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Mayhem in Monterrey: 1 Dead, 7 Wounded
2011-01-10
Posted by: badanov

Several shootings involving criminal gangs, and several raids involving Mexican security forces in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon have left one dead and at least seven wounded including municipal police officers, according to Mexican press accounts.

• Several detachments of the Mexican 4th Military Zone raided several locations in and around Monterrey Saturday.
  • An unidentified male individual was arrested Saturday morning in Guadalupe, a suburb of Monterrey in the 21st de Enero colony, with a quantity of marijuana, four rifles, one handgun, 34 weapons magazines, 843 rounds of ammunition and a vehicle.
  • Thirty minutes later Mexican Army personnel on patrol in San Javier, municipality of General Treviño, Nuevo León, seized three rifles, three magazines, 62 rounds of ammunition and 2 vehicles.
  • In a surprise raid in San Agustin, Los Herreras municipality, an unidentified male was arrested along with a 9mm pistol, two magazines, 31 rounds of 9mm ammunition and one vehicle.
  • Military personnel recovered five stolen vehicles, three in Sabinas Hidalgo and two in the town of Vallecillos.

• In Cadereyta, a small town east of Monterrey several armed suspects aboard several pickup trucks fired on police headquarters using small arms and hand grenades late Saturday night. Two municipal police officers were wounded in the assault, and were escorted by soldiers to the hospital to guard against further attacks. Reports say the assault lasted five minutes.
• In General Teran, 20 kilometers south of Cadereyta, the municipal police headquarters was also fired on by armed suspects using small arms and two hand grenades. Five civilians were reported hurt in the attack including two women in the nearby town square, mainly by the hand grenade. The other hand grenade failed to detonate.
• A man was shot to death by presumed members of organized crime in the commission of an armed robbery early Sunday morning in Allende, about 30 kilometers due south of Cadereyta. Rodolfo Rodriguez Cantu, 43, was drinking with several others at a business when armed suspects carrying assault rifles stopped by and demanded belongings. Rodriguez Cantu was shot as an intimidation measure by an unidentified member of the gang.