Not this one!
In 2007, a chilling incident took place in Pearsall, Texas, just outside of San Antonio. A tow-truck driver was kidnapped and taken back to Mexico by enforcers working for drug traffickers.
Apparently, the traffickers were angry at the loss of drug proceeds they had hidden away in a spare tire of a car which had been towed from an accident on Interstate 35, the main road from San Antonio to the city of Laredo.
In April 2008, a federal grand jury indicted the five assailants for the kidnapping.
Prosecutors claim that the men were offered $15,000 to bring the tow-truck driver to Mexico. They lured the driver to Frio County Regional Park in Pearsall after phoning in a fake request for a tow, they then abducted and brought him across the border to Piedras Negras. The indictment describes the driver being "tortured and interrogated about the missing spare tire" for a week.
The driver´s boss was phoned by the kidnappers and told that if he did not return their money, that they would "cut the head off of the driver."
According to the Phoenix Police Department, as of mid November, there had been 266 kidnappings and 300 home invasions during 2008. However, police estimate the actual numbers to be closer to three times as high as the reported figures. Many victims fail to report such crimes, out of fear from further retribution from the notoriously violent cartels.
Phoenix Police Lt. Lori Burgett told CBS News: “It wasn´t uncommon to have a new kidnapping case coming into our offices on a daily basis.”
This is one of the main reasons why it was so wise for Americans to buy so many guns after the usurper’s election.
"Only?"
"Only" thirty Americans abducted in SoCal since last November?
Are the joking?
...we are protected by golly...
Our lesbo hispanic sheriff Lupe Valdez is on the job, night and day....
I feel safe every minute of the day.....
...she will run these miscreants right out of town...
Yet Ramos and Campean are still in jail? Somethings wrong with this picture, when are American’s going to wake-up?
Cartel money is propping up a significant portion of the American economy and an even more significant portion of political fundraising activity. Don’t expect any changes - the status quo suits the government just fine.
Yep. It's the smallest big city in the country.
Glad I don't live there any more.
Bush's legacy for us all...
U.S. Joint Forces Command released a report warning that “any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response.”
I think Mexico has been in collapse for quite a while. And it’s way past time for American action.
Remember Ramos and Compean?
Just doing jobs that lazy Americans won't do.
A friend of ours was looking for a specific shotgun for deer hunting. He began calling around the US. He finally found it in Texas. Some gun shop out there and he said the guy was really friendly and they began talking. He told him that Mexicans were buying pick up trucks full of ammo, guns, anything they could get their hands on. I asked him how they could do that, were they legal or illegal and he didn’t know. Now after reading this, makes me wonder what’s up.
McCain’s home state is America’s kidnapping capitol. There’s roughly one per day there and kidnappings are no longer necessarily tied to drug trafficking or illegal immigration.
It’s kidnapping for fun, sport and $$$.
Also, a US congressman’s sister-in-law was recently kidnapped in Mexico but she was released when the kidnappers realized who they’d nabbed.
“The abducted woman was the sister of the wife of U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The woman was eventually released by her abductors, after they discovered her relationship to the Congressman — indicating that it was a random kidnapping and the perpetrators had enough on the ball to understand the downside of snatching a U.S. Congressman’s family member.”
You know that most of us aren’t so lucky and that the powers that be in DC are glad to let this happen to us as long as it isn’t happening to them.
My Mexican neighbors don’t seem to have a great deal of patience with Mexican gang types, and they don’t let them hang around for very long.
this is scary
Doesn’t the knowledge of this give you a nice warm fuzzy with the anti-gun, anti-american dimwits in power in Washington city?