AZMEX I3 26 NOV 2019
19-year-old arrested for smuggling 3 men into US
Anthony Victor Reyes 4:17 pm November 26, 2019
https://kvoa.com/news/local-news/2019/11/26/19-year-old-arrested-for-smuggling-3-men-into-us/
TUCSON – A teenager from Phoenix was arrested near Nogales Monday after she allegedly attempted to smuggle
three undocumented immigrants into the United States,
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a 19-year-old woman from Phoenix was pulled over by Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents
after the agents reportedly saw three men run into her vehicle on Interstate 19.
CBP said the three men reportedly fled the vehicle on foot shortly after the vehicle stop.
However, the three were all apprehended, according to CBP.
The men, who were later determined to be from Mexico, were said to be illegally present in the U.S.
They were 21, 30 and 31 years old, CBP says.
After further investigation, CBP determined that the Phoenix teen was incarcerated for 60 days for human smuggling charges.
Authorities say the conviction occurred about seven months before Monday's incident.
https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1199456892914782208
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ALSO: https://kyma.com/news/state-regional-news/2019/11/26/phoenix-woman-19-arrested-for-human-smuggling-again/
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 26-11-19
AZMEX UPDATE 26 NOV 2019
Note: Some of us have "heard" of him. Photos, etc. at link:
Comment: BTW, It is still the " American" doper who financed him and the other cartels.
Time to lock up all those dopers?
Thx
A Mexican drug kingpin you've never heard of is infiltrating small-town America
By Julia Musto | Fox News
hhttps://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-americat
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-america
Small-town Mexican drug lord 'El Mencho' infiltrates small town America
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes's drug cartel empire is devastating small-town families across the country. Former DEA Agent Edward Follis explains.
Ruben "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," has flipped the world of drug trafficking on its head,
according to former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Edward Follis.
Appearing on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, Follis said the Mexican drug kingpin's distribution models and renewed tactics
are what makes him so deadly and his reach so extensive. They're also why small-town America is being devastated.
MEXICAN CARTELS POISONING US NATIONAL PARKS THROUGH HIDDEN POT GROWING OPERATIONS: REPORT
According to a nine-month investigation by Louisville Courier-Journal, El Mencho is infiltrating cities and towns across America
and has a presence in at least 35 states.
El Mencho leads one of the most violent drug cartels in the world, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG),
which has quickly grown into one of the world's largest criminal organizations over the past few years
— it's been accused of acts of terrorism, kidnappings, murders and even cannibalism.
Their reach extends to every continent except Antarctica and the group is more than 5,000 members strong, the Courier-Journal reported.
El Mencho's group is also flooding the U.S. with thousands of kilos of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl every year —
roughly one-third of the drugs entering the United States, fueling the nation's overdose crisis.
"[El Mencho] has bypassed and supplanted the traditional old-guard network of those large distribution models,"
said Follis, author of the book "The Dark Art: Undercover in the Global War Against Narco-Terrorism."
WANTED @DEAHOUSTONDiv: Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera-Cervantes for drug trafficking
Born #Guadalajara #Jalisco #Mexico 52 yo, blk hair/brn eyes, 5'7, 150#
Help us find him call 877-926-8332 email usms.wanted@usdoj.gov or contact DEA More:
"He's taken his minions, his operatives, from Jalisco New Generation Cartel
and dispatched them throughout the midwest, northeast, and southeast regions of America
where there is this appetite, there this addiction, there's suburban rural desire and market for the retail market," he told host Steve Doocy.
Follis explained that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was sentenced to life behind bars in July,
represented the "old model," which focused on the wholesale distribution of narcotics, whereas El Mencho is taking his product right to the streets.
He said that thousands of operatives have infiltrated rural American markets and "principally own them in a low-profile, nontraditional, approach."
MEXICO'S ANNUAL HOMICIDE COUNT ON PACE TO BE HIGHEST IN DECADES AS NEARLY 100 KILLED DAILY
WHERE DOES MEXICO REALLY GET ITS GUNS?
"They've turned everything upside down," he told Doocy.
Chris Evans, who runs the DEA's day-to-day global operations, told the Courier-Journal the drug empire is
"putting poison on the streets of the U.S." and that it's "important for all Americans to understand the threat to their community
and what might impact their everyday lives."
The price on El Mencho's head is $10 million and he is on the DEA's most wanted list.
The Courier-Journal contributed to this report.
End
Note: Some of us have "heard" of him. Photos, etc. at link:
Comment: BTW, It is still the " American" doper who financed him and the other cartels.
Time to lock up all those dopers?
Thx
A Mexican drug kingpin you've never heard of is infiltrating small-town America
By Julia Musto | Fox News
hhttps://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-americat
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-america
Small-town Mexican drug lord 'El Mencho' infiltrates small town America
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes's drug cartel empire is devastating small-town families across the country. Former DEA Agent Edward Follis explains.
Ruben "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," has flipped the world of drug trafficking on its head,
according to former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Edward Follis.
Appearing on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday, Follis said the Mexican drug kingpin's distribution models and renewed tactics
are what makes him so deadly and his reach so extensive. They're also why small-town America is being devastated.
MEXICAN CARTELS POISONING US NATIONAL PARKS THROUGH HIDDEN POT GROWING OPERATIONS: REPORT
According to a nine-month investigation by Louisville Courier-Journal, El Mencho is infiltrating cities and towns across America
and has a presence in at least 35 states.
El Mencho leads one of the most violent drug cartels in the world, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG),
which has quickly grown into one of the world's largest criminal organizations over the past few years
— it's been accused of acts of terrorism, kidnappings, murders and even cannibalism.
Their reach extends to every continent except Antarctica and the group is more than 5,000 members strong, the Courier-Journal reported.
El Mencho's group is also flooding the U.S. with thousands of kilos of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl every year —
roughly one-third of the drugs entering the United States, fueling the nation's overdose crisis.
"[El Mencho] has bypassed and supplanted the traditional old-guard network of those large distribution models,"
said Follis, author of the book "The Dark Art: Undercover in the Global War Against Narco-Terrorism."
WANTED @DEAHOUSTONDiv: Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera-Cervantes for drug trafficking
Born #Guadalajara #Jalisco #Mexico 52 yo, blk hair/brn eyes, 5'7, 150#
Help us find him call 877-926-8332 email usms.wanted@usdoj.gov or contact DEA More:
"He's taken his minions, his operatives, from Jalisco New Generation Cartel
and dispatched them throughout the midwest, northeast, and southeast regions of America
where there is this appetite, there this addiction, there's suburban rural desire and market for the retail market," he told host Steve Doocy.
Follis explained that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was sentenced to life behind bars in July,
represented the "old model," which focused on the wholesale distribution of narcotics, whereas El Mencho is taking his product right to the streets.
He said that thousands of operatives have infiltrated rural American markets and "principally own them in a low-profile, nontraditional, approach."
MEXICO'S ANNUAL HOMICIDE COUNT ON PACE TO BE HIGHEST IN DECADES AS NEARLY 100 KILLED DAILY
WHERE DOES MEXICO REALLY GET ITS GUNS?
"They've turned everything upside down," he told Doocy.
Chris Evans, who runs the DEA's day-to-day global operations, told the Courier-Journal the drug empire is
"putting poison on the streets of the U.S." and that it's "important for all Americans to understand the threat to their community
and what might impact their everyday lives."
The price on El Mencho's head is $10 million and he is on the DEA's most wanted list.
The Courier-Journal contributed to this report.
End
Friday, November 22, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 22 -11- 19
AZMEX UPDATE 22 NOV 2019
Note: photos, etc. at link:
Arizona man arrested, multi-million-dollar home raided in HSI money laundering, drug investigation
Posted: 12:19 PM, Nov 22, 2019 Updated: 2:48 PM, Nov 22, 2019
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-man-arrested-multi-million-dollar-home-raided-in-hsi-money-laundering-drug-investigation
An Arizona man facing multiple drug, firearm and money laundering charges after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home
northwest of Tucson Thursday night.
TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona man is facing multiple drug, firearm and money laundering charges
after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home northwest of Tucson Thursday night.
Raul Garcia Cordova, 47, is facing more than a dozen charges including narcotic sales, drug possession, drug manufacturing,
money laundering and weapons violations in connection with the raid.
KGUN 9 was there when federal authorities executed a search warrant at the home near the intersection of Moore Road and Como Drive.
Agents with Homeland Security Investigations hauled away a slew of vehicles from the scene,
including pickup trucks, SUVs, a motorboat, a sports car and a trailer.
Oro Valley Police and Marana Police vehicles were also at the scene.
(credit: Pima County Sheriff's Department)
Raul Cordova, 47, is facing 13 charges after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home northwest of Tucson.
Real estate listings advertise a $2.4 million price tag for the home, and property records show
it was sold for $1.6 million in the past few years.
Cordova, who is a U.S. citizen, made his initial court appearance Thursday night.
His attorney told the judge his client does have two prior felonies on drug charges, though they date back about 15 years.
Arguing for a high bond, a prosecutor noted Cordova's prior felonies prohibit him from having any firearms
but multiple guns were found at the house.
The prosecutor also elaborated on what led to the latest charges: Multiple pounds of marijuana, manufacturing equipment related to drugs
and alleged evidence that Cordova was involved in shipping millions of vape pens that dispense THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
A decal on the trailer hauled away at the scene advertises "Sonora Dark Horn Adventures."
According to its website, the company offers guided hunts on 100,000 acres of land it controls Mexico,
specializing in bighorn sheep and deer.
Public records list Cordova as the company's owner.
Public records list Raul Cordova as the owner of Sonora Dark Horn Adventures.
This trailer was hauled away from the scene fo the raid Thursday.
The website for Sonora Dark Horn Adventures lists its address in Oro Valley Marketplace,
which it shares with the Mexican restaurant San Carlos Grill.
Cordova is being held on $250,000 bond.
END
Note: photos, etc. at link:
Arizona man arrested, multi-million-dollar home raided in HSI money laundering, drug investigation
Posted: 12:19 PM, Nov 22, 2019 Updated: 2:48 PM, Nov 22, 2019
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-man-arrested-multi-million-dollar-home-raided-in-hsi-money-laundering-drug-investigation
An Arizona man facing multiple drug, firearm and money laundering charges after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home
northwest of Tucson Thursday night.
TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona man is facing multiple drug, firearm and money laundering charges
after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home northwest of Tucson Thursday night.
Raul Garcia Cordova, 47, is facing more than a dozen charges including narcotic sales, drug possession, drug manufacturing,
money laundering and weapons violations in connection with the raid.
KGUN 9 was there when federal authorities executed a search warrant at the home near the intersection of Moore Road and Como Drive.
Agents with Homeland Security Investigations hauled away a slew of vehicles from the scene,
including pickup trucks, SUVs, a motorboat, a sports car and a trailer.
Oro Valley Police and Marana Police vehicles were also at the scene.
(credit: Pima County Sheriff's Department)
Raul Cordova, 47, is facing 13 charges after federal authorities raided his multi-million-dollar home northwest of Tucson.
Real estate listings advertise a $2.4 million price tag for the home, and property records show
it was sold for $1.6 million in the past few years.
Cordova, who is a U.S. citizen, made his initial court appearance Thursday night.
His attorney told the judge his client does have two prior felonies on drug charges, though they date back about 15 years.
Arguing for a high bond, a prosecutor noted Cordova's prior felonies prohibit him from having any firearms
but multiple guns were found at the house.
The prosecutor also elaborated on what led to the latest charges: Multiple pounds of marijuana, manufacturing equipment related to drugs
and alleged evidence that Cordova was involved in shipping millions of vape pens that dispense THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
A decal on the trailer hauled away at the scene advertises "Sonora Dark Horn Adventures."
According to its website, the company offers guided hunts on 100,000 acres of land it controls Mexico,
specializing in bighorn sheep and deer.
Public records list Cordova as the company's owner.
Public records list Raul Cordova as the owner of Sonora Dark Horn Adventures.
This trailer was hauled away from the scene fo the raid Thursday.
The website for Sonora Dark Horn Adventures lists its address in Oro Valley Marketplace,
which it shares with the Mexican restaurant San Carlos Grill.
Cordova is being held on $250,000 bond.
END
Thursday, November 21, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 14-11-19
AZMEX POLICY 14 NOV 2019
Note: photos at link:
Comment: "Environmentalists" just another leftist op?
Sheriff calls for tougher border security to stop Mexico cartels poisoning US national parks
By Julia Musto | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sheriff-mark-lamb-border-environment-drug-fox-and-friends-first
Mexican cartels poisoning US national parks through hidden pot growing operations
Will a threat to the environment get Democrats to care about border security? Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb weighs in.
Democrats need to get on board with tougher border security measures to combat Mexican drug cartels
who are poisoning U.S. national parks, said Pinal County, Ariz. Sheriff Mark Lamb on "Fox & Friends First."
