Posted on 09/10/2010 8:50:36 AM PDT by AuntB
McALLEN — A man charged in at least five separate kidnapping and carjacking attempts in as many years has pleaded guilty to his role in a 2009 attack on an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent, prosecutors said Thursday.
Jose Antonio “El Commandante” Armendariz told a federal judge that he organized a group of six others who shot at the agent, believing him to be a drug courier carrying a load of cash between Michigan and the Rio Grande Valley.
Armendariz, 27, of Peñitas, also admitted his role in a 2006 kidnapping attempt on a prominent bakery owner — a crime for which he had previously been acquitted in state district court.
The plot that mistakenly targeted the off-duty agent began with an occult fortune-teller who learned about the cash shipment from one of her clients.
The intended victim had come to Claudia Cecilia Gomez Aguilar — a follower of Santisima Muerte, a saint-like figure popular among members of Mexico’s drug cartels — seeking a blessing to ensure safety on her upcoming trip.
Instead, Gomez crafted a plan with two others to rip off the woman. The group hired Armendariz — a man with a reputation for carrying out kidnapping plots in western Hidalgo County — to help.
On June 24, 2009, he and the other plotters pursued a gray Cadillac they believed to be their victim’s vehicle from southbound U.S. 281 to West Expressway 83 and eventually into Mission, where one of the men got out of the car and brandished a gun.
The agent inside — who was driving his 10-year-old daughter back from a trip to Arizona — pulled out his duty weapon to scare off his pursuers, but one carload of attackers fired upon him.
The agent and his daughter escaped unharmed and managed to call 9-1-1. Mission police arrested all seven carjackers in the weeks after the attack.
Since then, all seven — including Gomez and Armendariz — have pleaded guilty to various charges in connection with the attempted carjacking.
Armendariz was previously accused of a role in another series of high-profile kidnappings in 2006, including the abduction of bakery owner Uriel de Alba. However, an Hidalgo County jury acquitted him of those charges.
Masked men took de Alba from his home and held him for more than 10 hours in November 2006, eventually releasing him unharmed after a ransom was paid.
Armendariz now faces up to life in prison for his role in that crime at a sentencing hearing scheduled for November.
His attorney Carlos Garcia did not return calls seeking comment Thursday.
Arkansas celebrates Mexico, 2010
Mexican Independence Day Family Fest Sunday
A crowd of 3,000-plus Americans and Mexicans are expected to attend the Mexican Independence Day Family Festival this Sunday on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center and Park. Festivities will run from 2 to 9 p.m.
The Mexican Independence Day is the largest and most important celebration for Mexican citizens and Hispanics of Mexican origin living in the United States. This is the fourth year that the Mexican Consulate has celebrated the Independence Day, which has grown steadily each year with public and corporate participation.
“This day is a great opportunity to remember the roots for the Mexican-American community and to share Mexican culture with other members of the community,” said Arkansas Mexican Consul Andres Chao Ebergenyi.
The festival is part of this year’s Arkansas Mexico 2010 Project, a university-community collaboration between the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the cities of Little Rock and North Little Rock, and the William J. Clinton Foundation. The project’s goal is to encourage and coordinate local events that highlight the history of Mexico and United States-Mexican relations and to encourage the discussion of present and future bi-national development.[snip]
http://arkansasmexico2010.com/?page_id=3
“The intended victim had come to Claudia Cecilia Gomez Aguilar — a follower of Santisima Muerte, a saint-like figure popular among members of Mexico’s drug cartels — seeking a blessing to ensure safety on her upcoming trip.”
Where’s the obligatory open border comment about this culture being such good ‘Christians’?
LA SANTA MUERTE
The Santa Muerte also known as Santisima Muerte is the beloved goddess of death who’s origins date to the Pre Hispanic period of Mexico. ...
www.brujonegrobrujeria.com/page/page/2215114.htm
Juarez deaths rising
September 10, 2010 by m3report
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Foreign News Report
Friday, 9/10/10
Torrential rains have flooded various states of Mexico and parts of Central America. That, plus continuing widespread coverage of the arrest in the “La Barbie” case, and the arrests connected with the recent massacre of the 70+ migrants in Tamaulipas, combined to dominate the news today. As a result, we present the following abbreviated report
El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 9/9/10
Chaotic Juarez
(These are but two examples found about the conditions in Ciudad Juarez.) The first seven days of September have brought about 61 homicides in the city, including prison guards, a police officer and minors. Some of the victims are yet to be identified.
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2010/09/08&id=7e0e0b9634e6c0a784d7e45deff1009e
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Another report describes the fear, terror and desperation felt by parents and faculty members at a grade school and at a separate kindergarten in the west side of Juarez because extortionists are demanding money. The thugs are threatening to slit children’s throats if their request is not met.
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2010/09/09&id=ef3818e22c7621559be8894f79dac428
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Diario Rotativo (Queretaro, Qro.,) 9/9/10
Flooding strands aliens in Mexico
Heavy rains in some parts of Mexico have caused flooding, including in the state of Veracruz. This, in turn, has forced a halt in railroad traffic between Coatzacalcos and Tierra Blanca, in the southern part of the state; the result has been that “tens” of Central American migrants who use the freight train to approach the United States from the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas are stranded. A Salvadoran consul in Chiapas expressed concern due to the high level of danger in the area.
http://rotativo.com.mx/migracion/decenas-de-migrantes-quedan-varados-por-lluvias/39020/html/
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El Pulso (San Luis Potosi, SLP) 9/9/10
Open season on city mayors
A masked and armed group burst into the City Hall at El Naranjo, San Luis Potosi, early on Wednesday afternoon. They entered the mayor’s office, ordered those inside to the floor, except the mayor, and then shot and killed him on the spot. The mayor’s security guards were two blocks away. (El Naranjo is just a stone’s throw away from the southern border of the state of Tamaulipas. La Cronica de Hoy, a Mexico City paper, added that this was the 14th assassination of a city mayor in Mexico since 2008, and the 10th in that area of San Luis Potosi this week.)
http://www.pulsoslp.com.mx/Notas.aspx?Nota=697
http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=531019
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La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 9/9/10
Mexico seeks halt to migration via the ocean
The delegate of Mexico’s PGR (Dep’t. of Justice) in Tijuana expressed concern for the ever more frequent kidnapping of migrants and also about the case of twenty-some persons recently rescued off a beach in Rosarito. That occurred when a craft capsized shortly after leaving the area with some twenty aboard, who intended to enter the U.S. illegally; the group included three women, one of them pregnant. The delegate added that preventive plans are being made including the interchange of information with U.S. authorities.
http://www.oem.com.mx/lavozdelafrontera/notas/n1774711.htm
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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 9/9/10
Millions of “neither nor” in Mexico
An official of the Public Education Dep’t. of Mexico stated that the country has more than seven million persons who neither study nor work. [The Mexican press calls this category of persons “ni nis” (neither nor.)] The number includes 4 million “who are not available to carry out productive activities in the labor market” because of decisions they made earlier in their lives.
http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=428478
Mexico, coming to a town near you.
” Where’s the obligatory open border comment about this culture being such good ‘Christians’? “
Yeah ;-)
>>An official of the Public Education Dep’t. of Mexico stated that the country has more than seven million persons who neither study nor work. [The Mexican press calls this category of persons “ni nis” (neither nor.)] The number includes 4 million “who are not available to carry out productive activities in the labor market” because of decisions they made earlier in their lives.<<
They ought to come up here because we support our parasites in a much higher style of living.
Ping!
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