Mayhem in Northeastern Mexico: Bad Guys Kill 8 Cops
2011-05-21
Posted by: badanov
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Eight Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon municipal police officers were murdered by armed suspects in three separate ambushes, while 11 armed suspects were killed by Mexican security forces in the state of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
- Three Mexican Naval Infantry were wounded in two shootouts with armed suspects said to be members of the Gulf drug cartel Wednesday. The marine unit was near the village of Villa de Casas on the Ciudad Victoria- Soto Marina highway, where an armed group had set up a checkpoint to extort money from motorists. One pickup truck fled the scene while the occupants of another truck fired on the unit as it arrived. Marines return fire forced the shooters to abandon their vehicle and fled into the brush.
About a kilometer away from the checkpoint the Marine unit encountered armed suspects with the second vehicle who opened fire on the unit wounding three marines. A single youth was captured by the unit following the firefight.
Secured were eight rifles, four grenades, 2,206 rounds of ammunition, 54 magazines, 200 bundles of cocaine and 69 bundles of marijuana as well as tactical gear.
- A Mexican Marine unit exchanged gunfire with armed suspects in Monclova, Coahuila Tuesday night. The pursuit and gunfight took place on bulevar Harold Pape where armed suspects aboard a vehicle ignored orders to pull over. About 30 minutes later, security unit set up a checkpoint in the busy commercial area to divert drivers from the area.
- Two armed suspects were killed by Mexican Army troops in Juarez, Nuevo Leon Thursday night. The army unit encountered a convoy of six vehicles near Caderteya and ordered them to stop. Instead, occupants in the vehicle opened fire on the unit for initiated a pursuit. One vehicle, a stolen Toyota Corolla sedan became separated from the convoy along calle Flor de Loto near Juarez, Nuevo Leon. The driver crashed the vehicle into a berm where the road ended. Soldiers found two dead in the car including the driver, and they seized an AK-47 assault rifle. The remainder of the convoy carrying other suspects escaped the unit.
- Armed suspects damaged an auto dealership building with AR-15 assault rifle gunfire in Monterrey, Nuevo leon Thursday night. The suspects were riding in a multi vehicle convoy on Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada in the Villas de Lux colony when they opened up on the facade of a Renault dealership. Several new and used vehicles were damaged in the attack. Patrons in a nearby restaurant witnessed the attack, but were unharmed.
- A shootout between Escobedo, Nuevo Leon municipal police officers and armed suspects left one taxi driver wounded in the crossfire Thursday night. The attack and pursuit took place in the Lomas de San Genaro colony and ended in the Sendero colony. Ecobedo police attempted to stop two suspicious vehicles, but were fired on initiating a pursuit. Police lost track of the suspects on a road going to San Nicolas de los Garza.
- Three Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon police officers were shot to death in an ambush Wednesday night. The officers were on patrol near the intersection of the Monterrey-Reynosa highway and Avenida Xochimilco in the Xochimilco colony when armed suspects aboard several SUVs fired on them using small arms and a hand grenade.
Suspects abandoned a Toyota pickup truck at the scene where was seized one AK-47 assault rifle, ammunition and tactical gear.
- Three Guadalupe traffic police officers were shot to death in an ambush Monday night. The attack took place near the intersection of avenidas Miguel Alemän yand De la Luz in the Residencial Minerva colony where a police captain were on patrol. Captain Cesario Arriaga Leija died at the scene. As the suspects circulated in the street, they fired on a patrol car and killed Marco Antonio Mejia Cepeda and Arturo Javier Ruiz as they were in their patrol vehicle. Reports say AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles were used in the attacks.
- Two Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon auxillary police officers were shot to death in Guadalupe Thursday evening. Andres Felipe Mejia Quintanar, 55, and Maria del Carmen Soto Garcia, 32 were near the intersection of avenidas Benito Juarez andn Segunda when armed suspects travelling aboard a two vehicle convoy shot and killed them. More than 50 shots were fired at the officers.
- Four armed suspects were killed by a unit of the Mexican Army in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon Thursday night. The army unit encountered a Jeep SUV near the intersection of avenidas Xochimilco and Vaquerias between the Xochimilco colony and the ejido Las Vaquerias where armed suspects aboard the vehicle fired on the unit prompting return fire.
Army rifle fire hit the suspects as they attempted to throw the vehicle in reverse to escape.
In the aftermath soldiers seized three AK-47 assault rifles, one AR-15 assault rifle, one .45 caliber pistol, dozens of rounds of ammunition and other weapons contraband.
- Five armed suspects were killed in a gunfight with a detachment of the Mexican Army in San Fernando, Tamaulipas Monday. Reports say the unit was fired on and returned fire killing the suspects. Five rifles and a handgun were seized following the firefight. San Fernando is the site where one of the wirst mass murders in Mexican history took place last month.