Military Mayhem in Nuevo Leon: 10 busted, 3 hurt
2011-04-13
Posted by: badanov
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Mexican Army and Naval Infantry units were involved in counternarcotics operations in Nuevo Leon over the weekend including a lengthy firefight with an armed group following a series of robberies in Monterrey early Friday morning.
- Two unidentified Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon police officers were hurt Monday afternoon in an attempt to intervene in a kidnapping. The officers were aboard their official patrol vehicle in the Tres Caminos colony when they witnessed armed suspects force a victim into a vehicle. The ensuing chase ended when the driver of the police vehicle crashed into a natural gas line on Avenida Israel Cavazos. The suspect vehicle escaped.
- Eight roadblocks were reported in Guadalupe and Monterrey Monday afternoon set by armed suspects hijacking private vehicles. Most of the blocks centered around Avenida Israel Cavazos, but also included calles Reynosa, Papaloapan and Juarez. All blocks were released within a few minutes.
- A man was lightly wounded in a grenade attack in Monterrey Monday afternoon. Juan Alberto Saucedo Franco, 25, was near the intersection of Bulevar Diaz Ordaz and Avenida Juarez in the La Fama colony at about 1630 hrs when the grenade detonated. It is unknown how the grenade was delivered.
- Detachments of the Mexican Army conducted four counternarcorics operations in and around China, Nuevo Leon last Friday yielding the arrest of 10 suspects, and an amount of munitions and drugs.
- On the General Bravo-China highway at about 1000 hrs a Mexican Army patrol was fired on by armed suspects who were travelling aboard two vehicles near the intersection of calles Padre Mier and Bernardo Reyes. Apparently army counterfire was sufficient to end the confrontation and affect the arrest of five suspects. Seized in the aftermath were the two vehicles, two rifles, 25 weapons magazines, ammunition, and weapons furniture.
- Based on information gained from suspect interrogation the unit went to an address on Calle Bernardo Reyes at about 1030 hrs and arrested two suspects, and seized two rifles and 17 weapons magazines.
- At about 1130 hrs on Calle Padre Mier the army unit went to a location and arrested two suspects, and seized two rifles, 12 weapons magazines and two doses of marijuana.
- Finally at 1530 hrs near General Bravo an army unit arrested a lone individual, and seized four rifles, two grenades, 1,542 rounds of AK-47 assault rifles ammunition and two camo pants.
- A large criminal group involved in two home invasion and liquor store robberies were intercepted by a Mexican Marine unit last Friday. Reports say about 40 armed suspects aboard ten vehicles conducted home invasion robberies in two residences in calle Cerezo taking jewellery, cash and electronic devices before going to a liquor store near the corner of calles Camelia and Cipres. From the store the suspects took several boxes of liquor and about $15,000 pesos (USD $1,277.43) in cash. Just as they were leaving the suspects began firing their AR-15 assault rifles in the store wounding an unidentified worker. The suspects began walking to Avenida Felix U. Gomez with their loot when a Mexican Marine unit arrived on the scene. The ensuing firefight lasted for several minutes during which time several suspects managed to escape. Several suspects were also wounded and an unknown number were arrested. Apparently the firefight was so intense at one point doctors at a nearby public medical clinic decided to close the facility and take refuge elsewhere.