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Police believe the grenade a child found near a creek was live.An eleven year old boy made a surprising discovery while out at a creek in Lampasas. He found what police believe was a live grenade near the 4th Street Bridge along Sulphur Creek just after 7p.m. According to Lampasas police, the child picked up the grenade before alerting his parents who called police. Fort Hood's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team was called in to handle the grenade. Officers say it's not clear how long the grenade had been there, but judging from the amount of rust and dirt on it,...

A grenade exploded outside of Reynosa’s city hall early Tuesday, but reportedly no one was injured. Two explosive devices were thrown by unknown individuals near the Reynosa city hall about 12:20 a.m. Tuesday, said a Mexican law enforcement official, who added that only one of the devices exploded. Authorities quickly responded to the area to conduct the necessary investigations and to try to identify those responsible for the attack, he said. The official wouldn’t comment on whether members of organized crime were behind the attack or if the grenade was thrown as a message or as a way to discredit...

Zetitas sought by gov't, cartel foes Authorities were out in force patrolling the streets of Reynosa after a string of attacks allegedly carried out by Zetitas — young Zeta foot soldiers — that caused panic among its residents. Details were not readily available, but authorities and a group of gunmen clashed Sunday morning in the Anzalduas residential area. Tamaulipas state authorities said the brief clash left no one injured or dead. Those patrolling the streets included Mexican Federal Police, the Mexican Army, the Mexican Navy, Tamaulipas State Police and Reynosa Municipal Police, said a Mexican law enforcement official. And two...

Mexico City – Three suspected organized crime gummen were killed and another three were wounded in a clash near the northeastern Mexican city of Matamoros with army troops, who seized more than 100 weapons and nearly a score of vehicles after the gun battle, military sources said. The Defense Secretariat's 4th Military Region said in a statement that 83 automatic rifles, 18 handguns, five grenade launchers, a rocket launcher, 11 fragmentation grenades, 28 40 mm grenades, 315 ammunition clips, more than 18,000 rounds of ammunition, 17 vehicles and eight kilos of marijuana were confiscated in Wednesday's operation. The operation began...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican federal police said Saturday they discovered a basement arsenal hidden behind the mirrors of a home gym that included three anti-aircraft guns, dozens of grenades, a grenade launcher, AK-47s and other high-powered weapons. The neatly ordered stockpile found in an upscale neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, also contained several makes of machine guns, rifles, a shotgun and more than 26,000 ammunition cartridges, according to Raul Avila Ibarra, the federal police commissioner in charge of the city. Police say they discovered the weapons Friday while searching a house near the...

One soldier and one gunman are dead following a fierce battle between alleged members of the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas in Miguel Aleman early Thursday morning. Mexico's Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) confirmed the deaths during a statement released Thursday evening. SEDENA officials reported that a battle between former allies the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas erupted around 5 a.m. Thursday. Several businesses and other buildings were burned and damaged during the firefight. Soldiers were deployed to the area to fight both groups of armed men. One of the groups fled towards Ciudad Mier while the other stayed to...

Morning of April 21, 2011 - My Brother and I are soldiers in the Army National Guard. My brother, James Bellow, is currently deployed on the Texas/Mexico border. In the early morning hours of April 21st, 2011, my brother witnessed and recorded a MASSIVE firefight and Battle in Mexico, right across from the city of Roma, TX. This battle lasted for hours and included machine gun fire and several explosions from grenades of mortars. My brother filmed some of the footage of the battle on his phone, which can be seen below: Gunfire heard during the battle in Mexico right...

The Mexican Army announced the seizure Saturday of a large weapons cache that included machine guns, rocket launchers, grenades, explosives, mortars and even one crossbow. The seizure occurred at about 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to the announcement. A military convoy was conducting routine patrols through the city streets when they spotted a group of men who suspiciously ran into a house in order to elude capture, the army said. The soldiers secured the house but were not able to find the men but they seized a weapons cache and $59,700 in cash. The weapons seized included 59 assault rifles, 21...

At least eleven bodies are found in Nuevo Laredo yesterday. However, since Mexican media doesn't report murders when instructed by drug traffickers, yesterday's death toll is unofficial. The eleven deaths are confirmed through the Mexican military that found the bodies thrown in several different areas of Nuevo Laredo. The torture and shooting victims were found along the highway to Monterrey. The bodies all had small posters on their body, with writing presumably from rival cartels. Three other drug cartel members were killed when Mexican soldiers stopped an 18-wheeler and gunmen fired shots from inside the trailer. An explosion, believed to...

It took him 400 rounds, 17 grenades, and a machine gun tripod used as a weapon, but one British Gurkha soldier single-handedly beat back an attack by 30 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last summer. And now he‘s getting one of his military’s highest honors: Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, a 31-year-old from Bima in western Nepa and part of the Gurkha regiment serving the British Military, is receiving the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for bravery. It’s well deserved. According to his superiors, Pun’s fearsom fighting is responsible for saving the lives of at least three other soldiers. Yesterday, he explained his unbelievable battle...