Lamb told host Heather Childers that drug and human traffickers coming over the U.S.-Mexico border have "total disregard for our country."
"It's not just those grow areas," said Lamb. "If you go all along the border, there's trash everywhere, abandoned stolen cars...clothes…
We've got cattle down there that are choking on tuna cans.
They just really do not care. It's all about getting their product here to America."
The "product," Lamb noted, is "human beings and drugs."
Mexican cartel members – who for years have carried out large-scale pot-growing operations in California national parks
– are poisoning water and wildlife through the use of pesticides banned by the Environmental Protection Agency,
according to a report published Tuesday.
Two Mexican nationals and suspected cartel members were arrested in September during a raid on an illegal marijuana operation
hidden beneath the thick tree canopies in California's Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Authorities found 8,656 growing marijuana plants and 232 pounds of processed marijuana, KQMS reported.
CBP CHIEF WARNS MEXICAN 'SUPER LABS' FLOODING US WITH METH, AS SEIZURES NEARLY DOUBLE
About 3,000 pounds of trash, including discarded clothing, propane tanks and spent cans of insecticide,
as well as three miles of plastic irrigation pipes and open bags of fertilizer, were also discovered at the site,
suggesting the operation had been in use for years, National Public Radio reported.
According to the Crop Project, 2,000 illegal grow areas contaminate national forests.
Lamb said that authorities are "going to need to do some massive rehabilitation" to areas where they find grow sites.
"I don't know where the environmentalists are," he told Childers.
"Every time I take somebody out into our desert, they wonder the same thing.
Where are the environmentalists?"
Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
End
Note: photos at link:
Comment: "Environmentalists" just another leftist op?
Sheriff calls for tougher border security to stop Mexico cartels poisoning US national parks
By Julia Musto | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sheriff-mark-lamb-border-environment-drug-fox-and-friends-first
Mexican cartels poisoning US national parks through hidden pot growing operations
Will a threat to the environment get Democrats to care about border security? Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb weighs in.
Democrats need to get on board with tougher border security measures to combat Mexican drug cartels
who are poisoning U.S. national parks, said Pinal County, Ariz. Sheriff Mark Lamb on "Fox & Friends First."
Lamb told host Heather Childers that drug and human traffickers coming over the U.S.-Mexico border have "total disregard for our country."
"It's not just those grow areas," said Lamb. "If you go all along the border, there's trash everywhere, abandoned stolen cars...clothes…
We've got cattle down there that are choking on tuna cans.
They just really do not care. It's all about getting their product here to America."
The "product," Lamb noted, is "human beings and drugs."
Mexican cartel members – who for years have carried out large-scale pot-growing operations in California national parks
– are poisoning water and wildlife through the use of pesticides banned by the Environmental Protection Agency,
according to a report published Tuesday.
Two Mexican nationals and suspected cartel members were arrested in September during a raid on an illegal marijuana operation
hidden beneath the thick tree canopies in California's Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Authorities found 8,656 growing marijuana plants and 232 pounds of processed marijuana, KQMS reported.
CBP CHIEF WARNS MEXICAN 'SUPER LABS' FLOODING US WITH METH, AS SEIZURES NEARLY DOUBLE
About 3,000 pounds of trash, including discarded clothing, propane tanks and spent cans of insecticide,
as well as three miles of plastic irrigation pipes and open bags of fertilizer, were also discovered at the site,
suggesting the operation had been in use for years, National Public Radio reported.
According to the Crop Project, 2,000 illegal grow areas contaminate national forests.
Lamb said that authorities are "going to need to do some massive rehabilitation" to areas where they find grow sites.
"I don't know where the environmentalists are," he told Childers.
"Every time I take somebody out into our desert, they wonder the same thing.
Where are the environmentalists?"
Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
End
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
AZMEX POLICY 19-11-19
AZMEX POLICY 19 NOV 2019.
Note: So illegals will ride for free. Citizens will pay the freight .
BTW, in Mexico, with its extensive public transportation network, people are expected to, and do pay the fare on public transportation.
From Cronkite "news" of course.
Thx
Protesters want Valley Metro to stop police sweeps for light rail fares
BY DEAGAN URBATSCH | CRONKITE NEWS
NOVEMBER 19, 2019 AT 4:15 AM
https://ktar.com/story/2846526/protesters-want-valley-metro-to-stop-police-sweeps-for-light-rail-fares/
Cronkite News
Phoenix Police light rail citation: Body camera video 2 (Nov. 13, 2019) | Cronkite News
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PHOENIX – Mitzi Castro hears the light rail train pass by her home every 15 minutes, a grim reminder, she said, of her experience on Wednesday,
when Phoenix police stopped her because she hadn't validated her $4 light rail ticket.
That confrontation, she said, could have led to her detention
and deportation to Mexico.
On Friday, the immigration advocacy group LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona) led a protest of about 30 people at the Valley Metro office downtown,
saying the transit system doesn't support the poor and people of color – who make up the bulk of its riders.
They demanded Valley Metro stop working with Phoenix police on fare payment crackdowns.
The organization also launched an online portal to track complaints against authorities.
Castro, who works for LUCHA, said she feels uncomfortable every time she hears the light rail.
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Castro said one officer told her, "We are the police, you're supposed to feel safe." Still, she said, the officers handcuffed her and threatened to arrest her.
She started crying as she recounted the story.
Castro said her family relies on her income from LUCHA, where she works with small business owners of color,
and she has an ill relative who would suffer if Castro were deported.
"My family would be forced into debt and my sick family member could die.
This is the reality that could have come to fruition, all over a $4 fare," Castro said.
Phoenix police, in a statement Friday, said they conducted a two-hour inspection of light rail fares on Wednesday.
The statement does not mention Castro by name but says police had a nine-minute encounter with "31-year-old woman (who)
was found to be in violation of the fare requirements" and was "escorted off the light rail."
The woman provided her name but not her date of birth, which police said was necessary for the citation.
She was handcuffed and detained but released after providing her birth date and receiving the citation.
Phoenix police said they contacted about 750 people during the fare inspection and found about 10% percent had "fare infractions."
Two had felony warrants and six had misdemeanor arrest warrants.
LUCHA officials say they established an online complaint system, where the public can upload footage of police interactions on light rail.
The point is to seek accountability for police actions, the organization said.
Gina Mendez, a community organizer, pointed to law-enforcement confrontations with riders on public transit elsewhere in the country.
"Within the past month, we've seen an increase in police, an increase of security guards,
we've seen an increase of people being criminalized for poverty," Mendez said.
"What happened at the BART station out in the Bay Area? You see what happened over there in New York?
We're dealing with police who arrest people for made-up reasons."
LUCHA leaders say it's time for Valley Metro to not work with police on fare payments.
Mendez described an incident several weeks ago across the street from LUCHA's office
where a mother was surrounded by four police cars, handcuffed and being frisked while her children looked on in tears.
Alejandra Gomez, LUCHA co-executive director, said members brought the woman's stroller with them Friday
and delivered it to Valley Metro's downtown office as a symbol.
"This stroller right here belongs to a mom who was criminalized and arrested right across the street from my office," Mendez said.
Maria Castro, the community organizer for the human rights group Puente Arizona, said she protested in solidarity with Mitzi Castro
and anyone who has been criminalized in Arizona's transportation system. She called the system flawed.
"If you are not a native English speaker, if you are not savvy with technology, you may have trouble understanding how to purchase a ticket," Castro said.
"This is a net to capture migrants, people who do not understand these systems.
The police put them in deportation systems and use this as an opportunity to ask for IDs."
Gomez expressed disappointment with Valley Metro for not talking with protesters.
"They didn't even have the decency to have a decision maker come and have a conversation with us, " Gomez said.
"The people who the light rail is intended for, people who can't afford a vehicle, people who are struggling to make ends meet –
Valley Metro is calling the police on its riders."
Valley Metro issued a statement before Friday's protest, saying it works with local police departments to enforce light-rail station rules.
Fare sweeps occur on occasion to encourage compliance.
"The crime suppression efforts on Nov. 13 were initiated by the Phoenix Police Department," the Valley Metro statement says.
Gomez said she will be taking the conversation directly to Mayor Kate Gallego.
End
Note: So illegals will ride for free. Citizens will pay the freight .
BTW, in Mexico, with its extensive public transportation network, people are expected to, and do pay the fare on public transportation.
From Cronkite "news" of course.
Thx
Protesters want Valley Metro to stop police sweeps for light rail fares
BY DEAGAN URBATSCH | CRONKITE NEWS
NOVEMBER 19, 2019 AT 4:15 AM
https://ktar.com/story/2846526/protesters-want-valley-metro-to-stop-police-sweeps-for-light-rail-fares/
Cronkite News
Phoenix Police light rail citation: Body camera video 2 (Nov. 13, 2019) | Cronkite News
<div class="player-unavailable"><h1 class="message">An errcom</a>, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.</div></div>
PHOENIX – Mitzi Castro hears the light rail train pass by her home every 15 minutes, a grim reminder, she said, of her experience on Wednesday,
when Phoenix police stopped her because she hadn't validated her $4 light rail ticket.
That confrontation, she said, could have led to her detention
and deportation to Mexico.
On Friday, the immigration advocacy group LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona) led a protest of about 30 people at the Valley Metro office downtown,
saying the transit system doesn't support the poor and people of color – who make up the bulk of its riders.
They demanded Valley Metro stop working with Phoenix police on fare payment crackdowns.
The organization also launched an online portal to track complaints against authorities.
Castro, who works for LUCHA, said she feels uncomfortable every time she hears the light rail.
The sound is unavoidable.div class="player-unavailable"><h1 class="message">An error occurred.</h1><div class="t="_blank">Try watching this v.youtube.com</a>, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.</div></div>
Castro said one officer told her, "We are the police, you're supposed to feel safe." Still, she said, the officers handcuffed her and threatened to arrest her.
She started crying as she recounted the story.
Castro said her family relies on her income from LUCHA, where she works with small business owners of color,
and she has an ill relative who would suffer if Castro were deported.
"My family would be forced into debt and my sick family member could die.
This is the reality that could have come to fruition, all over a $4 fare," Castro said.
Phoenix police, in a statement Friday, said they conducted a two-hour inspection of light rail fares on Wednesday.
The statement does not mention Castro by name but says police had a nine-minute encounter with "31-year-old woman (who)
was found to be in violation of the fare requirements" and was "escorted off the light rail."
The woman provided her name but not her date of birth, which police said was necessary for the citation.
She was handcuffed and detained but released after providing her birth date and receiving the citation.
Phoenix police said they contacted about 750 people during the fare inspection and found about 10% percent had "fare infractions."
Two had felony warrants and six had misdemeanor arrest warrants.
LUCHA officials say they established an online complaint system, where the public can upload footage of police interactions on light rail.
The point is to seek accountability for police actions, the organization said.
Gina Mendez, a community organizer, pointed to law-enforcement confrontations with riders on public transit elsewhere in the country.
"Within the past month, we've seen an increase in police, an increase of security guards,
we've seen an increase of people being criminalized for poverty," Mendez said.
"What happened at the BART station out in the Bay Area? You see what happened over there in New York?
We're dealing with police who arrest people for made-up reasons."
LUCHA leaders say it's time for Valley Metro to not work with police on fare payments.
Mendez described an incident several weeks ago across the street from LUCHA's office
where a mother was surrounded by four police cars, handcuffed and being frisked while her children looked on in tears.
Alejandra Gomez, LUCHA co-executive director, said members brought the woman's stroller with them Friday
and delivered it to Valley Metro's downtown office as a symbol.
"This stroller right here belongs to a mom who was criminalized and arrested right across the street from my office," Mendez said.
Maria Castro, the community organizer for the human rights group Puente Arizona, said she protested in solidarity with Mitzi Castro
and anyone who has been criminalized in Arizona's transportation system. She called the system flawed.
"If you are not a native English speaker, if you are not savvy with technology, you may have trouble understanding how to purchase a ticket," Castro said.
"This is a net to capture migrants, people who do not understand these systems.
The police put them in deportation systems and use this as an opportunity to ask for IDs."
Gomez expressed disappointment with Valley Metro for not talking with protesters.
"They didn't even have the decency to have a decision maker come and have a conversation with us, " Gomez said.
"The people who the light rail is intended for, people who can't afford a vehicle, people who are struggling to make ends meet –
Valley Metro is calling the police on its riders."
Valley Metro issued a statement before Friday's protest, saying it works with local police departments to enforce light-rail station rules.
Fare sweeps occur on occasion to encourage compliance.
"The crime suppression efforts on Nov. 13 were initiated by the Phoenix Police Department," the Valley Metro statement says.
Gomez said she will be taking the conversation directly to Mayor Kate Gallego.
