CortezBlue
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Road Stop by Fed Cops between Mexicali and San Felipe
While driving down to San Felipe on Thursday late afternoon, we were stopped by 2 Fed Cop cars with 4 cops.
A bad ass nasty looking cop with his Ray Ban Aviators gleaming in the late after noon sun, looked at us, not saying a word, and waving us on.
Now, I have seen this before around the turn off for Algodones and I have seen them near the Hwy 2 turn off east bound, but never in the middle of the
salt flats.
Not sure if it was just a show of force or they were looking for a particular amigo?
But, now that we are here, the weather is wonderful. 80 degrees today and for most of the long weekend.
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Ateo
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The Federales were checking vehicles southbound just north of Santo Tomas a few weeks ago. Maybe checking for seat belts or drunks??? They waived us
thru. It was my awesome mexican cop mustache that did it.
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DJL
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We stopped at Pemex in Santa Rosalia (North side of town) on November 28th for a pee break , there were 25-30 Feds setting up a roadblock and stopping
everyone going both North and South (we were waved thru without being checked) .
It did look like they were looking for someone specific .
D.~
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Mula
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Was going on last Friday in Loreto, too.
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StuckSucks
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Definitely sounds like they're looking for someone specific.
Maybe 10 years ago, my wife and I were driving back up the peninsula, from La Paz after a 1000. We all know where the checkpoints are, but we ran into
LOTS of additional improv checkpoints all along Highway 1. We later found out that a 737-sized plane full of cocaine crashed and burned near the cape
- the bad guys escaped with all the drugs, and that's what the feds were looking for.
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BajaDQ
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Last Fall before the 1000, there was a roadblock at the airport turnoff South of San Felipe. I was Northbound in my prerunner and was waved thru when
I got to the front of the line. The cops were apparently looking for a Mexican national, so we were waved on thru without a word. Most of the locals
stopped were out of their vehicles and were being searched. I think a somewhat common occurrence, no problem.
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David K
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On the road to Bahia de los Angeles, west of the San Borja road, came around a curve and there was a surprise Federal Police checkpoint... Mexico's
Men In Black!
(they are looking for criminals, not checking tourist cards  )
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J.P.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
(they are looking for criminals, not checking tourist cards )
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They are checking for anything they want to check for including Tourist Cards.
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PaulW
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Cop stops
Between San Felipe and Mexicali we often see a cop standing in the middle of the road and his and other cars parked nearby. Way out in the boondocks.
He always waved us on. I was told its a seat belt check and part of the initiative to promote safety.
Paul
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freediverbrian
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Two weeks ago I saw many of the fed cops on the road to SF pull Mexicans over for speeding .
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chuckie
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I guess I would have to say"so what"....Its their job....
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nbacc
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I see in the paper this morning that they caught a big drug trafficera at the border in Mexicali...maybe that is what they were looking out for.
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I believe that sometimes a tip is received about some criminal activity, and that is when the military and Federalies come out in force.
A couple of years ago, northbound out of San Felipe headed toward Mexicali I was stopped and searched 5 times by both the military and Federalies at
temporary roadblocks.
Why do Liberals insist and demand that achievers pay the way for nonachievers who are to lazy to succeed, or are just failures by their own choice?
Criminals prefer unarmed victims, dictators prefer unarmed subjects.
Why do ignorant people continue their blabbering when it only proves to others how stupid they are.
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monoloco
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
I guess I would have to say"so what"....Its their job.... |
Well, police actually doing their jobs in Mexico
is big news.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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sancho
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A funny post on one of the San Felipe boards, in the only in Mex files,
a tourist going so. past Laguna Salada, a turnout where Fed Camino
cop was waving vehicles over, he told the driver he was citing
him for speeding, which the driver asked 'how can you tell
I was speeding'? The cop replied 'everyone on this Hwy speeds',
how can you argue with that logic
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freediverbrian
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Improve the roads ,smooth , high speed, lots of shoulders, and do not increse the speed limit????
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rts551
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| Quote: | Originally posted by freediverbrian
Improve the roads ,smooth , high speed, lots of shoulders, and do not increse the speed limit???? |
They have in some areas. Have you seen the speed limit between Tecate and Ensenada. 110 in some areas
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