of a criminal cell of organized crime, by the way they act and the type of weapon they carry. Not established
whether the facts have nexus with drug trafficking.
Mexican Army Personnel, Police Ministerial, members of the State Preventive Police and the Municipal Preventive Police, have surrounded the roads and
villages around San Antonio, Baja California Sur, in search of the suspected assassins.
It is established that the double murder occurred when the SP-57 patrol with the police MH620 plates was parked at the roadside in the mile, when a
vehicle appeared GMC, Blazer type, white, 1997 model, without license plates movement, whose crew as they approached the soldiers opened fire,
peppering them with burst of AK-47 rifles, known as "goat horn" and fled.
The scene of the events attended various elements of all the police forces who cordoned off the area and began searching for the suspected assassins,
with negative results.
However, it was able to locate that vehicle a few miles of the crime scene, abandoned by the gunmen, it is not known how many crew were, and fled on
foot penetrating the mountain, so that the armed forces and police tracked since yesterday afternoon and evening the mountains, ravines and trails
adjacent to the municipalities of La Paz and Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, searching for the gunmen.
It was also reported that in the scene were found apart from the bodies of the policemen, two chargers AK-47 rifles "Goat horns" with 30 rounds
utilies each, and a plastic bag containing 60 rounds of ammunition for the same rifle.
The Deputy Public Investigator Common Law came to the place, doing the lifting bodies for transfer to the amphitheater of the Ombudsman for the
practice of the autopsy, pending the causes of death.
It is noteworthy that the Attorney General of the State, as always provided no information on double homicide, but the spokeswoman of the same through
an email reported that at 22:00 or 23:00 hours Yesterday, the institution would issue an official information.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajurel
this is not good news. I hope the violence isn't spreading. |
People speak so often about the threat of organized crime to the country when it's the disorganized crime that is spreading like fire.
What a freakin' mess.
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I suppose they are going to saty the AK47 was made in american and distribuited by????
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
I just read the Sudcalifornia article online and THE POLICEMEN KILLED WERE NOT POLICIA MINISTERIO -- THEY WERE POLICIA MUNICIPAL, LOCAL COPS WHO WORK
IN SAN ANTONIO. PROBABLY A LOCAL DEAL, NOT A CARTEL MATTER AT ALL. |
Me thinks that not a lot of locals in San Antonio or even La Paz for that matter, have ak47's, unless it is a local connected with the cartels.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by baronvonbob
I suppose they are going to saty the AK47 was made in american and distribuited by???? |
Who is "they" and what's your point?
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There's been lots of drug cartel activity in Baja Calfiornia Sur years. It's just that there has been no competition for "plaza" (fight for territory)
so it's been under the radar. BCS is a major transshipment point for drugs. They come across the SOC from Sonora and then are packed overland to the
Pacific and up to the staging areas in Rosarito/Ensenada.
Just as Acapulco and then Mazatlan turned to crap, so will Puerto Vallarta and then Cabo San Lucas. Can't stop progress. The cartels love tourists.
All the in-and-out activity gives them great cover.
[Edited on 6-14-2011 by jenny.navarrette]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jenny.navarrette
They come across the SOC from Sonora and then are packed overland to the Pacific and up to the staging areas in Rosarito/Ensenada.
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My info has it that it comes into Ensenada in container ships. Has for years. No roadblocks out there.
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Jenny and I no longer work for the Mexican tourism department. We quit. There's drug activity everywhere, a lot of it right here in Baja Sur like she
says. Don't come down here. Stay away.
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just terrible ...
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I have a feeling those two guys are NEVER getting out of that desert.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
Jenny and I no longer work for the Mexican tourism department. We quit. There's drug activity everywhere, a lot of it right here in Baja Sur like she
says. Don't come down here. Stay away. |
Maybe you should post a warning in Baja Good Life magazine, Jorgecito.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by baronvonbob
I suppose they are going to saty the AK47 was made in american and distribuited by???? |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/14/mexico-drug-war-sei...
I know there's been a "size" contest on this forum about the sources of weapons for the cartels.
But, considering that in the industrialized world, the US is alone the "gun crazy" country, why do people keep wanting to deny the reality??
The US has more guns per capita than any other industrialized country. The US also has the most lax gun control in the industrialized world.
Remember, please, I'm not looking to engage in a pro or anti- gun debate. Seriously.
I just want to point out the obvious. If the country at Mexico's Northern border allows such a free intercourse of weapons, how in the world do people
continue to deny that we are a major source of the weapons fueling the drug wars?
If you can obtain automatic weapons in Texas, why go to Africa or South America? Just asking.
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This is very close to Cabo Pulmo and should get as much press as possible. The desert is rife with cartel guys shooting up the place, pelegroso, mui
pelegroso!
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automatic weapons have been strictly controlled in the U.S. since 1934.
Those seriously interested in the flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico should follow Congress' current investigation of the ATF's Operation Fast and
Furious. The ATF is alleged to have encouraged the illegal sale and export of thousands of weapons to Mexico.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0309/Mexico-law...
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