End
Friday, November 15, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 15-11-19
AZMEX UPDATE 15 NOV 2019
USBP: Man suspected of illegally crossing Arizona border shot by agent
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/cbp-man-suspected-of-illegally-crossing-arizona-border-shot-by-agent
Published 1 hour ago
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says an agent shot and wounded a Russian man suspected of crossing the border illegally in Arizona.
The agency said Friday that the man was flown to a Phoenix hospital and is expected to survive.
The Border Patrol says the unidentified agent attempted to arrest the man Thursday just east of the border town Lukeville.
Authorities say a physical altercation followed and the agent shot the man. The agent was not seriously injured.
The Border Patrol has faced criticism over its use of force in the past,
but the number of shootings has fallen over the past few years.
Earlier this month, an agent shot and killed a gunman who opened fire near Sunland Park, New Mexico.
END
also: https://kvoa.com/news/local-news/2019/11/15/migrant-shot-by-bp-agent-following-physical-altercation-near-lukeville/
end
USBP: Man suspected of illegally crossing Arizona border shot by agent
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/cbp-man-suspected-of-illegally-crossing-arizona-border-shot-by-agent
Published 1 hour ago
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says an agent shot and wounded a Russian man suspected of crossing the border illegally in Arizona.
The agency said Friday that the man was flown to a Phoenix hospital and is expected to survive.
The Border Patrol says the unidentified agent attempted to arrest the man Thursday just east of the border town Lukeville.
Authorities say a physical altercation followed and the agent shot the man. The agent was not seriously injured.
The Border Patrol has faced criticism over its use of force in the past,
but the number of shootings has fallen over the past few years.
Earlier this month, an agent shot and killed a gunman who opened fire near Sunland Park, New Mexico.
END
also: https://kvoa.com/news/local-news/2019/11/15/migrant-shot-by-bp-agent-following-physical-altercation-near-lukeville/
end
AZMEX EXTRA 15-11-19
AZMEX EXTRA 15 NOV 2019
Note: photos at link:
CBP: Outbound inspections at Nogales ports net cash and guns
Nogales International Nov 13, 2019 Updated Nov 13, 2019
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/cbp-outbound-inspections-at-nogales-ports-net-cash-and-guns/article_6cf9b65e-0674-11ea-810e-5f58daa05438.html
A 28-year-old man was caught with this load of $142,000 in his Chevy SUV.
CBP photo
Port officers in Nogales arrested three people and seized nearly $163,000 in unreported currency and a pair of tactical weapons during three separate incidents this week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers were conducting outgoing operations at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday afternoon when they referred a 28-year-old Mexican man for additional inspection of the Chevy SUV he was trying to drive into Mexico.
A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of packages containing approximately $142,000 in unreported U.S. currency hidden within the left quarter panel.
On Tuesday afternoon, officers conducting outbound operations at the Mariposa port referred a 22-year-old Tucson woman for a further search of her Honda sedan. Officers also searched the driver, and found she had two bundles containing more than $20,000 in unreported U.S. currency inside her purse.
A driver headed for Mexico was busted with two AK-47 rifles and two empty 30-round magazines hidden beneath a floor mat.
CBP photo
That same day, officers at the Mariposa port referred a 27-year-old Mexican national living in Tucson for an additional search of his Chrysler sedan as he attempted to cross into Mexico. The search led to the discovery of two AK-47 rifles and two empty 30-round magazines beneath the driver's side floor mat.
Following their arrests, the three suspects were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, CBP said.
END
Note: photos at link:
CBP: Outbound inspections at Nogales ports net cash and guns
Nogales International Nov 13, 2019 Updated Nov 13, 2019
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/cbp-outbound-inspections-at-nogales-ports-net-cash-and-guns/article_6cf9b65e-0674-11ea-810e-5f58daa05438.html
A 28-year-old man was caught with this load of $142,000 in his Chevy SUV.
CBP photo
Port officers in Nogales arrested three people and seized nearly $163,000 in unreported currency and a pair of tactical weapons during three separate incidents this week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers were conducting outgoing operations at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday afternoon when they referred a 28-year-old Mexican man for additional inspection of the Chevy SUV he was trying to drive into Mexico.
A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of packages containing approximately $142,000 in unreported U.S. currency hidden within the left quarter panel.
On Tuesday afternoon, officers conducting outbound operations at the Mariposa port referred a 22-year-old Tucson woman for a further search of her Honda sedan. Officers also searched the driver, and found she had two bundles containing more than $20,000 in unreported U.S. currency inside her purse.
A driver headed for Mexico was busted with two AK-47 rifles and two empty 30-round magazines hidden beneath a floor mat.
CBP photo
That same day, officers at the Mariposa port referred a 27-year-old Mexican national living in Tucson for an additional search of his Chrysler sedan as he attempted to cross into Mexico. The search led to the discovery of two AK-47 rifles and two empty 30-round magazines beneath the driver's side floor mat.
Following their arrests, the three suspects were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, CBP said.
END
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL2 7-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL2 7 NOV 2019
Note: photos, etc. at link.
Funerals are prepared to fire the 9 victims of the LeBarón family
The 9 members of the family will be buried in the pantheon of the community of La Mora.
By El Universal
November 7
https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/Preparan-funerales-para-despedir-a-las-9-victimas-de-la-familia-LeBaron-20191107-0050.html
BAVISPE, Sonora.- A sad dawn is lived in the community of La Mora, municipality of Bavispe.
This Thursday, November 7, the funerals of the nine members of the LeBarón and Langford families,
killed in an armed attack on the border of Sonora and Chihuahua, begin.
Relatives of the victims anticipated that at 10:00 am this Thursday there will be a mass present for one of the women and their two children,
then they will be buried in the pantheon of that community.
Another funeral event will be held in the afternoon at a private home where another woman,
Rhonita María and her twins Titus and Tiana, 8 months old will be held.
His remains will be transferred to the LeBarón neighborhood in the municipality of Galeana, Chihuahua
where they will be buried tomorrow.
More on this topic
MEXICO
Culiacán and attack on LeBarón reaffirmed non-violence government position: AMLO
In the afternoon last night, dozens of vehicles with relatives of the victims who were ambushed in the Sonoran mountains arrived at this place.
La Linea, indicated by LeBarón case
La Línea, the criminal organization designated by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena)
as likely responsible for the murder of nine members of the LeBarón colony, was, until the beginning of 2017,
considered an armed arm of the Juarez Cartel, until a betrayal Within the group, he imposed himself
and began his transformation to the New Juarez Cartel (NCDJ).
That armed group was founded by Juan Pablo Ledezma Rodríguez, El JL
, and funded by the founder and leader of the Juarez Cartel, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, El Viceroy.
The objective was to fight the Sinaloa Cartel in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, as well as in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas.
More on this topic
MEXICO
Julián LeBarón: We are willing to arm ourselves to defend ourselves
They go for vehicle analysis where LeBarón family was attacked
The vehicles in which the LeBarón and Langford families moved when they were attacked in the Sierra de Bavispe, Sonora,
will be transferred to Hermosillo to be analyzed by experts from the Forensic Scientific Intelligence Laboratory (CIF)
of the Attorney General's Office of Justice of Sonora (FGJE) with support from the FGR.
END
Note: photos, etc. at link.
Funerals are prepared to fire the 9 victims of the LeBarón family
The 9 members of the family will be buried in the pantheon of the community of La Mora.
By El Universal
November 7
https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/Preparan-funerales-para-despedir-a-las-9-victimas-de-la-familia-LeBaron-20191107-0050.html
BAVISPE, Sonora.- A sad dawn is lived in the community of La Mora, municipality of Bavispe.
This Thursday, November 7, the funerals of the nine members of the LeBarón and Langford families,
killed in an armed attack on the border of Sonora and Chihuahua, begin.
Relatives of the victims anticipated that at 10:00 am this Thursday there will be a mass present for one of the women and their two children,
then they will be buried in the pantheon of that community.
Another funeral event will be held in the afternoon at a private home where another woman,
Rhonita María and her twins Titus and Tiana, 8 months old will be held.
His remains will be transferred to the LeBarón neighborhood in the municipality of Galeana, Chihuahua
where they will be buried tomorrow.
MEXICO
Culiacán and attack on LeBarón reaffirmed non-violence government position: AMLO
In the afternoon last night, dozens of vehicles with relatives of the victims who were ambushed in the Sonoran mountains arrived at this place.
La Linea, indicated by LeBarón case
La Línea, the criminal organization designated by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena)
as likely responsible for the murder of nine members of the LeBarón colony, was, until the beginning of 2017,
considered an armed arm of the Juarez Cartel, until a betrayal Within the group, he imposed himself
and began his transformation to the New Juarez Cartel (NCDJ).
That armed group was founded by Juan Pablo Ledezma Rodríguez, El JL
, and funded by the founder and leader of the Juarez Cartel, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, El Viceroy.
The objective was to fight the Sinaloa Cartel in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, as well as in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas.
MEXICO
Julián LeBarón: We are willing to arm ourselves to defend ourselves
They go for vehicle analysis where LeBarón family was attacked
The vehicles in which the LeBarón and Langford families moved when they were attacked in the Sierra de Bavispe, Sonora,
will be transferred to Hermosillo to be analyzed by experts from the Forensic Scientific Intelligence Laboratory (CIF)
of the Attorney General's Office of Justice of Sonora (FGJE) with support from the FGR.
END
AZMEX SPECIAL 9-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 9 NOV 2019
2 theories emerge in Mexico ambush that killed 9 Americans
Updated Nov 5, 2019 | Posted on Nov 4, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/theories-emerge-in-mexico-ambush-that-killed-americans/article_37cf51cb-62a0-555d-a813-5480777c1ab6.html
Some of the American children who survived a massacre carried out by a Mexican drug cartel went for help after the shooting and some are in a Tucson hospital.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Suspect arrested in Mexico not tied to attack that killed American family.
MEXICO CITY (3TV/CBS 5/AP/CNN) -- A suspect has not been identified in the massacre of nine family members
from a Mormon community on the Mexican side of the border with the United States.
[VIDEO: Kid survivors treated in Tucson after Mexican cartel massacre kills 9 Americans]
SUSPECT ARRESTED
On Wednesday afternoon it was announced that the suspect accused of killing an American family is not connected to the crime.
Read more about update here.
The Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigations (AMIC) said when the arrest was made,
the suspect was holding two bound and gagged hostages in the hills of Agua Priests in the state of Sonora.
The suspect had several assault rifles in their possession, including high-caliber weapons
like a 50-gauge Barrett long rifle, officials said.
[VIDEO: People in Mexico trying to forget the cartel massacre that killed an American family]
WHO ARE THE VICTIMS?
Seventeen people were in the three vehicles that were ambushed, three mothers and 14 children.
Those killed include all three mothers, four small children and two infants, family member Alex LeBaron said from Mexico.
He said all nine were dual U.S.-Mexican citizens. The victims were "all shot while in vehicles," LeBaron told CNN.
Eight children survived. Five of them were shot. The survivors are being treated in a Tucson hospital.
The families lived in the community of La Mora, which is a decades-old settlement founded as part of an offshoot
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[WATCH: Queen Creek relative says 9 family members murdered, missing in Mexico]
[RELATED: More details about the community of La Mora and it's relationship to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]
DETAILS ON THE ATTACK
A convoy of three vehicles had set out Monday from La Mora.
They were traveling between the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua when they were ambushed by the cartel that evening, Mexican authorities said.
"Women and children (between 14 years old and 10 months) were massacred, burned alive,"
a family member told CNN. "Mothers were screaming for the fire to stop."
One relative, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, told Arizona's Family
he had located a burned-out, bullet-ridden SUV containing the remains of his nephew's wife and her four children.
He said he saw dozens of heavily armed gunmen near the burned-out vehicle.
[RELATED: A 13-year-old boy walked for 6 hours to get help after the Mormon families attack]
Wayne Fischer, another relative, told Arizona's Family that a 13-year-old boy ran for six hours for help.
He also said when the gunmen discovered that only children survived the attack, they told them to get out of the vehicles.
Before running for help, the teen hid six children in bushes and covered them with branches to keep them safe. "It's horrible.
The kids are traumatized, obviously, and they're not talking that much, which is all understandable
based on what they've been through, based on what they've seen."
Another relative, Lafe Langford, talked about how brave the children were after the attack.
"They immediately started walking toward home and taking turns," Langford said.
"These precious children were taking turns carrying their brother."
[WATCH: American children who survived massacre in Mexico went for help]
A third relative, Leah Staddon of Queen Creek, Arizona, spoke to Arizona's Family on Monday.
She says her family had been talking about moving to the states permanently because of all the violence.
"Things that have happened with family members being pulled over by the mafia, guns pointed at their vehicle," Staddon said.
"I think a lot of us are just speechless. It's horrific," continued Staddon.
"We just can't believe this actually happened to our family. It just seems like a bad dream."
POSSIBLE MOTIVES
Mexico's top security official, Secretary Alfonso Durazo, believes the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs.
