Posted on 04/19/2011 6:35:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
The signature crimes of the most violent drug cartel in Mexico are its beheading and dismemberment of rival gang members, military personnel, law enforcement officers and public officials, and the random kidnappings and killings of civilians who get caught in its butchery and bloodletting.
But this disparate band of criminals known as Los Zetas is no longer just a concern in Mexico. It has expanded its deadly operations across the southwestern border, establishing footholds and alliances in states from New York to California. Just last year, federal agents tied a cocaine operation in Baltimore to the Zetas.
“Those of us who live and work along the border know they’re already here,” said Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr., whose Texas county lies on the Rio Grande 50 miles southeast of the Zetas’ stronghold of Nuevo Laredo. “There’s already been killings and many residents here are living in fear.”
Sheriff Gonzalez, whose Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition sought help from the federal government to control growing violence along the border, said the rising brutality of Mexican drug gangs, particularly the Zetas, “never stops shocking me.”
Trained as an elite band of Mexican anti-drug commandos, the Zetas evolved into mercenaries for the infamous Gulf Cartel, bringing a new wave of brutality to Mexico’s escalating drug wars. Bolstered by an influx of assassins, bandits, thieves, thugs and corrupt federal, state and local police officers, the Zetas have since evolved into a well-financed and heavily armed drug smuggling force of their own.
Known for mounting the severed heads of their rivals on poles or hanging their dismembered bodies from bridges in cities throughout Mexico, the Zetas have easily become the most feared criminal gang in Mexico — where 35,000 people have been killed in a continuing drug war. Everyone is a potential victim: men, women...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
bttt
Same thing Bush said.
And that damn Nappy has her fingers in her ears and is screeching, LALALALALALA!
Well it’s for sure Bush won’t be doing anything about it, he’s history. What about Zero and Nappy? Sorry, silly question.
Swine will be lions if their prey acts like sheep and are tied up with the niceties of juridical processes.
As for Obama and his little gay dwarf court jester, well, this is just one small part of their very obvious plan to castrate America and turn it into another third world "developing nation" outhouse.
Yes, hanging is appropriate for these scum, in public.
It’s gone beyond the point of where a minor military presence will be enough to contain it.
It is going to take an extended and prominant military action to contain it, but your politicians will not do anything until major parts of the Southwest are under siege.
Couldn’t be possibly that turning our head from the 25 million illegals here already created a nationwide fissure though which this new evil flows?
We are worried about Libya but not Mexico.
Answer: May God bless them and keep those voters and political contributions coming.
I’d like to think that law enforcemnt understands that once these drug cartels become irreversably established like red imported fire ants, it will be their own heads too showing up in ice-chests, and no fruity public outreach programs for “troubled youth” or spiffy swat gear will save them. It’s actually gone beyond a mere law enforcement issue and is rapidly getting into the realm of a military conflict, if it isn’t already.
legalize drugs and it will stop over night
Deny, deny, deny - it's their mantra. ANYTHING for amnesty (and more democrat voters). Crime and corruption go hand in hand.
US Border Patrol Weekly Blotter - April 7 - April 13
Snips:
Laredo Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Zapata, Texas. During processing, the subject admitted to being a member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang. Records checks revealed the subject was an escapee from a prison in Mexico and had been previously removed from the United States.
Laredo Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Freer, Texas. During processing, the subject was identified as a member of the Sureño 13 gang. Records checks revealed the subject had an extensive criminal history and had been previously removed from the United States.
Rio Grande Valley Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Guatemala near Rio Grande City, Texas. During processing, the subject was identified as a member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang. Records checks revealed the subject had been previously removed from the United States.
El Paso Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico in El Paso, Texas. During processing, the subject admitted to being a member of the 18th Street gang. Records checks revealed the subject had an extensive criminal history and had been previously removed from the United States.
Yuma Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from El Salvador near Andrade, California. During processing, the subject admitted to being a member of the MS-13 gang. Records checks revealed the subject had an extensive criminal history and had been previously removed from the United States.
El Centro Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Ocotillo, California. During processing, the subject was identified as a member of the 18th Street gang. Records checks revealed the subject had an extensive criminal history and had been previously removed from the United States.
El Paso Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near El Paso, Texas. During processing, the subject was identified as a member of the Sureño gang. Records checks revealed the subject had an extensive criminal history and had been previously removed from the United States.
Janet said everything is fine and under control.
We'll find out just as soon as he comments on the Nashville flood and the NC tornadoes with 41 dead.
Thanks. That link is one week and only the Border Patrol. There has to be many times that nabbed by LE weekly across the US.
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