Border patrol reports detail crime, drugs

The Times-Herald

From Staff Reports
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Daily reports from the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers offer translations of news reports from Latin America relating to immigration, drug trafficking and related crime.

People who want to get the reports can sign up by e-mailing m3report@yahoo.com . Here are some recent excerpts from NAFBPO updates:

• El Diario (Chihuahua, Chih.) 1/19/08 — Search of a farm at Luz Corral de Villa St. #2415, Chihuahua City, revealed a "narco grave" with six human remains, two of which might be those of two police officers who have disappeared.
• El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 1/19/08 — Two "wrapped" male murder victims were found on the west side of Nogales, Sonora. Their faces were taped and they had been beaten before being repeatedly shot.
• La Jomada (Mexico City) 1/19/08 — Mexican Special Forces personnel went into the Nuevo Laredo "Preventive Police" facility and questioned, disarmed and took away all other police equipment from six members of the police. The six were later transported to Mexico City where they will be confined for further interrogation.
• El Universal (Mexico City) 1/20/08 — Three more victims of torture and murder in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, makes four in two days for that locality. In Oaxaca, they found the duct-taped body of a man. The duct tape was used both to blind him and to tie the hands of the man who was shot twice in the head. Other execution victims: in Chiapas near the border with Guatemala and, on the other end of the country where three people were executed by organized crime in Chihuahua. One of them had been shot 15 times including the "coup de grace." And Uruachic, in the Sierra Tarahumara region of Chihuahua where marihuana and poppy are grown, was the scene of two more execution murders.