However, the LeBaron family had a history of conflict with Mexican drug cartels, which indicates that they may have been targeted,
former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda told CNN on Tuesday evening.
"Cartels have taken too many of our family members," said family member Kendra Lee Miller,
adding those killed Monday were "not the first."
Miller told CNN her family has recently been threatened by cartels over where it can travel.
"Their long-standing tensions, and apparently the woman who was driving in the first car that was attacked was an activist.
She was someone who was very active in her community, defending her family, her fellow members of the community against cartels,
on the issue of water rights," Castañeda said, describing one of the three women killed, without naming her.
The former minister also said the larger LeBaron community had been receiving the protection of 90 federal police
stationed around the community since 2011 because of tensions between the family and cartels.
That protection was withdrawn to some extent by the current government
(AMLO who does not want "war" with the drug cartels )
earlier this year, according to Castañeda.
It's unclear whether all 90 policemen were withdrawn or just some of them, he added.
In a news conference earlier Tuesday, Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said the attack may have been a case of mistaken identity
of "conflicting groups in the area."
But Castañeda told CNN that he finds that theory unlikely, especially as two cars in two different locations carrying members of the same family
were attacked in the same manner.
PRESIDENT TRUMP RESPONDS TO KILLINGS
President Trump tweeted about the attacks on Tuesday morning.
He said he is offering Mexico's government unspecified help to "wage war" on drug cartels.
"This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.
We merely await a call from your great new president!" Trump said in a series of tweets addressing the tragedy.
Trump said the U.S. government stands ready to get involved.
"The cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!"
[RELATED: Trump says US is ready to help Mexico 'wage war' on drug cartels after family killed in ambush]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Arizona's Family the following statement:
"We are heartbroken to hear of the tragedy that has touched these families in Mexico.
Though it is our understanding that they are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
our love, prayers and sympathies are with them as they mourn and remember their loved ones."
END
2 theories emerge in Mexico ambush that killed 9 Americans
Updated Nov 5, 2019 | Posted on Nov 4, 2019
https://www.azfamily.com/news/theories-emerge-in-mexico-ambush-that-killed-americans/article_37cf51cb-62a0-555d-a813-5480777c1ab6.html
Some of the American children who survived a massacre carried out by a Mexican drug cartel went for help after the shooting and some are in a Tucson hospital.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Suspect arrested in Mexico not tied to attack that killed American family.
MEXICO CITY (3TV/CBS 5/AP/CNN) -- A suspect has not been identified in the massacre of nine family members
from a Mormon community on the Mexican side of the border with the United States.
[VIDEO: Kid survivors treated in Tucson after Mexican cartel massacre kills 9 Americans]
SUSPECT ARRESTED
On Wednesday afternoon it was announced that the suspect accused of killing an American family is not connected to the crime.
Read more about update here.
The Ministerial Agency for Criminal Investigations (AMIC) said when the arrest was made,
the suspect was holding two bound and gagged hostages in the hills of Agua Priests in the state of Sonora.
The suspect had several assault rifles in their possession, including high-caliber weapons
like a 50-gauge Barrett long rifle, officials said.
[VIDEO: People in Mexico trying to forget the cartel massacre that killed an American family]
WHO ARE THE VICTIMS?
Seventeen people were in the three vehicles that were ambushed, three mothers and 14 children.
Those killed include all three mothers, four small children and two infants, family member Alex LeBaron said from Mexico.
He said all nine were dual U.S.-Mexican citizens. The victims were "all shot while in vehicles," LeBaron told CNN.
Eight children survived. Five of them were shot. The survivors are being treated in a Tucson hospital.
The families lived in the community of La Mora, which is a decades-old settlement founded as part of an offshoot
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[WATCH: Queen Creek relative says 9 family members murdered, missing in Mexico]
[RELATED: More details about the community of La Mora and it's relationship to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]
DETAILS ON THE ATTACK
A convoy of three vehicles had set out Monday from La Mora.
They were traveling between the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua when they were ambushed by the cartel that evening, Mexican authorities said.
"Women and children (between 14 years old and 10 months) were massacred, burned alive,"
a family member told CNN. "Mothers were screaming for the fire to stop."
One relative, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, told Arizona's Family
he had located a burned-out, bullet-ridden SUV containing the remains of his nephew's wife and her four children.
He said he saw dozens of heavily armed gunmen near the burned-out vehicle.
[RELATED: A 13-year-old boy walked for 6 hours to get help after the Mormon families attack]
Wayne Fischer, another relative, told Arizona's Family that a 13-year-old boy ran for six hours for help.
He also said when the gunmen discovered that only children survived the attack, they told them to get out of the vehicles.
Before running for help, the teen hid six children in bushes and covered them with branches to keep them safe. "It's horrible.
The kids are traumatized, obviously, and they're not talking that much, which is all understandable
based on what they've been through, based on what they've seen."
Another relative, Lafe Langford, talked about how brave the children were after the attack.
"They immediately started walking toward home and taking turns," Langford said.
"These precious children were taking turns carrying their brother."
[WATCH: American children who survived massacre in Mexico went for help]
A third relative, Leah Staddon of Queen Creek, Arizona, spoke to Arizona's Family on Monday.
She says her family had been talking about moving to the states permanently because of all the violence.
"Things that have happened with family members being pulled over by the mafia, guns pointed at their vehicle," Staddon said.
"I think a lot of us are just speechless. It's horrific," continued Staddon.
"We just can't believe this actually happened to our family. It just seems like a bad dream."
POSSIBLE MOTIVES
Mexico's top security official, Secretary Alfonso Durazo, believes the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs.
However, the LeBaron family had a history of conflict with Mexican drug cartels, which indicates that they may have been targeted,
former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda told CNN on Tuesday evening.
"Cartels have taken too many of our family members," said family member Kendra Lee Miller,
adding those killed Monday were "not the first."
Miller told CNN her family has recently been threatened by cartels over where it can travel.
"Their long-standing tensions, and apparently the woman who was driving in the first car that was attacked was an activist.
She was someone who was very active in her community, defending her family, her fellow members of the community against cartels,
on the issue of water rights," Castañeda said, describing one of the three women killed, without naming her.
The former minister also said the larger LeBaron community had been receiving the protection of 90 federal police
stationed around the community since 2011 because of tensions between the family and cartels.
That protection was withdrawn to some extent by the current government
(AMLO who does not want "war" with the drug cartels )
earlier this year, according to Castañeda.
It's unclear whether all 90 policemen were withdrawn or just some of them, he added.
In a news conference earlier Tuesday, Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said the attack may have been a case of mistaken identity
of "conflicting groups in the area."
But Castañeda told CNN that he finds that theory unlikely, especially as two cars in two different locations carrying members of the same family
were attacked in the same manner.
PRESIDENT TRUMP RESPONDS TO KILLINGS
President Trump tweeted about the attacks on Tuesday morning.
He said he is offering Mexico's government unspecified help to "wage war" on drug cartels.
"This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.
We merely await a call from your great new president!" Trump said in a series of tweets addressing the tragedy.
Trump said the U.S. government stands ready to get involved.
"The cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!"
[RELATED: Trump says US is ready to help Mexico 'wage war' on drug cartels after family killed in ambush]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Arizona's Family the following statement:
"We are heartbroken to hear of the tragedy that has touched these families in Mexico.
Though it is our understanding that they are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
our love, prayers and sympathies are with them as they mourn and remember their loved ones."
END
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL 7-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 7 NOV 2019
Mexico Now Says Different Cartel Responsible for Mormon Family Murders - Can We Trust Mexico?
Written by Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby | Source: Breitbart | November 06, 2019 01:09 PM
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/695505-mexico-now-says-different-cartel-responsible-for-mormon-family-murders-special?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-AOL
Mexican security officials leading the investigation into the mass murder of nine Mormons in Sonora
say the victims were likely mistaken for a rival cartel convoy.
They also believe the Juarez Cartel–not the Sinaloa Cartel–is now to blame.
On Monday, a group of cartel gunmen shot and killed three women and six children as they were driving in the mountainous region
between the Mexican border states of Sonora and Chihuahua, just south of the New Mexico boot heel.
Authorities revealed they collected more than 200 rounds of spent .223 ammunition casings at the scene of the attack.
During a press conference on Wednesday morning, Mexican Army General Homero Mendoza said that earlier in the day of the incident,
gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel faction "Gente Nueva de Los Los Salazar" clashed with rivals from
"La Linea," the enforcement wing of the Juarez Cartel, based in the border state of Chihuahua.
The clashes took place in Agua Prieta, Sonora, when authorities received information on various skirmishes
between La Linea and Los Salazar shortly after 3:15am local time.
Three hours later, authorities responded to another incident at a funeral home in Agua Prieta.
After attacking the Sinaloa Cartel turf, La Linea took a series of defensive measures to keep rivals from entering Chihuahua for payback,
Mendoza said in reference to a working theory on the case.
"[La Linea] placed a cell between the towns of Janos and Bavispe in the border of both states (Sonora and Chihuahua).
It is assumed they sent it to stop any penetration by Los Salazar and it is assumed that this group
is the one that took part in the aggression against the LeBaron family," the general added.
The working theory is that since members of the LeBaron family were moving in four large SUVs, gunmen mistook them for a rival convoy, the general said.
"The types of vehicles they used, Suburbans, are commonly used by organized crime members moving along the mountain region," Mendoza said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Augusto Peniche claimed the likely suspects were the
"Jaguares" cell within the Sinaloa Cartel since they control Agua Prieta.
He said the Jaguares were at odds with La Linea and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project
with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexican President AMLO on Cartels: 'War Not an Option'
This article was sourced from Breitbart
In the aftermath of a cartel massacre that killed nine Americans driving through the mountainous region south of the New Mexico border,
Mexico's president said that going to "war" with cartels is not an option.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) made the statement on Wednesday morning during his daily press conference.
The comment comes at a time when pressure continues to mount over the perception that Mexico has gone soft on security issues.
"War is the most irrational thing there can be and that is not going to be an option," Lopez Obrador said.
( Corrupt idiot or bought off ? )
The follows soon after a group of cartel gunmen presumably with "La Linea" faction of the Juarez Cartel murdered three women and six children
while injuring six others. One day after the massacre, President Donald Trump reached out to AMLO
initially via Twitter to offer any needed resources for "war" against cartels.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.
We merely await a call from your great new president!
"He offered help and he stated that he will be ready to any call for help from us in that matter," Lopez Obrador said,
"I thanked him for his interest in participating in this issue and I thanked him for being respectful of our sovereignty."
Going to war was tried in the past and it only brought more violence and death, Lopez Obrador argued.
In regard to criticism from U.S. politicians and pundits, AMLO said he respects their vision, but he does not share it.
"We are taking a different approach. That approach was tried for 36 years and it failed," Lopez Obrador said.
"We are going to prove that our approach works."
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project
with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management.
Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
IEnd
Mexico Now Says Different Cartel Responsible for Mormon Family Murders - Can We Trust Mexico?
Written by Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby | Source: Breitbart | November 06, 2019 01:09 PM
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/695505-mexico-now-says-different-cartel-responsible-for-mormon-family-murders-special?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-AOL
Mexican security officials leading the investigation into the mass murder of nine Mormons in Sonora
say the victims were likely mistaken for a rival cartel convoy.
They also believe the Juarez Cartel–not the Sinaloa Cartel–is now to blame.
On Monday, a group of cartel gunmen shot and killed three women and six children as they were driving in the mountainous region
between the Mexican border states of Sonora and Chihuahua, just south of the New Mexico boot heel.
Authorities revealed they collected more than 200 rounds of spent .223 ammunition casings at the scene of the attack.
During a press conference on Wednesday morning, Mexican Army General Homero Mendoza said that earlier in the day of the incident,
gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel faction "Gente Nueva de Los Los Salazar" clashed with rivals from
"La Linea," the enforcement wing of the Juarez Cartel, based in the border state of Chihuahua.
The clashes took place in Agua Prieta, Sonora, when authorities received information on various skirmishes
between La Linea and Los Salazar shortly after 3:15am local time.
Three hours later, authorities responded to another incident at a funeral home in Agua Prieta.
After attacking the Sinaloa Cartel turf, La Linea took a series of defensive measures to keep rivals from entering Chihuahua for payback,
Mendoza said in reference to a working theory on the case.
"[La Linea] placed a cell between the towns of Janos and Bavispe in the border of both states (Sonora and Chihuahua).
It is assumed they sent it to stop any penetration by Los Salazar and it is assumed that this group
is the one that took part in the aggression against the LeBaron family," the general added.
The working theory is that since members of the LeBaron family were moving in four large SUVs, gunmen mistook them for a rival convoy, the general said.
"The types of vehicles they used, Suburbans, are commonly used by organized crime members moving along the mountain region," Mendoza said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Augusto Peniche claimed the likely suspects were the
"Jaguares" cell within the Sinaloa Cartel since they control Agua Prieta.
