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More Mexican Mayhem
2011-01-04
Posted by: badanov

31 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 31 individuals were murdered in northern Mexico in ongoing drug and gang related violence, including three individuals, including a two year old child, shot to death in Caborca, Sonora.

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• An unidentified man was found mutilated and shot to death near Chihuahua city Friday. The victim was found on kilometer 23 of the Chihuahua-Juraez highway with his hands severed. A message was left with the body saying the victim was a car thief.
• An unidentified man was found dead and half buried in a remote area of Chihuahua. The victim was found on kilometer 52 of the Juarez-Porvenir road between Guadalupe and Praxedis.
• An inmate at a Chihuahua prison was found hanged in his cell Saturday. Victor Flores Arzaga, 32, was found at the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) in Achilles Serdan hanged with a cord from the bars of his cell. Flores Arzaga was serving time for murder beginning June 2010.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Sunday afternoon. The victim was shot by armed suspects at his home near the corner of Teloloapan and Coatepin in the Galeana colony. Reports say the victim was a drug dealer. Several retail packages of marijuana and cocaine were found at the scene.
• A man was fond shot to death on the Juarez-Porvenir road Sunday. Catarino Herrera, 34, was in his Toyota sedan parked at the San Jorge recreation center when he was shot.
• Two unidentified men were found murdered in Juarez Saturday in two different crimes, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. One victim was found shot to death near the intersection of calles Higuera and Dalias in the Insurgentes colony, while the second was found near the corner of calle Puerto de Palos and Libramiento Independencia with an axe to his head.
• An unidentified man was found shot to death in northern Chihuahua, Chihuahua Sunday. The victim was found in a vacant lot near the intersection of calles Arroyo de Sacramento and Circuito Universitario in the Arroyas colony near his Ford Lobo pickup truck. The victim was apparently made an attempt to flee his attackers when he was shot.
• A law office in Juarez was vandalized and burned Monday. The crime took place near the junction of Papaloapan and Bustamante in the Los Nogales colony where vandals vandalize the interior and set it a fire after leaving a message scrawled in the wall: "These whores are dying to pay a debt."
• An unidentified man was kidnapped early Monday morning. The victim was taken from his Jeep Cherokee near the intersection of calles Cerocahui and Tomochi in the Villas Residencial colony. The SUV had indicators it had been fired on.
• Two Chihuahua state police agents were ambushed in Juarez Monday, managed to escape death. The Policia Ministeriales were aboard their official pickup truck near the corner of calles Simona Barba and Plutarco Elias near the Plaza CELU when they were attacked by armed suspects. The agents returned fire forcing their attackers to flee aboard a Ford Aerostar van waiting near the intersection of calles Pedro Rosales and Valentin Fuentes.
• A man was shot to death at a Juarez medical clinic Monday. Saul Tercero had been taken to the Cruz Roja Salvarcar by his brother, Jorge Tercero, and as he was receiving medical attention for an previous shooting, armed suspects burst into the clinic and killed him. Jorge Tercero was wounded in this attack at the clinic as well.
• Two unidentified youths were shot to death in Juarez Monday afternoon. The victims were shot near the intersection of calles Luis Salgado and Calixto Contreras where a male and female team arrived and shot the pair. The shooting took place in front of the Luis Salcido elementary school, students of which were still on vacation.
• Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez Monday afternoon, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first victim was found dead aboard his Nissan Altima sedan near the corner of calles Fosforo and Violetas in the Altavista colony in an area called La Cima. The second victim was found gagged and hands bound, shot to death near the corner of calles Zinacantecos and Quichez in the Azteca colony. The victim was apparently a kidnap victim.
• An unidentified woman was found shot to death in a remote area in Chihuahua state. The victim was found on kilometer 192 of the Juarez-Delicias road gagged and shot.
• Three unidentified individuals were shot to death in two different crimes in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first victim being being transported aboard a Volkswagen Jetta after a shooting in the Tierra Nueva colony when he was intercepted and finished off near the corner of calles Puerto de Palos and Puerto Alburquerque. Two men were shot to death near the intersection of calles Corindon and Marfil in the Libertad colony. One victim was found aboard a Chevrolet Astro van and another was lying dead on the sidewalk nearby.
• Eight individuals were murdered in the first three days of 2011 in the Mexican state of Sonora, including a two year old child, according to the Mexican daily El Imparcial. Two men and a two year old child were shot to death in Caborca, Sonora by armed suspects using AK-47 assault rifles. The victims were identified as Jesus Manuel Baez Diaz, 29, Emilio Osorio, 24 and Jesus Valenzuela Beltran Geovany Rabago, 2. Also in Caborca at a residence later that afternoon Jesus Duran Estrada, 40, was shot to death. Oscar Avila Encinas, 25, was stabbed to death in Hermosillo, Sonora in the Las Minitas colony. In Yecora Ramon Ribota Amarillas, 28, Badiraguato, Sinaloa, was shot once in the temple after a fight with two other unidentified men. In San Luis Rio Colorado, Valentin Rivera Estrada, 25, died from a stabbing wound he received in a brawl. Lastly, Ernesto Zavala Bojorquez, 24, was shot to death outside a grocery store in Esperanza, Sonora.
• An unidentified kidnapping suspect was shot to death by Mexican Marines near Puerto Penasco Monday, Four other suspects were arrested in the same incident. The victim attempted to flee arrest when he was fired on and crashed the sedan he was driving.
• A deputy police chief of Empalme, Sonora was shot to death Sunday. Miguel Acosta Garcia was shot outside his home in the Juarez colony. Acosta Garcia was leaving his home for work when armed suspects aboard a vehicle intercepted him. AK-47 assault rifles were used in the shooting. Acosta Garcia leaves a wife and a son behind. Empalme is about 180 kilometers south of Hermosillo, Sonora.
• Two men were found dead in Mexicali, Baja California Sunday in two separate crimes, according to the Mexican daily La Cronica. Fermin Camacho Duarte, 23, was found stabbed to death on Calle Estrella in the Villas del Rey colony. An unidentified an was found shot to death on Avenida Alfonso González García and Calle Ayuntamiento in the Ejido Coahuila colony. A single 9mm spent casing was found at the scene.
• A man was shot and wounded in Tijuana, Baja California. José Ines Martinez Pulido, 18, was shot by four armed suspects riding aboard a sedan near the junction of calles Segunda and Benito Juarez in the Ejido Matamoros colony.
• Two individuals were found dead in two separate incidents in Tijuana, Baja California, according to the Mexican daily Frontera. An unidentified woman was found shot to death near the corner of calles San Jorge and Mexicali in the Magisterial colony. The victim had a message left with her, the content of which was not revealed. A severed human head was found on a bridge in the Panamericano colony.
• Five individuals were shot to death in three crimes in Durango state, according to the Mexican daily El Diario de Coahuila. Three men were found shot to death in the town of Poanas. Jorge Luis Soto Alvarado, 21, Alejandro Soto Alvarado, 25, and Santos Moreno, 31, were killed when armed suspects fired on them as they were aboard a vehicle on calle Juárez in the Zona Centro. A total of 50 spent shell casings from AK-47 assault rifles were found at the scene. Lisandro Alonso Rodriguez, 32, was found shot to death near the intersection of avenidas Valle del Guadiana and Tamazula in the Industrial Lagunero industrial park in Gomez Palacio. Casings from 9mm and .38 Super weapons were found at the scene. Lastly, in Toledo José Alonso Martinez, 23 was shot to death as he was driving his Chevrolet pickup truck with an unidentified female companion. The companion was not hurt in the shooting.