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Posted on 02/09/2006 9:28:51 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
LAREDO — Unidentified men thought to be drug cartel operatives threatened the safety of the Hudspeth County deputies who thwarted a smuggling operation east of El Paso on Jan. 23, along with their families.
Hudspeth County Chief Deputy Mike Doyal said three men inside a black and red Ford Bronco approached the wife of one of the deputies last Thursday and made a threat before driving across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
"They told her that her husband and the other officers needed to stay off the river down there," Doyal said.
On Friday, a Hudspeth deputy in the Fort Hancock area received information a cartel was talking about putting together a "death squad" to target the deputies, Doyal said.
The three deputies who were targeted were the same who witnessed the failed Jan. 23 marijuana smuggling operation that set off diplomatic volleys between the United States and Mexico because men dressed in military uniform provided the drug smugglers protection during the standoff.
The Mexican government denied its army was involved in the incursion, blaming drug traffickers in pseudo-army gear.
Sheriff's deputies that day gave chase to a convoy of SUVs that fled toward the Rio Grande, where a military-style Humvee awaited to protect them.
Authorities found more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana inside the SUVs that broke down on the U.S. side of the border.
The Sheriff's Office didn't release the names of the threatened deputies, but one of the deputies involved in the incident told the San Antonio Express-News on Jan. 26 that, "Basically, if we tried to do anything, it would've been suicide for us. We were outgunned and outmanned."
Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West offered to relocate the threatened deputies.
"Each one of them stated that they were going to stand their ground. They weren't going to be run out," Doyal said.
El Paso FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said the agency was aware of the threats, but had not been asked by the sheriff to investigate.
The FBI could investigate the case under a law that makes it illegal for anyone to cross international boundaries with the purpose of threatening someone, Simmons said.
The incident has resulted in extra security near the deputies' homes and at area schools.
Sheriff West was among the law enforcement officials who testified in Washington Tuesday about the increasingly brazen drug traffickers along the border.
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mcastillo@express-news.net
Troops!
50 caliber law enforcement needed asap........
Hey, they're only running the drugs and threatening the LEO's that Americans refuse to do.
My wife would be armed with instructions to shoot.
If our LEOs need any help, I just know they only need to ask. Plenty of citizens would be willing to assist.
If Mexico refuses to do anything about this, maybe we ought to just occupy northern Mexico and restore law and order.
Drug dealers want to threaten American citizens. I say arm the borders with troops that have shoot to kill orders!!!!!
SEAL THE BORDERS TO STOP THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, STOP THE ILLEGAL DRUG TRAFFICKING, STOP PEOPLE COMING IN WITH DRUG RESISTANT TB AND OTHER DISEASES, STOP THE MADNESS NOW!!!!!
Who needs TROOPS ? Have a company or two of Engineers lay some minefields. And if the Mexies blow themselves to smithereens, oh well . . .
anyone expecting fedgov to get involved here will be disappointed, unless you are hoping for fedgov to tell local LEO's to back off and quit harrassing innocent traffickers.
The only reason this stuff happens 4 yrs after the 2001 terrorist attacks is because bushgov does not want to secure the border.
With these:
There are fewer and fewer reasons remaining for not removing a good many people from office in at least two branches of government.
Texas PING!!
Fort Hancock Ping!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
Death squad my butt. Most of those ranchers can take the head off a squirrel with Grandad's 45-70 at one mile.
You want to start something? We'll finish it.
Whatever is done, it needs to be done soon. The attack on our Country is getting more concentrated by the day. We are attacked from the Southern and Northern borders, both coasts and by a determined enemy within. Coupled with that, it will not be long before the lunatic imams here will be offended by a cartoon (or about anything else) to the point they issue some fatwa or edict and all the muslums here in the United States will go nuts....
I suspect that this problem will be solved by the local constabulary as a Barrett 50 caliber is an off-the-rack item in many Texas gunshops.
