Mayhem in Monterrey: 1 cop killed, 7 kidnapped
2011-03-12
Posted by: badanov
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One San Nicholas police officer was shot to death in an apparent ambush, and detachments of the Mexican Army seized a number of weapons and drugs in southern Nuevo Leon.
- Mexican Army units located and seized a number of weapons and munitions in and near Galeana, Nuevo Leon, south of Monterrey Thursday.
- An army detachment found several weapons aboard an abandoned, stolen Chevrolet Suburban in Galeana at about 1100 hrs. Soldiers seized one unidentified rifle, one handgun, one 40mm grenade launcher, 18 weapons magazines and 317 rounds of ammunition.
- In Navidad, Nuevo Leon at about 1300 hrs, a Mexican Army unit located an abandoned Honda van with a number of weapons and munitions aboard including two unidentified rifles, one handgun, 36 weapons magazines, four rounds of ammunition, one 40mm grenade, two hand grenades and 19 communication devices.
- At 1400 hrs an army unit located another Honda van with more weapons and munitions aboard including 11 rifles, one handgun, two 40mm grenade launcher attachments, six hand grenades, one 40mm grenade, 91 weapons magazines and four communication devices.
- In other action also in Navidad, army units seized more than 23 kilograms of crack cocaine divided for retail sale.
- In La Trinidad at about 1700 hrs, a Mexican Army detachment arrested two individuals suspected of ties with Los Zetas criminal gang following an apparent traffic stop of a truck. Inside the truck were seized four unidentified rifles, 910 rounds of ammunition, at least two hand grenades, military-style uniforms and other contraband.
- A raid of a "narcoranch" in Garcia, Nuevo Leon by a detachment of the Mexican Army yielded three suspects arrested and three kidnapping victims released from captivity Friday.
The El Fraile ranch in the Valles del Lincoln municipality was the site of the raid, where Apolinar Diaz Garcia of Saltillo, Coahuila, 17, Raul Ramirez of General Teran and an unidentified woman from Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon were freed. The male victims had been tortured and were starved.
The three suspected captors were not identified. At the site soldiers seized five guns, an unspecified amount of ammunition and other materiel.
- Six unidentified Nuevo Leon state police agents were abducted at gunpoint in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon early Friday morning. The officers were patrolling aboard their official vehicles an area around the Guadalupe Livestock Exposition near the intersection of Avenida Juarez and Calle Lerdo de Tejada in the Las Cantera colony.
Armed suspects aboard several trucks fired on the outnumbered police agents and forcing them to surrender and leaving the official vehicles behind.
In Montemorelos, a municipal police officer was abducted at gunpoint Friday morning. Ismael Garcia Casanova and his unidentified female partner were buying breakfast at Tacos El Pavo near the intersection of calle Gorostiza and Avenida Capitan Alonso de Leon, when three armed suspects dismounted a pickup truck, fired shots and took the officer with them. The suspects then fled with their victim from the scene on Avenida Captain Alonso de Leon
- One San Nicholas de las Garza municipal police officer was shot to death and another police officer was wounded in an apparent ambush in San Nicholas, Nuevo Leon Friday morning. Armed suspects travelling aboard an unreleased number of vehicles intercepted the police agents and fired on them near the intersection of calles Romulo Garza and Peña Guerra in the Peña Guerra colony. Juan Valdez Acosta, 39, was struck once in the head with gunfire killing him instantly. His unidentified partner was struck in the legs.
In a related, subsequent incident, seven Nuevo Leon state police agents and two municipal police officers were wounded in a car crash as they attempted to stop armed suspects who may have been the shooters in the killing of Valdez Acosta. The crash took place near the intersection of calles Ruiz Cortines and Valle de Guadalajara as two vehicles carrying the police agents collided.