He said the Jaguares were at odds with La Linea and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project
with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexican President AMLO on Cartels: 'War Not an Option'
This article was sourced from Breitbart
In the aftermath of a cartel massacre that killed nine Americans driving through the mountainous region south of the New Mexico border,
Mexico's president said that going to "war" with cartels is not an option.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) made the statement on Wednesday morning during his daily press conference.
The comment comes at a time when pressure continues to mount over the perception that Mexico has gone soft on security issues.
"War is the most irrational thing there can be and that is not going to be an option," Lopez Obrador said.
( Corrupt idiot or bought off ? )
The follows soon after a group of cartel gunmen presumably with "La Linea" faction of the Juarez Cartel murdered three women and six children
while injuring six others. One day after the massacre, President Donald Trump reached out to AMLO
initially via Twitter to offer any needed resources for "war" against cartels.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.
We merely await a call from your great new president!
"He offered help and he stated that he will be ready to any call for help from us in that matter," Lopez Obrador said,
"I thanked him for his interest in participating in this issue and I thanked him for being respectful of our sovereignty."
Going to war was tried in the past and it only brought more violence and death, Lopez Obrador argued.
In regard to criticism from U.S. politicians and pundits, AMLO said he respects their vision, but he does not share it.
"We are taking a different approach. That approach was tried for 36 years and it failed," Lopez Obrador said.
"We are going to prove that our approach works."
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project
with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management.
Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
IEnd
AZMEX EXTRA 29-10-19
AZMEX EXTRA 29 OCT 2019
Note: interesting photo at link.
They seize load of firearms and narcotics on the road by Cajeme, Son.
Details Published on Monday, October 28, 2019,
Written by Editorial Staff / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=138424
They find long weapons, cartridges, magazines, tactical equipment and drugs
In an operation coordinated by federal and state forces, last Thursday it was possible to prevent a shipment of weapons and cartridges from circulating through the state, where a vehicle with theft report was also recovered.
The events were recorded on Thursday, October 24, when Federal Police personnel carrying out coordinated actions with the National Institute of Migration and Sedena south of Sonora identified a vehicle that circulated without a front plate, so when asked to stop they continued, so a chase was made and the support of the police corporations was requested.
At approximately 7:15 pm, elements of the State Public Security Police located the car in the immediate vicinity of Cajeme, securing the Nissan Sentra at kilometer 217-550 of the highway section of the Don-Ciudad Obregón Station.
The driver of the car was struck, at which time he left and fled to an adjacent field, so that his arrest was not possible, however, PESP personnel secured the vehicle that resulted in a report of theft in Nogales, Arizona since last September 14.
In the place they secured four 7.62x39mm long guns and a .40 handgun and more than 90 cartridges.
They also secured around 18 magazines, more than 400 cartridges, 10 bags containing marijuana, more than 400 white powder wrappers, similar to a narcotic, and four ballistic vests.
Due to the matter, the insurance proceeded with the security measures and made everything available to the Public Ministry to continue with the corresponding legal procedures.
End
Note: interesting photo at link.
They seize load of firearms and narcotics on the road by Cajeme, Son.
Details Published on Monday, October 28, 2019,
Written by Editorial Staff / El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=138424
They find long weapons, cartridges, magazines, tactical equipment and drugs
In an operation coordinated by federal and state forces, last Thursday it was possible to prevent a shipment of weapons and cartridges from circulating through the state, where a vehicle with theft report was also recovered.
The events were recorded on Thursday, October 24, when Federal Police personnel carrying out coordinated actions with the National Institute of Migration and Sedena south of Sonora identified a vehicle that circulated without a front plate, so when asked to stop they continued, so a chase was made and the support of the police corporations was requested.
At approximately 7:15 pm, elements of the State Public Security Police located the car in the immediate vicinity of Cajeme, securing the Nissan Sentra at kilometer 217-550 of the highway section of the Don-Ciudad Obregón Station.
The driver of the car was struck, at which time he left and fled to an adjacent field, so that his arrest was not possible, however, PESP personnel secured the vehicle that resulted in a report of theft in Nogales, Arizona since last September 14.
In the place they secured four 7.62x39mm long guns and a .40 handgun and more than 90 cartridges.
They also secured around 18 magazines, more than 400 cartridges, 10 bags containing marijuana, more than 400 white powder wrappers, similar to a narcotic, and four ballistic vests.
Due to the matter, the insurance proceeded with the security measures and made everything available to the Public Ministry to continue with the corresponding legal procedures.
End
Friday, November 8, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL 8-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 8 NOV 2019
Note: photos, etc. at link:
Residents of Mexican town struggle with fear after cartel ambush
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 8, 2019 AT 6:51 AM
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 8, 2019 AT 2:10 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2836095/residents-of-mexican-town-struggle-with-fear-after-cartel-ambush/
A boy pauses as he speaks next to the coffins of Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed by drug cartel gunmen, during the funeral at a family cemetery in La Mora, Sonora state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Three women and six of their children, all members of the extended LeBaron family, died when they were gunned down in an attack while traveling along Mexico's Chihuahua and Sonora state border on Monday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
LA MORA, Mexico – U.S. citizens living in a small Mexican farming community established by their Mormon ancestors are trying to decide whether they should stay or leave after burying some of the nine American women and children slaughtered this week in a drug cartel ambush.
What had been a peaceful existence in a fertile valley ringed by rugged mountains and desert scrub about 70 miles (112 kilometers) from the border with Arizona became increasingly dangerous in recent years as cartels exerted their power and fought each other in Sonora state, a drug smuggling hotbed.
But La Mora, a hamlet of about 300 people where residents raise cattle and cultivate pomegranates, "will be forever changed" following the killings Monday as the women traveled with their children to visit relatives, a tearful David Langford told mourners at the funeral for his wife, Dawna Ray Langford, and their 11-year-old and 2-year-old sons.
"One of the dearest things to our lives is the safety of our family," said Langford. "And I won't feel safe. I haven't for a few years here."
Related Links
Young Phoenix-area relative of Mexico ambush victims makes tribute video
Here's what we know about the killings of 9 Americans in Mexico
Mexico farm town buries 3 of 9 slain Americans
Travelers mull safety amid Arizona-Mexico border violence
On Friday, the bodies of Rhonita Miller and four of her children were being taken in a convoy of pickup trucks and SUVS, on the same dirt-and-rock mountainous road where they were killed, for burial in the community of Colonia Le Baron in Chihuahua state. Many residents of the two communities that lie a five-hour, bone-jarring drive apart are related. They consider themselves Mormon but are not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and many have dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship.
Colonia LeBaron has been largely peaceful since the 2009 killing of one of its members who was an anti-crime activist prompted Mexican authorities to establish a security base. But the police presence in La Mora was negligible until the women and children were killed and authorities sent a swarm of state and federal police to the area. How long they stay could be crucial to the community's future, residents said.
"The truth is we aren't safe here as a community," Langford said. "We live in the mountains, we have no access to authorities, or very, very little."
Former La Mora Mayor Steven Langford predicted that as many as half of the community's the residents could leave, turning it into a "ghost town." The motive in the killings still isn't known, though Mexican authorities have suggested the victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time as competing cartels fought over turf and may have mistaken the SUVs the women and children were in for rivals who travel in similar vehicles.
As he barbequed beef and chicken to feed hundreds of mourners arriving from the U.S. and other parts of Mexico for the funerals, Erasmo Valenzuela said he heard that two or three families plan to leave La Mora. Valenzuela, 50, has worked for the community's families for 10 years and predicted a permanent military presence could be established in the area.
"Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen, so that we feel safer," he said.
Residents of La Mora dispute the theory that the victims were not targeted, saying eight children who survived the massacre saw one mother get out of her SUV and raise her hands only to be gunned down anyway. That mother's checkbook was discovered about 10 yards (meters) away from the burned vehicle, suggesting someone rifled it before setting it ablaze, said Julian LeBaron, whose brother Benjamin was killed 10 years ago in Colonia Le Baron
Until answers emerge as to why the women and children were killed, Joe Darger said his daughter who lives in Utah but maintains a second home in La Mora won't be spending time again in a place that had been part of her family's life.
"Until there's answers, she's not bringing her kids," Darger, of Salt Lake City, said after traveling to La Mora for the funerals.
Before her body was taken in a simple wooden casket made by community members to Colonia Le Baron, Rhonita Miller was eulogized by mourners as a mother with "an innocent spirit" and "beautiful heart" whose laugh could light up a room.
They remembered her son Howard Jr., 12, as being proud of recently making his first three-point basketball shot. Miller's daughter Kristal, 10, was praised as the "the apple of her daddy's eye. And her twins Titus and Tiana, born last March, were called "two perfect angels in the first precious moments of their lives."
In a place where families felt safe enough to allow their kids to play outside, the biggest concern for residents is finding out why the women and children were massacred – and that answer will help them decide whether to stay or leave.
"I just think the innocence is gone," Darger said. "And so unless people feel safe, they're going to look for other places they can feel safe."
He added: "It's a matter of `What do we do going forward?' That's the question."
END
Note: photos, etc. at link:
Residents of Mexican town struggle with fear after cartel ambush
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 8, 2019 AT 6:51 AM
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 8, 2019 AT 2:10 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2836095/residents-of-mexican-town-struggle-with-fear-after-cartel-ambush/
A boy pauses as he speaks next to the coffins of Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and her sons Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 2, who were killed by drug cartel gunmen, during the funeral at a family cemetery in La Mora, Sonora state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Three women and six of their children, all members of the extended LeBaron family, died when they were gunned down in an attack while traveling along Mexico's Chihuahua and Sonora state border on Monday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
LA MORA, Mexico – U.S. citizens living in a small Mexican farming community established by their Mormon ancestors are trying to decide whether they should stay or leave after burying some of the nine American women and children slaughtered this week in a drug cartel ambush.
What had been a peaceful existence in a fertile valley ringed by rugged mountains and desert scrub about 70 miles (112 kilometers) from the border with Arizona became increasingly dangerous in recent years as cartels exerted their power and fought each other in Sonora state, a drug smuggling hotbed.
But La Mora, a hamlet of about 300 people where residents raise cattle and cultivate pomegranates, "will be forever changed" following the killings Monday as the women traveled with their children to visit relatives, a tearful David Langford told mourners at the funeral for his wife, Dawna Ray Langford, and their 11-year-old and 2-year-old sons.
"One of the dearest things to our lives is the safety of our family," said Langford. "And I won't feel safe. I haven't for a few years here."
Related Links
Young Phoenix-area relative of Mexico ambush victims makes tribute video
Here's what we know about the killings of 9 Americans in Mexico
Mexico farm town buries 3 of 9 slain Americans
Travelers mull safety amid Arizona-Mexico border violence
On Friday, the bodies of Rhonita Miller and four of her children were being taken in a convoy of pickup trucks and SUVS, on the same dirt-and-rock mountainous road where they were killed, for burial in the community of Colonia Le Baron in Chihuahua state. Many residents of the two communities that lie a five-hour, bone-jarring drive apart are related. They consider themselves Mormon but are not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and many have dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship.
Colonia LeBaron has been largely peaceful since the 2009 killing of one of its members who was an anti-crime activist prompted Mexican authorities to establish a security base. But the police presence in La Mora was negligible until the women and children were killed and authorities sent a swarm of state and federal police to the area. How long they stay could be crucial to the community's future, residents said.
"The truth is we aren't safe here as a community," Langford said. "We live in the mountains, we have no access to authorities, or very, very little."
Former La Mora Mayor Steven Langford predicted that as many as half of the community's the residents could leave, turning it into a "ghost town." The motive in the killings still isn't known, though Mexican authorities have suggested the victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time as competing cartels fought over turf and may have mistaken the SUVs the women and children were in for rivals who travel in similar vehicles.
As he barbequed beef and chicken to feed hundreds of mourners arriving from the U.S. and other parts of Mexico for the funerals, Erasmo Valenzuela said he heard that two or three families plan to leave La Mora. Valenzuela, 50, has worked for the community's families for 10 years and predicted a permanent military presence could be established in the area.
"Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen, so that we feel safer," he said.
Residents of La Mora dispute the theory that the victims were not targeted, saying eight children who survived the massacre saw one mother get out of her SUV and raise her hands only to be gunned down anyway. That mother's checkbook was discovered about 10 yards (meters) away from the burned vehicle, suggesting someone rifled it before setting it ablaze, said Julian LeBaron, whose brother Benjamin was killed 10 years ago in Colonia Le Baron
Until answers emerge as to why the women and children were killed, Joe Darger said his daughter who lives in Utah but maintains a second home in La Mora won't be spending time again in a place that had been part of her family's life.
"Until there's answers, she's not bringing her kids," Darger, of Salt Lake City, said after traveling to La Mora for the funerals.
Before her body was taken in a simple wooden casket made by community members to Colonia Le Baron, Rhonita Miller was eulogized by mourners as a mother with "an innocent spirit" and "beautiful heart" whose laugh could light up a room.
