AZMEX UPDATE 19-12-17

AZMEX UPDATE 19 DEC 2017


Note: video at link.

Authorities start operation to support travelers in their journey through Sonora
By: Diyeth Arochi | 12/19/2017 1:30 PM

http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Sonora/19122017/1290158-Inicia-autoridades-operativo-para-apoyar-a-viajeros-en-su-travesia-por-Sonora.html

AGUA PRIETA, Sonora (GH)
The Winter Operation began this morning with the purpose of providing facilities to travelers who will travel Sonoran roads in this holiday period.

The Chief Inspector of the Federal Police in Agua Prieta, Carlos Gómez Peralta, mentioned that one of the actions of the operation is to coordinate the three levels of Government in order to help fellow citizens and the population in general.

Also with the weather conditions that are in this border is intended that travelers are not stranded, he said, so they will intensify operations on the routes in more complicated areas, such as Puerto San Luis.

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Note: San Miguel about 15 miles NW of Sasabe.

Previously deported member of MS-13 gang arrested in Arizona
Associated Press
10:25 AM, Dec 19, 2017
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/previously-deported-member-of-ms-13-gang-arrested-in-arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona have arrested a previously deported member of a violent gang and discovered he has been convicted and incarcerated for multiple felony charges.

Tucson Sector agents patrolling near San Miguel took nine people into custody who were in the U.S. illegally.

During a records check, authorities say 45-year-old Ramon Rodriguez-Aparicio of El Salvador was identified as a MS-13 gang member who has an extensive criminal history in California.

Rodriguez-Aparicio now is in federal custody pending prosecution for criminal immigration violations and is facing re-entry charges of an aggravated felon.

The MS-13 gang is believed to have been founded in Los Angeles in the 1980s by immigrants fleeing El Salvador's bloody civil war and has grown into one of the largest street gangs in the U.S.

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PGR incinerates more than one ton of drugs in Sonora
Details Published on Monday December 18, 2017,
El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=103221

Hermosillo, Son

The Attorney General's Office (PGR), in coordination with personnel of the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) and elements of the Ministry of Public Security of Sonora, destroyed a ton, 167 kilograms 100 grams of various drugs.

The incineration event was carried out at the Radio Monitora station in the city of Hermosillo, where was destroyed;
one ton, 130 kilos, 300 grams of cocaine;
24 kilos, 200 grams of heroin;
12 kilos, 600 grams of methamphetamine.

The destroyed narcotics are related to a investigation derived from an seizure carried out on November 29, by elements of the SEDENA (Army) and elements of the State Police, at the military checkpoint "Cucapah", in San Luis Río Colorado.

The Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo (SCRPPA), through its State Delegation in Sonora, ordered the destruction of the drugs, under the supervision of personnel of the Internal Control Body that verified the quantity and weight of the drug to prove the legality of the incineration.

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