The Gunwalker scandal proceeds apace. Senator Grassley’s still fighting the Department of Justice for a full accounting of the ATF Gunrunner program. That’s the anti-gun smuggling interdiction effort that allowed indeed enabled illegally-obtained weapons to “slip through the net,” into the hands of men who used them to murder U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry. The truth about the ATF’s extra-legal bungling and the subsequent government cover-up—which likely extends to Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder–has yet to ping the mainstream media radar. Meanwhile, it’s important to note that northern Mexico continues its descent into lawlessness. And that the...

At least two grenades were thrown Monday evening along a busy boulevard in Matamoros that lies close to two international bridges. Sources confirmed that two explosions went off at approximately 7:30 p.m. along Alvaro Obregon Boulevard near the intersection with Calle Sexta. Five minutes before, a grenade had previously gone off near the Colonia Jardin neighborhood, which is close to a military base belonging to the Mexican Navy. Details of the damages or if the explosions caused any injuries or casualties were not readily available, but at least two ambulances were called to the scene as authorities cordoned off the...

Sources confirmed that at least two grenades where thrown at the Matamoros General Hospital, also known as Alfredo Pumarejo. The grenade attack took place between 8:30 and 9:30 pm Fridayl, which was under guard by the Mexican Military, said a mexican law enforcement official. Information on the number of people injured or killed by the blast was unknown Friday night. There were no details available if more grenades were thrown but didn't go off A source with firsthand knowledge of criminal activity said the attack was likely carried out by Zetas in an effort to "calentar la plaza" or stir...

MONTERREY, Mexico — The police chief and all 38 police officers of a northeastern Mexican town have quit following a series of drug cartel attacks, including the decapitation of two of their colleagues. Soldiers, state and federal police had been deployed to patrol General Teran, a town along a notorious drug-smuggling route to the U.S. border, said Mayor Ramon Villagomez. The police quit after the discovery Wednesday of the mutilated bodies of two officers who had been kidnapped by gunmen two days earlier. The killings followed three attacks on the police headquarters since December. Gunmen hurled grenades and sprayed the...

BROWNSVILLE — A “suspicious object protruding from the brush” in Starr County led Border Patrol agents to a weapons cache that included an AK-47, three M4-style assault rifles, hand grenades, military-style uniforms and other related items, Customs and Border Protection said Monday. The seizure occurred Friday on the banks of the Rio Grande near Fronton, a small community about five miles west of Roma. Agents reported finding the four rifles, two hand grenades, a ballistic vest, two ammunition-carrying vests, three two-way radios, two uniforms, and 16 fully-loaded 30-round magazines. All weapons except the grenades were turned over to Immigration and...

Leaving the audience wanting more is the goal of every musician, unless you're a musician in violence-torn Mexico. Two members of local group La Excelencia were murdered in a Guadalajara bar early Monday morning after refusing to play more songs past closing time, El Occidental of Mexico reported. Jonathan Martinez, 22, and Gustavo Alejandro, 35, were pronounced dead outside the Vida Divina nightclub, gunned down by unidentified assailants with suspected ties to the country's notorious drug gangs. A third victim, identified as bar patron Leslie Soltero, 26, was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to her ankle....

Sources have confirmed that three “Zetitas” who were arrested in Matamoros last week have been killed in a prison riot. Mexican authorities said only that three men, all aged 18-20, died over the weekend in a riot at the Matamoros State Prison, called CEDES, in the rural area known as Santa Adelaida. The men died from blunt force trauma and from stab wounds from makeshift knives, according to a law enforcement official who asked not to be named because of security concerns. The official wouldn’t comment on the identity of the slain men but did say they were new to...

TECALITLAN, Jalisco -- Authorities in Tecalitlan in the Mexican state of Jalisco confirmed there was a gun battle between rival gangs that killed 11 people during a Virgin of Guadalupe celebration. According to the Jalisco state attorney general's office, armed men arrived in three cars and opened fire on another group of gunmen in the main plaza of Tecalitlan. One of the gunmen hurled a grenade. Another man, the brother of one of those killed in the plaza, was found shot dead by a car on the highway, according to authorities. Authorities said they found two banners in the car....

A California man accused of robbing banks and assembling what may be the largest cache of homemade explosives ever found in the U.S. was ordered held on $5 million bail Monday.

Mexican authorities announced the capture of five men after an intense firefight on the outskirts of Matamoros. According to a press release from Mexico’s Federal Police, on Monday afternoon police encountered a group of men with firearms in a sport utility truck traveling on the Matamoros-Reynosa highway. Gunfire ensued and authorities gave chase, catching up with the vehicle in Colonia Ignacio Zaragoza. The release states that the encounter left four police officers injured. A Mexican law enforcement official later said that one civilian was grazed on the head by a stray bullet but was not seriously hurt. Police arrested five...