They remembered her son Howard Jr., 12, as being proud of recently making his first three-point basketball shot. Miller's daughter Kristal, 10, was praised as the "the apple of her daddy's eye. And her twins Titus and Tiana, born last March, were called "two perfect angels in the first precious moments of their lives."
In a place where families felt safe enough to allow their kids to play outside, the biggest concern for residents is finding out why the women and children were massacred – and that answer will help them decide whether to stay or leave.
"I just think the innocence is gone," Darger said. "And so unless people feel safe, they're going to look for other places they can feel safe."
He added: "It's a matter of `What do we do going forward?' That's the question."
END
Thursday, November 7, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL 7-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 7 NOV 2019
Mexico Now Says Different Cartel Responsible for Mormon Family Murders - Can We Trust Mexico?
Written by Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby | Source: Breitbart | November 06, 2019 01:09 PM
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/695505-mexico-now-says-different-cartel-responsible-for-mormon-family-murders-special?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-AOL
Mexican security officials leading the investigation into the mass murder of nine Mormons in Sonora
say the victims were likely mistaken for a rival cartel convoy.
They also believe the Juarez Cartel–not the Sinaloa Cartel–is now to blame.
On Monday, a group of cartel gunmen shot and killed three women and six children
as they were driving in the mountainous region between the Mexican border states of Sonora and Chihuahua,
just south of the New Mexico boot heel.
Authorities revealed they collected more than 200 rounds of spent .223 ammunition casings at the scene of the attack.
During a press conference on Wednesday morning, Mexican Army General Homero Mendoza said that earlier in the day of the incident,
gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel faction "Gente Nueva de Los Los Salazar" clashed with rivals from "La Linea,"
the enforcement wing of the Juarez Cartel, based in the border state of Chihuahua.
The clashes took place in Agua Prieta, Sonora, when authorities received information on various skirmishes between
La Linea and Los Salazar shortly after 3:15am local time.
Three hours later, authorities responded to another incident at a funeral home in Agua Prieta.
After attacking the Sinaloa Cartel turf, La Linea took a series of defensive measures to keep rivals from entering Chihuahua for payback,
Mendoza said in reference to a working theory on the case.
"[La Linea] placed a cell between the towns of Janos and Bavispe in the border of both states (Sonora and Chihuahua).
It is assumed they sent it to stop any penetration by Los Salazar
and it is assumed that this group is the one that took part in the aggression against the LeBaron family," the general added.
The working theory is that since members of the LeBaron family were moving in four large SUVs,
gunmen mistook them for a rival convoy, the general said.
"The types of vehicles they used,
Suburbans, are commonly used by organized crime members moving along the mountain region," Mendoza said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Augusto Peniche claimed the likely suspects
were the "Jaguares" cell within the Sinaloa Cartel since they control Agua Prieta.
He said the Jaguares were at odds with La Linea and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project
with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management.
\Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexican President AMLO on Cartels: 'War Not an Option'
This article was sourced from Breitbart
In the aftermath of a cartel massacre that killed nine Americans driving through the mountainous region south of the New Mexico border,
Mexico's president said that going to "war" with cartels is not an option.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) made the statement on Wednesday morning during his daily press conference.
The comment comes at a time when pressure continues to mount over the perception that Mexico has gone soft on security issues.
"War is the most irrational thing there can be and that is not going to be an option," Lopez Obrador said.
( Corrupt idiot or bought off ? )
The follows soon after a group of cartel gunmen presumably with "La Linea" faction of the Juarez Cartel murdered
three women and six children while injuring six others. One day after the massacre,
President Donald Trump reached out to AMLO initially via Twitter to offer any needed resources for "war" against cartels.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels
and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!
"He offered help and he stated that he will be ready to any call for help from us in that matter," Lopez Obrador said,
"I thanked him for his interest in participating in this issue and I thanked him for being respectful of our sovereignty."
Going to war was tried in the past and it only brought more violence and death, Lopez Obrador argued.
In regard to criticism from U.S. politicians and pundits, AMLO said he respects their vision, but he does not share it.
"We are taking a different approach. That approach was tried for 36 years and it failed," Lopez Obrador said.
"We are going to prove that our approach works."
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management.
You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management.
Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
IEnd
Mexico Now Says Different Cartel Responsible for Mormon Family Murders - Can We Trust Mexico?
Written by Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby | Source: Breitbart | November 06, 2019 01:09 PM
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/695505-mexico-now-says-different-cartel-responsible-for-mormon-family-murders-special?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-AOL
Mexican security officials leading the investigation into the mass murder of nine Mormons in Sonora
say the victims were likely mistaken for a rival cartel convoy.
They also believe the Juarez Cartel–not the Sinaloa Cartel–is now to blame.
On Monday, a group of cartel gunmen shot and killed three women and six children
as they were driving in the mountainous region between the Mexican border states of Sonora and Chihuahua,
just south of the New Mexico boot heel.
Authorities revealed they collected more than 200 rounds of spent .223 ammunition casings at the scene of the attack.
During a press conference on Wednesday morning, Mexican Army General Homero Mendoza said that earlier in the day of the incident,
gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel faction "Gente Nueva de Los Los Salazar" clashed with rivals from "La Linea,"
the enforcement wing of the Juarez Cartel, based in the border state of Chihuahua.
The clashes took place in Agua Prieta, Sonora, when authorities received information on various skirmishes between
La Linea and Los Salazar shortly after 3:15am local time.
Three hours later, authorities responded to another incident at a funeral home in Agua Prieta.
After attacking the Sinaloa Cartel turf, La Linea took a series of defensive measures to keep rivals from entering Chihuahua for payback,
Mendoza said in reference to a working theory on the case.
"[La Linea] placed a cell between the towns of Janos and Bavispe in the border of both states (Sonora and Chihuahua).
It is assumed they sent it to stop any penetration by Los Salazar
and it is assumed that this group is the one that took part in the aggression against the LeBaron family," the general added.
The working theory is that since members of the LeBaron family were moving in four large SUVs,
gunmen mistook them for a rival convoy, the general said.
"The types of vehicles they used,
Suburbans, are commonly used by organized crime members moving along the mountain region," Mendoza said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Augusto Peniche claimed the likely suspects
were the "Jaguares" cell within the Sinaloa Cartel since they control Agua Prieta.
He said the Jaguares were at odds with La Linea and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project
with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management.
\Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexican President AMLO on Cartels: 'War Not an Option'
This article was sourced from Breitbart
In the aftermath of a cartel massacre that killed nine Americans driving through the mountainous region south of the New Mexico border,
Mexico's president said that going to "war" with cartels is not an option.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) made the statement on Wednesday morning during his daily press conference.
The comment comes at a time when pressure continues to mount over the perception that Mexico has gone soft on security issues.
"War is the most irrational thing there can be and that is not going to be an option," Lopez Obrador said.
( Corrupt idiot or bought off ? )
The follows soon after a group of cartel gunmen presumably with "La Linea" faction of the Juarez Cartel murdered
three women and six children while injuring six others. One day after the massacre,
President Donald Trump reached out to AMLO initially via Twitter to offer any needed resources for "war" against cartels.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels
and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!
"He offered help and he stated that he will be ready to any call for help from us in that matter," Lopez Obrador said,
"I thanked him for his interest in participating in this issue and I thanked him for being respectful of our sovereignty."
Going to war was tried in the past and it only brought more violence and death, Lopez Obrador argued.
In regard to criticism from U.S. politicians and pundits, AMLO said he respects their vision, but he does not share it.
"We are taking a different approach. That approach was tried for 36 years and it failed," Lopez Obrador said.
"We are going to prove that our approach works."
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management.
You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management.
Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
IEnd
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL5 6-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL5 6 NOV 2019
Note: photos at link:
Mexican ambush survivors received by DFD
By Wick Communications Nov 5, 2019 Updated 14 hrs ago
https://www.douglasdispatch.com/news/mexican-ambush-survivors-received-by-dfd/article_02dcd398-0028-11ea-a699-0b502b0249b6.html
Douglas Fire Department paramedics received and helped transport survivors of an attack on American citizens
in the northern Mexican state of Sonora on Monday that left at least nine dead and multiple others injured.
The victims came through the Douglas Port of Entry shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday to receive medical treatment in the United States.
Five children, ranging in age from 10-months to 14-years, who had sustained gunshot wounds were brought to the Douglas port by the Mexican Red Cross.
Four of the wounded were then taken by the DFD to the Douglas Municipal Airport
where four helicopters took them to hospitals in Tucson and Phoenix for additional care.
The fifth victim was transported by ambulance to the Douglas Emergency Department before being transported to a Tucson hospital.
Lt. Mark Wilkinson of the Douglas Police Department said officers responded to assist the DFD in the transport of those patients.
According to various news reports, a caravan of SUVs was traveling from Bavispe, Sonora to a wedding in the Mormon community of La Mora
in the state of Chihuahua when the group was ambushed.
The barrage of gunfire caused one of the vehicles to explode and some of the victims died in the flames.
Although relatives of the victims and media outlets in the United States are reporting nine people perished,
the Mexican newspaper El Universal is reporting at least a dozen people in the group,
including three mothers and their young children, were killed in the ambush.
Multiple media outlets have reported that Mexican law enforcement speculate the attack may have been a case of mistaken identity.
But it has also been reported that they were outspoken against criminal groups that operate in the area and this may have been a backlash.
The victims were members of the LeBarón family, a group of dual Mexican and American citizens
who have lived in a fundamentalist Mormon community in the border region since the 1940s.
The New York Times spoke to Julian LeBarón, a cousin of some of the victims.
He said some of the children hid by the roadside to escape.
Family members told the Times the surviving children included a 7-month-old infant and a child about 12 years old who hiked for miles to seek help.
Much of the LeBarón family now lives in North Dakota, where they work in the oil fields and run businesses,
but they frequently travel to the border area for holidays, vacations and other special events, said Kenny LeBarón, a cousin of the three slain women.
David Langford, the brother of one of the victims, said the three women who died were his sister Christina Langford; Dawna Langford and Rhonita LeBarón.
The Williston (North Dakota) Herald, a sister paper of the Douglas Dispatch, quoted family members' social media posts.
"These are all American Citizens," relative Tiffany Langford wrote on Facebook. "Mexico is working to help, but not able to do anything of significance so far.
They need help. We are pleading with America to step in and help their people."
Langford listed those killed as Rhonita Maria Miller, 30; Howard Jacob Miller, Jr., 12; Krystal Bellaine Miller, 10; Titus Alvin Miller
and Tiana Gricel Miller, 8 month-old twins;
Christina Marie Langford Johnson, 31; Dawna Ray Langford, 43; Trevor Harvey Langford, 11; and Rogan Jay Langford, 2.
END
Note: photos at link:
Mexican ambush survivors received by DFD
By Wick Communications Nov 5, 2019 Updated 14 hrs ago
https://www.douglasdispatch.com/news/mexican-ambush-survivors-received-by-dfd/article_02dcd398-0028-11ea-a699-0b502b0249b6.html
Douglas Fire Department paramedics received and helped transport survivors of an attack on American citizens
in the northern Mexican state of Sonora on Monday that left at least nine dead and multiple others injured.
The victims came through the Douglas Port of Entry shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday to receive medical treatment in the United States.
Five children, ranging in age from 10-months to 14-years, who had sustained gunshot wounds were brought to the Douglas port by the Mexican Red Cross.
Four of the wounded were then taken by the DFD to the Douglas Municipal Airport
where four helicopters took them to hospitals in Tucson and Phoenix for additional care.
The fifth victim was transported by ambulance to the Douglas Emergency Department before being transported to a Tucson hospital.
Lt. Mark Wilkinson of the Douglas Police Department said officers responded to assist the DFD in the transport of those patients.
According to various news reports, a caravan of SUVs was traveling from Bavispe, Sonora to a wedding in the Mormon community of La Mora
in the state of Chihuahua when the group was ambushed.
The barrage of gunfire caused one of the vehicles to explode and some of the victims died in the flames.
Although relatives of the victims and media outlets in the United States are reporting nine people perished,
the Mexican newspaper El Universal is reporting at least a dozen people in the group,
including three mothers and their young children, were killed in the ambush.
Multiple media outlets have reported that Mexican law enforcement speculate the attack may have been a case of mistaken identity.
But it has also been reported that they were outspoken against criminal groups that operate in the area and this may have been a backlash.
The victims were members of the LeBarón family, a group of dual Mexican and American citizens
who have lived in a fundamentalist Mormon community in the border region since the 1940s.
The New York Times spoke to Julian LeBarón, a cousin of some of the victims.
He said some of the children hid by the roadside to escape.
Family members told the Times the surviving children included a 7-month-old infant and a child about 12 years old who hiked for miles to seek help.
