Jeff Dunsavage's Blog Posts Tagged 'cartel' (12)

Days after the Mexican Navy announced it detained an alleged leader of the Zetas drug cartel who is suspected in the 2010 killing of American David Hartley on a lake near the U.S.-Mexico border, the victim’s wife said she's hopeful the suspect could provide answers to what happened to her husband.

"Maybe he knows where David’s remains are, or where he's located," Tiffany Hartley, the victim's widow, said.

Tiffany Hartley said she was with her husband riding Jet Skis on Falcon…

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Thousands turned out to honor fallen Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata on Tuesday.

Law enforcement bean arriving before sunrise ahead of the funeral at the Brownsville Event center. Read article.

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Erika Gandara, police chief of Guadalupe, Mexico, has not been seen or heard from since being abducted two days before Christmas. Her predecessor was murdered and decapitated, his head was found in an ice chest. Gandara, 28, a single woman with no children, was the only applicant for the job and its salary of $580 per month.

 

"We have no police, no security, no electricity, no water, nothing," said one 25-year-old woman who was afraid to give her name.…

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Missionary Nancy Davis and her husband were fleeing drug cartel gunmen when she was fatally shot. Read the full story.

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Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, local media reported. The victims, all male, were discovered at dawn near a shopping mall along with several, threatening hand-written messages that are typically left as a calling card by drug cartels.The tourist destination of Acapulco has been plagued in recent years with drug violence as the country's cartels fight for drug transport routes.… Continue

The following is reprinted with permission from Costa Rica Krav Maga:

Several announcements have been made by the U.S. government in the past few months stating Mexican cartels are moving into Costa Rica. Why? Maybe as a result of stepped up policing in other countries. This includes crackdowns on known air trafficking routes and a much more aggressive Cost Guard. This has resulted in increased overland…

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Mexican police on Friday detained a minor accused of working as a gunman for a drug cartel after videos and photos surfaced online of fresh-faced boys mugging for the camera with guns and corpses. One video, briefly posted on YouTube, showed a youth, apparently in his teens, confessing to working for a branch of the Beltran Leyva cartel. The youth tells an unseen questioner that his gang was paid $3,000 per killing. "When we don't find the rivals, we kill innocent people, maybe a construction… Continue

His murder (I guess now they're accepting that it was a murder) is believed to be a case of mistaken identity. Read full article.

A Mexican police commander investigating the disappearance of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by pirates was killed, U.S. and Mexican officials said Tuesday.The severed head of Commander Rolando Flores was delivered to authorities in Mexico on Tuesday. Read full article

Wells Fargo & Co. has admitted in court that its Wachovia unit failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers -- including the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its August 2010 issue.



Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed… Continue