AZMEX EXTRA 19 AUG 2018
Comment: How about releasing the Make, Model and Serial Numbers of those 213,000 plus weapons?
Anyone in the federal (U.S.) government interested?
Could be very interesting.
Or is the number just made up? In just five years would be over a million !
Thx.
Approximately 213,000 illegal weapons arrive in Mexico from the US
Details Published on Saturday, August 18, 2018,
Written by Special
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=116967
CD. FROM MEXICO
They feed and empower crime, they said in the Foreign Ministry
More than 200,000 firearms are illegally introduced every year from the United States to Mexico to feed and empower the criminal organizations that operate in this country, experts say.
They agree that this fact is one of the main causes of the increase in violence, as well as the incidence of crime and the number of deaths in the Mexican Republic.
In 2017, the National Public Security System registered 13,671 crimes of federal jurisdiction for violations of the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives, and from January to June 2018 registered 7,070 crimes of the same type.
According to the same source, in 2017 there were 16,989 homicides (16 thousand 830 intentional and 159 guilty) with a firearm, and from January to June 2018 another nine thousand 458 homicides (nine thousand 386 intentional and 72 guilty) .
In addition, between January and June of this year, 92,776 injuries have been committed, of which 5,263, equivalent to 5.69% of the total, were caused by firearms. And also 387 feminicides, of which 93 involve firearms.
In El camino del arma, Topher McDougal, professor and researcher at the University of Dan Diego, estimates that 213,000 weapons are smuggled from the US to Mexico every year.
McDougal's estimate coincides with a statement by the Under Secretary of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas.
More: http://www.sandiego.edu/peace/about/biography.php?profile_id=2016
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Note: Poll in Excelsior news Mexico City. https://www.excelsior.com.mx
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY
213 thousand weapons arrive in Mexico every year.
Do you consider that this fact is one of the main causes of the increase in violence in the country?
YES 3844 (86%) NO 659 (14%). TOTAL. 4503
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Comment: One of the 213k? " to recover the weapon in Mexico" ! No federal charges?
Second arrest made in case involving stolen police rifle
MOLLY SMITH | STAFF WRITER 4 hrs ago
https://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_227e7004-a362-11e8-a1fb-071a0ff0e425.html
ALAMO — A second suspect was arrested this week in connection with a cold case involving a stolen police department rifle.
Ricardo Vera, 46, was arrested Wednesday on a property theft charge, and Alamo Municipal Judge Celia Garcia set his bond on the Class A misdemeanor at $15,000.
Vera allegedly purchased a stolen AR-15 from former Alamo police officer Jesus Ramirez at an unknown date, according to the criminal complaint tied to his arrest. Upon learning the weapon was stolen, Vera then sold the rifle to a buyer in Mexico.
Alamo police arrested Ramirez, 47, July 5 on the same property theft charge, according to jail records. His bond was set at $20,000 and he was released from jail July 6.
Police became aware of the stolen rifle valued at approximately $800 in January 2014, according to the complaint, after an inventory check of patrol rifles and night vision equipment stored inside a gun safe revealed it to be missing. The weapon was subsequently entered into the Texas Crime Information Center and National Crime Information Center databases as "stolen/missing," according to the complaint.
Ramirez resigned from the police department in 2014 for personal reasons, according to Alamo Police Chief Baudelio Castillo, who was not with the department at the time.
Castillo said he re-opened the missing AR-15 case, which he described as a cold case, soon after being hired to lead the department in February of this year. He said additional arrests may be made in the case and added that the department is working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to recover the weapon in Mexico.
"I believe (the theft) was an isolated incident," Castillo said. "We have a great department (and) great officers."
msmith@themonitor.com
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