Much of the LeBarón family now lives in North Dakota, where they work in the oil fields and run businesses,
but they frequently travel to the border area for holidays, vacations and other special events, said Kenny LeBarón, a cousin of the three slain women.
David Langford, the brother of one of the victims, said the three women who died were his sister Christina Langford; Dawna Langford and Rhonita LeBarón.
The Williston (North Dakota) Herald, a sister paper of the Douglas Dispatch, quoted family members' social media posts.
"These are all American Citizens," relative Tiffany Langford wrote on Facebook. "Mexico is working to help, but not able to do anything of significance so far.
They need help. We are pleading with America to step in and help their people."
Langford listed those killed as Rhonita Maria Miller, 30; Howard Jacob Miller, Jr., 12; Krystal Bellaine Miller, 10; Titus Alvin Miller
and Tiana Gricel Miller, 8 month-old twins;
Christina Marie Langford Johnson, 31; Dawna Ray Langford, 43; Trevor Harvey Langford, 11; and Rogan Jay Langford, 2.
END
AZMEX SPECIAL4 6-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL4 6 NOV 2019
AP - INTERNATIONAL NEWS
The Latest: Mexican army says gunmen may have mistaken SUVs
Associated Press 10:32 am November 6, 2019
https://kvoa.com/ap-international-news/2019/11/06/the-latest-suspect-arrested-over-slaying-of-9-in-mexico/
https://kvoa.com/ap-international-news/2019/11/06/the-latest-suspect-arrested-over-slaying-of-9-in
GALEANA, Mexico (AP) —
The Latest on the slaying of nine U.S. citizens in Mexico (all times local):
11:25 a.m.
Mexican officials say gunmen who killed nine U.S. citizens — three women and six children —
may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for those of a rival drug gang.
Gen. Hector Mendoza, Mexico's army chief of staff, said Wednesday that the attackers let some surviving children go,
indicating that "it was not a targeted attack."
Mendoza said the ambush consisted of two attacks, two hours apart at two places along the road.
He said at 9 a.m. a Chevy Tahoe was hit by bullets and exploded in flames, and at 11 a.m.,
two Suburbans — one carrying the mother and her baby — were hit by gunfire.
The Americans were all living in northern Mexico.
The Juarez drug cartel and its armed wing, known as "La Linea," or "The Line,"
are fighting a vicious turf war against a faction of the Sinaloa cartel known as the "Salazar."
3:15 a.m.
Criminal investigators in northern Mexico say a suspect has been arrested and is under investigation for possible connections
with the deaths of nine U.S. citizens — three women and six children — slaughtered Monday when cartel gunmen ambushed their vehicles.
In a statement posted on Facebook, the Agency for Criminal Investigation for the state of Sonora said Tuesday
that the suspect was found in the town of Agua Prieta, right at the border with the U.S. state of Arizona,
holding two hostages who were gagged and tied inside a vehicle.
The suspect, whose gender was not specified in the release, was also found in the possession of four assault rifles and ammunition,
as well as various large vehicles including a bullet-proofed SUV.
Officials have said that the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for those of a rival gang amid a vicious turf war.
Eight children, some just infants, survived the ambush.
___
12:05 a.m.
The eight children, some mere infants, who survived the ambush in northern Mexico not only escaped the drug cartel gunmen who killed their mothers
but managed to hide in the brush, with some walking miles to get help despite grisly bullet wounds.
In a testament to a mother's devotion, one woman reportedly stashed her baby on the floor of her Suburban
and got out of the vehicle, waving her arms to show the gunmen she wasn't a threat.
She may have moved away from the vehicle to distract their attention; her bullet-ridden body was found about 15 yards away from the SUV.
The mother was one of nine U.S. citizens slaughtered Monday when gunmen ambushed
three SUVs along a road in an attack that left one vehicle a bullet-riddled hulk.
END
AP - INTERNATIONAL NEWS
The Latest: Mexican army says gunmen may have mistaken SUVs
Associated Press 10:32 am November 6, 2019
https://kvoa.com/ap-international-news/2019/11/06/the-latest-suspect-arrested-over-slaying-of-9-in-mexico/
https://kvoa.com/ap-international-news/2019/11/06/the-latest-suspect-arrested-over-slaying-of-9-in
GALEANA, Mexico (AP) —
The Latest on the slaying of nine U.S. citizens in Mexico (all times local):
11:25 a.m.
Mexican officials say gunmen who killed nine U.S. citizens — three women and six children —
may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for those of a rival drug gang.
Gen. Hector Mendoza, Mexico's army chief of staff, said Wednesday that the attackers let some surviving children go,
indicating that "it was not a targeted attack."
Mendoza said the ambush consisted of two attacks, two hours apart at two places along the road.
He said at 9 a.m. a Chevy Tahoe was hit by bullets and exploded in flames, and at 11 a.m.,
two Suburbans — one carrying the mother and her baby — were hit by gunfire.
The Americans were all living in northern Mexico.
The Juarez drug cartel and its armed wing, known as "La Linea," or "The Line,"
are fighting a vicious turf war against a faction of the Sinaloa cartel known as the "Salazar."
3:15 a.m.
Criminal investigators in northern Mexico say a suspect has been arrested and is under investigation for possible connections
with the deaths of nine U.S. citizens — three women and six children — slaughtered Monday when cartel gunmen ambushed their vehicles.
In a statement posted on Facebook, the Agency for Criminal Investigation for the state of Sonora said Tuesday
that the suspect was found in the town of Agua Prieta, right at the border with the U.S. state of Arizona,
holding two hostages who were gagged and tied inside a vehicle.
The suspect, whose gender was not specified in the release, was also found in the possession of four assault rifles and ammunition,
as well as various large vehicles including a bullet-proofed SUV.
Officials have said that the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for those of a rival gang amid a vicious turf war.
Eight children, some just infants, survived the ambush.
___
12:05 a.m.
The eight children, some mere infants, who survived the ambush in northern Mexico not only escaped the drug cartel gunmen who killed their mothers
but managed to hide in the brush, with some walking miles to get help despite grisly bullet wounds.
In a testament to a mother's devotion, one woman reportedly stashed her baby on the floor of her Suburban
and got out of the vehicle, waving her arms to show the gunmen she wasn't a threat.
She may have moved away from the vehicle to distract their attention; her bullet-ridden body was found about 15 yards away from the SUV.
The mother was one of nine U.S. citizens slaughtered Monday when gunmen ambushed
three SUVs along a road in an attack that left one vehicle a bullet-riddled hulk.
END
AZMEX POLICY 6 - 11 -19
AZMEX POLICY 6 NOV 2019
Tucson voters soundly reject 'sanctuary city' initiative
Posted: 8:09 PM, Nov 05, 2019 Updated: 10:35 PM, Nov 05, 2019
https://www.kgun9.com/news/political/elections-local/tucson-voters-soundly-reject-sanctuary-city-initiative
Tucson will not become Arizona's first sanctuary city after voters rejected Prop 205 Tuesday night.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Tucson will not become Arizona's first sanctuary city after voters rejected Prop 205 Tuesday night.
The ballot measure was soundly rejected by 71.4 percent of voters in Tucson,
according to unofficial election results released by the city, with all precincts reporting.
Some remaining ballots will be counted in the coming days.
The group Tucson Families Free and Together spearheaded the ballot initiative earlier this year,
collecting thousands of signatures in the city.
Despite several attempts to block the measure from appearing on Tuesday's ballot, their efforts were ultimately successful.
The measure was widely opposed by local leaders including the
Pima County Sheriff, Tucson Police officials and Tucson's largely Democratic city council and mayor.
RELATED: Tucson could become Arizona's first sanctuary city.
Here's what that meansTucson voters soundly reject 'sanctuary city' initiative
Posted: 8:09 PM, Nov 05, 2019 Updated: 10:35 PM, Nov 05, 2019
Tucson voters soundly reject 'sanctuary city' initiative
Posted: 8:09 PM, Nov 05, 2019 Updated: 10:35 PM, Nov 05, 2019
https://www.kgun9.com/news/political/elections-local/tucson-voters-soundly-reject-sanctuary-city-initiative
Tucson will not become Arizona's first sanctuary city after voters rejected Prop 205 Tuesday night.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Tucson will not become Arizona's first sanctuary city after voters rejected Prop 205 Tuesday night.
The ballot measure was soundly rejected by 71.4 percent of voters in Tucson,
according to unofficial election results released by the city, with all precincts reporting.
Some remaining ballots will be counted in the coming days.
The group Tucson Families Free and Together spearheaded the ballot initiative earlier this year,
collecting thousands of signatures in the city.
Despite several attempts to block the measure from appearing on Tuesday's ballot, their efforts were ultimately successful.
The measure was widely opposed by local leaders including the
Pima County Sheriff, Tucson Police officials and Tucson's largely Democratic city council and mayor.
RELATED: Tucson could become Arizona's first sanctuary city.
Here's what that meansTucson voters soundly reject 'sanctuary city' initiative
Posted: 8:09 PM, Nov 05, 2019 Updated: 10:35 PM, Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
AZMEX SPECIAL3 5-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL3 5 NOV 2019
Comment: time to put the American dopers who finance the cartels in prison.
thx
Former ambassador to Mexico offers solution after murders of 9 Americans in cartel shootout
By Julia Musto | Fox News
s://www.foxnews.com/media/ambassador-mexico-drug-cartels-homicide-mormons-kidnapping
Trump calls for war on Mexican drug cartels
Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne discusses the challenges and potential solutions to Mexico's cartel problem
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ambassador-mexico-drug-cartels-homicide-mormons-kidnapping
The only way to fix the problems at the southern border is to commit to a working partnership with Mexico,
former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne said Tuesday.
Appearing on "America's Newsroom" with hosts Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith, Wayne said the "number of instances of criminal violence over past weeks"
is "part of a problem that Mexico has been grappling with for a number of years"
-- including when he was an ambassador and tried to find an effective strategy to counter it.
On Monday, at least six children and three women living in a Mormon offshoot community of U.S. citizens in Mexico
were shot to death and five children were injured after their convoy came under fire during a brazen daylight ambush
believed to have been carried out by gunmen affiliated with organized crime in the country.
GINGRICH: DEATHS OF AMERICANS IN MEXICAN CARTEL SHOOTOUT ARE A 'WAKE-UP CALL'
Those attacked were members of the LeBaron family, a well-known American clan who have lived in the fundamentalist community
in the northern part of the country for decades, according to the New York Times.
More than a dozen other members of La Mora — a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — were missing after the attack on the convoy of three SUVs, a relative told The Associated Press.
In a series of tweets Tuesday morning, President Trump hit out at the "monsters" who perpetrated the act.
"A wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other,
with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing.
If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters,
the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively.
The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue,
but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!"
This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels
and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!
Wayne said that the real way to get a lasting solution to combat cartels is by doubling down on "cooperating against this organized crime."
"We just have to be better working together on both sides of the border to deal with this problem," said Wayne.
Wayne told the "Newsroom" hosts that recently the two governments have set up a number of working groups
to try to "better define a new strategy for going after organized crime."
He said that both nations have a sovereign interest in tackling border security and violence, but that solutions won't be easy.
"What is clear is that we need, from both governments, a focus," said Wayne.
" Because this incident just highlights the tragedy on both sides of the border.
In Mexico, they're heading toward a new high of homicides this year and last year was a record.
In the United States, as you know, we have these tens of thousands of people who are dying of drug overdoses.
We need to solve this problem."
"It's only going to happen if both sides really commit to an intensive partnership," he concluded.
Fox News' Danielle Wallace and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
END
Comment: time to put the American dopers who finance the cartels in prison.
thx
Former ambassador to Mexico offers solution after murders of 9 Americans in cartel shootout
By Julia Musto | Fox News
s://www.foxnews.com/media/ambassador-mexico-drug-cartels-homicide-mormons-kidnapping
Trump calls for war on Mexican drug cartels
Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne discusses the challenges and potential solutions to Mexico's cartel problem
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ambassador-mexico-drug-cartels-homicide-mormons-kidnapping
The only way to fix the problems at the southern border is to commit to a working partnership with Mexico,
former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne said Tuesday.
Appearing on "America's Newsroom" with hosts Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith, Wayne said the "number of instances of criminal violence over past weeks"
is "part of a problem that Mexico has been grappling with for a number of years"
-- including when he was an ambassador and tried to find an effective strategy to counter it.
On Monday, at least six children and three women living in a Mormon offshoot community of U.S. citizens in Mexico
were shot to death and five children were injured after their convoy came under fire during a brazen daylight ambush
believed to have been carried out by gunmen affiliated with organized crime in the country.
GINGRICH: DEATHS OF AMERICANS IN MEXICAN CARTEL SHOOTOUT ARE A 'WAKE-UP CALL'
Those attacked were members of the LeBaron family, a well-known American clan who have lived in the fundamentalist community
in the northern part of the country for decades, according to the New York Times.
