Nuevo Leon: Mayhem in Monterrey, 3 Dead
2010-08-02
Posted by: badanov
Google Translate from a string of articles on Milenio.com For a map, here.
Saturday morning dawned in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon with several streets blocked through action by criminal gangs, according to the Mexican daily Milenio.
The actions took place primarily in the suburbs of Escobedo and San Nicolas. The first action was the hijacking of a tractor trailer rig which was used to block the Northwest Bypass. A shuttle bus and a refrigerated trailer were also hijacked and emplaced as a block on other parts of the thoroughfare.
Another block was made by several stolen sedans on Avenida Adolfo López Mateosin the Azteca district in front of the Metropolitan Hospital and where the street intersects with Calle Moctezuma.
Other similar block were located at Avenida Los Angeles in the Valle del Nogalar district.
No one was reported hurt in the several blocks.
| Why'd they do it? Practicing for something or just the sheer joy of kidnapping large vehicles? |
Narcobloques are usually done for one of three reasons: 1) The criminal gang wants to impeded movement of police/military forces in an area. 2) A response to a reverse such as an arrest of a capo or 3) they want to cover their own withdrawal. In Nuevo Laredo last week, for example, Los Zetas used these tactics frequently to prevent the Mexican Army from closing and engaging, and when they wanted to escape an police or army cordon.
At 1900 hrs. three armed suspects riding aboard a Jeep Grand Cherokee open fired on a Mexican Army patrol near the intersection of Avenida Felix U. Gómez and Madero in downtown Monterrey.
An ecotaxi
| Ecotaxi? What's that? |
In the Jeep investigators found several guns.
At 1500 hrs. elements of the Mexican Army on patrol on the highway to China near the Empalme Los Herrera farm found two unidentified corpses in a state of decomposition. Both victims were males in their 30s and were bound by their hands and blindfolded.