There a rancher up here in north texas (callisburg) who
has a dead coyote tied to every one of his hundreds of fence posts. I guess its a texas thing..
Except for the fact that the earlier articles said the bad guys had humvee mounted machine guns ....
The human variety (smuggler) I hope. That would send a strong! signal to the invaders.
Un-flippin' believable. No, it isn't. What happened in Colombia has come home to roost. This is the by-product of soft policies.
You are welcome to advise the sheriff that there are at least a hundred FReepers who might well be glad to drop by that area and take interest, some with police experience, most with considerable military expertise. Several are already resident in Texas.
No payment necessary, it'd be a nice vacation for most of us. But a barbecue would be a welcome and hospitable touch.
Accordingly: CWII ping; Free Republic Veterans list ping; SBCT list ping; FReep snipers list ping; Infantry list ping; Free Republic Treadheads ping; Ontos and 106 Recoilless gunners list ping; Snakeaters ping list and Fireinthehole! EOD list ping....
Oh yes. And with a particular interest in border ops and cross-border activities: the FReeper Gurkha ping list; Ayo Ghorkhali!
You have to see firsthand the damage they do.The first time I shot one,I felt kind of bad because they look so much like a dog.But,after seeing the mangled horses and cattle,I got over that.They will send a bitch in heat to lure your dog out,whereupon,they surround and attack,and eat your dog!Not to count the rabies and other diseases they bring with them.
Got that right!
Not a problem
Don't bother. He's already shown he has no intention of living up to his "sworn duty".
Let's all face it...we are being Invaded by a Foreign Power, and our Leaders are holding the door open!
The movie "Red Dawn" showed EXACTLY the same type of Politicians.
We are well past begging our elected "Leaders" to do their job.
I'm in favor ofintroducing an article of Impeachment specifically regarding the Open Border, the attacks on Uniformed Federal Agents and Local Constabulary, and the tacit approval, if not outright "compicity" of this Administration in a Time of War!
The disregard they hold the Border situation just proves to me my instincts about this man were right, and he is NOT the "Leader" his Cult following have made him out to be!
I know already that the deck is stacked, and it will not happen. But it also shows I owe no loyalty to D.C power brokers.
My allegiance is to the Constitution, and my fellow Americans that see what is going on!
We need to STAND OUR GROUND !!... We don't negotiate with terrorist or DRUG SMUGGLERS !!
David
Please call this Sheriff to tell him that we STAND BEHIND HIM and HIS DEPUTIES !!!
Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office 525 North Wilson Sierra Blanca, Texas 79851
(915) 369-2161
BTTT
Blood will have to be 'spilt... and lives lost... in one of these confrontations before anything is done by our government.
Not much of a shooter, but I can operate a radio!
A vacation to Texas sounds like a good idea. Calling the Texas chef for barbeque recipes :)
BTTT
/jasper
Bush is treating this stinking problem the same way he did with what the scuzzy ex-president Carter said about him at that weird King rock concert funeral, he acts like it was never said so he doesn't respond and continues to make windbag speeches(such as today's)disappointing the American people and goes on his merry way like he was Bill Clinton himself.
It is maddening and very disturbing!
I am begining to wonder if Bush has a deadly fear of the sleazy Democrats, politically, he cannot overcome.
If this is true then, adios muchachos, YA' LL!
For real?
Great idea....
Damn, nice Solothurn.
I'm surprised that the Demons are not seizing this oppurtunity and charging the pres with high crimes and misdemeanors.
Consider this former infantry officer at your service. I hear Texas is nice this time of year.
My wife is Texas bred and Texas fed,and I can assure you she can put on a spread to die for!No need for recipes,just warm bodies.I am way overdue for a que.
Let's hope that's not some sort of "compensation" issue (heh heh).
For every one of us that can't beat the bush anymore, there's a couple of us that can.
Thank you for your service, by the way. Thank you for giving me and my daughter a free country to grow up in.
Just put a few weaponized hummers in the hands of the local deputies.
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