More than a dozen other members of La Mora — a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — were missing after the attack on the convoy of three SUVs, a relative told The Associated Press.
In a series of tweets Tuesday morning, President Trump hit out at the "monsters" who perpetrated the act.
"A wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other,
with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing.
If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters,
the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively.
The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue,
but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!"
This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels
and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!
Wayne said that the real way to get a lasting solution to combat cartels is by doubling down on "cooperating against this organized crime."
"We just have to be better working together on both sides of the border to deal with this problem," said Wayne.
Wayne told the "Newsroom" hosts that recently the two governments have set up a number of working groups
to try to "better define a new strategy for going after organized crime."
He said that both nations have a sovereign interest in tackling border security and violence, but that solutions won't be easy.
"What is clear is that we need, from both governments, a focus," said Wayne.
" Because this incident just highlights the tragedy on both sides of the border.
In Mexico, they're heading toward a new high of homicides this year and last year was a record.
In the United States, as you know, we have these tens of thousands of people who are dying of drug overdoses.
We need to solve this problem."
"It's only going to happen if both sides really commit to an intensive partnership," he concluded.
Fox News' Danielle Wallace and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
END
AZMEX SPECIAL2 5-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL2 5 NOV 2019
Note: family photos, etc. at link:
At least 9 US citizens die in cartel attack in north Mexico
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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 5, 2019 AT 4:55 AM
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 5, 2019 AT 12:12 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2831252/at-least-9-us-citizens-die-in-cartel-attack-in-north-mexico/
(Kenny Miller/Courtesy of Alex LeBaron via AP)
MEXICO CITY – Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering at least six children and three women – all of them U.S. citizens living in northern Mexico – in a grisly attack that left one vehicle a burned-out, bullet-riddled hulk, authorities said Tuesday.
The dead included 8-month-old twins. Eight children were found alive after escaping from the vehicles and hiding in the brush, but at least five had bullet wounds or other injuries and were taken to Phoenix for treatment.
The gunmen apparently killed one woman, Christina Langford Johnson, after she jumped out of her vehicle and waved her hands to show she wasn't a threat, according to an account published by family members and corroborated by prosecutors and a relative in a telephone interview.
Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs.
Relatives said the victims are from the La Mora religious community in northern Mexico, a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Taylor Langford said in an interview Tuesday that he was provided with an account of what happened by his father and his uncle, who Langford said went to the scene and spoke with Mexican authorities.
Langford said a car driven by Rhonita Miller that was about 10 miles behind the other two cars was shot first until it was engulfed in flames, burning her and her four children, including twin babies.
He said the other two cars were attacked next and that Christina Langford had her baby in her car and Dawna Langford had nine children in hers.
Langford said a 9-year-old girl shot in the arm and found hours later.
He said Miller was on her way to Phoenix to pick up her husband from the airport and that the other two women were on their way to visit relatives who live in Mexico.
The U.S. Embassy did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mexico's federal Department of Security and Citizens' Protection said late Monday that security forces were reinforced with National Guard, army and state police troops in the area following "the reports about disappearance and aggression against several people." The troops were searching for the missing community members, believed to include 11 children or more.
Another relative, Julian LeBaron, said on his Facebook page the dead woman was Rhonita Maria LeBaron.
Another family member, Nefi LeBaron, posted a video of the burned-out vehicle.
An unidentified man in tears said, "Nita and four of my grandchildren are burnt and shot up."
LeBaron also posted a pair of family portraits to social media.
13 US CITIZENS KIDNAPPED AND BEING KILLED... This is happening at this very moment, please help spread the word!! 💔😠Update: Devan and Trevor ran over 5 miles to get help. These 2 brave boys hid as many of the surviving children as they could. They are hidden under a tree. Donna and Christina have been confirmed shot and killed along with some of the younger children. We don't know how many of the kids made it. They were ambushed. The families are currently headed to rescue the surviving children. We don't know who survive or who's injured or if they are still in danger. More updates to come.
13 US CITIZENS KIDNAPPED AND BEING KILLED... 3 mothers 7 innocent children murdered... 4 children are being rescued at this moment.
Short summary: All 3 families were driving together in a caravan through Northern Mexico. We assume that they got in a mafia cross fire. The families are thinking that the mafia mistook Rhonita's vehicle for a rivals, then proceeded to attack. They eventually realized they killed an innocent family. To cover their tracks they burnt the vehicle with all of the passengers inside. Then took all the other woman and children hostage. It's a developing story. That's all we have. 10 confirmed dead. 13 victims are children.
1 mother (Rhonita) and 4 kids shot and burned alive.
2 mothers and their children kidnapped. (Then these 2 mothers and 3 more children were confirmed dead...) 1st mother: Dawna langford 43
Her kids:
kylie evelyn 14
devin blake 13
Trevor harvey 11
Mckenzie rayne 9
Cody greyson 7
Jake ryder 6
Xander boe 4
Rogan Jay 3
Brixon Oliver 10 months
2nd mother: Christina with her infant baby.
They are all US citizens.
This happened sometime this afternoon.
Please contact your local news stations. Send them pictures and info. We need to blast this story! Please share and please continue praying for these families. The more awareness we create, the more pressure it puts on getting the survivors back.
I am in shock and are horrified. Please help bring the survivors home safely. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
President Donald Trump tweeted the U.S. was ready to help Mexico rid itself of the drug cartels.
A wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other, with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing. If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these.....
....monsters, the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively. The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!
John LeBaron, another relative, posted on his Facebook page that six of his aunt's children had been left abandoned but alive on a roadside.
It would not be the first time that members of the break-away church had been attacked in northern Mexico, where their forebears settled – often in Chihuahua state – decades ago.
In 2009, Benjamin LeBaron, an anti-crime activist who was related to those killed in Monday's attack, was murdered in 2009 in neighboring Chihuahua state.
A suspect was detained near Agua Prieta, the Sonora prosecutor's office said, but it was unclear whether the person had taken part in the ambush.
The suspect had assault rifles and a .50-caliber sniper rifle and was holding two bound kidnap victims, authorities said.
End
Note: family photos, etc. at link:
At least 9 US citizens die in cartel attack in north Mexico
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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 5, 2019 AT 4:55 AM
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 5, 2019 AT 12:12 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2831252/at-least-9-us-citizens-die-in-cartel-attack-in-north-mexico/
(Kenny Miller/Courtesy of Alex LeBaron via AP)
MEXICO CITY – Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering at least six children and three women – all of them U.S. citizens living in northern Mexico – in a grisly attack that left one vehicle a burned-out, bullet-riddled hulk, authorities said Tuesday.
The dead included 8-month-old twins. Eight children were found alive after escaping from the vehicles and hiding in the brush, but at least five had bullet wounds or other injuries and were taken to Phoenix for treatment.
The gunmen apparently killed one woman, Christina Langford Johnson, after she jumped out of her vehicle and waved her hands to show she wasn't a threat, according to an account published by family members and corroborated by prosecutors and a relative in a telephone interview.
Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs.
Relatives said the victims are from the La Mora religious community in northern Mexico, a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Taylor Langford said in an interview Tuesday that he was provided with an account of what happened by his father and his uncle, who Langford said went to the scene and spoke with Mexican authorities.
Langford said a car driven by Rhonita Miller that was about 10 miles behind the other two cars was shot first until it was engulfed in flames, burning her and her four children, including twin babies.
He said the other two cars were attacked next and that Christina Langford had her baby in her car and Dawna Langford had nine children in hers.
Langford said a 9-year-old girl shot in the arm and found hours later.
He said Miller was on her way to Phoenix to pick up her husband from the airport and that the other two women were on their way to visit relatives who live in Mexico.
The U.S. Embassy did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mexico's federal Department of Security and Citizens' Protection said late Monday that security forces were reinforced with National Guard, army and state police troops in the area following "the reports about disappearance and aggression against several people." The troops were searching for the missing community members, believed to include 11 children or more.
Another relative, Julian LeBaron, said on his Facebook page the dead woman was Rhonita Maria LeBaron.
Another family member, Nefi LeBaron, posted a video of the burned-out vehicle.
An unidentified man in tears said, "Nita and four of my grandchildren are burnt and shot up."
LeBaron also posted a pair of family portraits to social media.
13 US CITIZENS KIDNAPPED AND BEING KILLED... This is happening at this very moment, please help spread the word!! 💔😠Update: Devan and Trevor ran over 5 miles to get help. These 2 brave boys hid as many of the surviving children as they could. They are hidden under a tree. Donna and Christina have been confirmed shot and killed along with some of the younger children. We don't know how many of the kids made it. They were ambushed. The families are currently headed to rescue the surviving children. We don't know who survive or who's injured or if they are still in danger. More updates to come.
13 US CITIZENS KIDNAPPED AND BEING KILLED... 3 mothers 7 innocent children murdered... 4 children are being rescued at this moment.
Short summary: All 3 families were driving together in a caravan through Northern Mexico. We assume that they got in a mafia cross fire. The families are thinking that the mafia mistook Rhonita's vehicle for a rivals, then proceeded to attack. They eventually realized they killed an innocent family. To cover their tracks they burnt the vehicle with all of the passengers inside. Then took all the other woman and children hostage. It's a developing story. That's all we have. 10 confirmed dead. 13 victims are children.
1 mother (Rhonita) and 4 kids shot and burned alive.
2 mothers and their children kidnapped. (Then these 2 mothers and 3 more children were confirmed dead...) 1st mother: Dawna langford 43
Her kids:
kylie evelyn 14
devin blake 13
Trevor harvey 11
Mckenzie rayne 9
Cody greyson 7
Jake ryder 6
Xander boe 4
Rogan Jay 3
Brixon Oliver 10 months
2nd mother: Christina with her infant baby.
They are all US citizens.
This happened sometime this afternoon.
Please contact your local news stations. Send them pictures and info. We need to blast this story! Please share and please continue praying for these families. The more awareness we create, the more pressure it puts on getting the survivors back.
I am in shock and are horrified. Please help bring the survivors home safely. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
President Donald Trump tweeted the U.S. was ready to help Mexico rid itself of the drug cartels.
A wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other, with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing. If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these.....
....monsters, the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively. The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!
John LeBaron, another relative, posted on his Facebook page that six of his aunt's children had been left abandoned but alive on a roadside.
It would not be the first time that members of the break-away church had been attacked in northern Mexico, where their forebears settled – often in Chihuahua state – decades ago.
In 2009, Benjamin LeBaron, an anti-crime activist who was related to those killed in Monday's attack, was murdered in 2009 in neighboring Chihuahua state.
A suspect was detained near Agua Prieta, the Sonora prosecutor's office said, but it was unclear whether the person had taken part in the ambush.
The suspect had assault rifles and a .50-caliber sniper rifle and was holding two bound kidnap victims, authorities said.
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AZMEX SPECIAL 5-11-19
AZMEX SPECIAL 5 NOV 2019
REGION
/ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2019
They murdered 9 members of the LeBarón family
https://www.elheraldodechihuahua.com.mx/local/region/asesinaron-a-9-miembros-de-la-familia-lebaron-4412732.html
Attacked by criminals when at least 15 people traveled by caravan from Galeana to Sonora
httphttps: //www.elheraldodechihuahua.com.mx/local/region/asesinaron-a-9-miembros-de-la-familia-lebaron-s: /huahua.com.mx/local/region/asesinaron-a-9 -members-of-the-family-lhttps: // https: // hhttps: //www.elheraldod
In the company of María Rhonita, two more vehicles were moved, one manned by Dawna Langford Ray and her eight children, as well as Christina Langford. Through family social networks they reported that the two women were found murdered after the attack on the road, along with several of their children, without specifying the exact number.
Who are the LeBarón family?
According to a person close to the victims through his Facebook account, one of the eldest sons managed to rescue four of his brothers from the shooting site and hid them among the bushes, then run to the ranch "La Mora " looking for help.
The man concludes his publication by mentioning that a group of community members undertook a search for survivors risking their own lives.
Trump offers support to Mexico after attack on LeBarón family ...
According to the first reports that were obtained from this case, the caravan members left Janos, later passed through the community of Pancho Villa and when they took the road that leads to "La Mora" they met a criminal group that opened fire on them.
Julián LeBarón asked the corresponding authorities that the facts do not remain in impunity, since they have constantly been victims of criminal groups operating in that region of the state.
One of the members of the LeBarón family who moved to the place filmed a video in which between sobs he comments: "Nita and four of my grandchildren were burned." In the video recording that was broadcast through Facebook, the man captures the Suburban that is still on fire.
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REGION
/ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2019
They murdered 9 members of the LeBarón family
https://www.elheraldodechihuahua.com.mx/local/region/asesinaron-a-9-miembros-de-la-familia-lebaron-4412732.html
Attacked by criminals when at least 15 people traveled by caravan from Galeana to Sonora
httphttps: //www.elheraldodechihuahua.com.mx/local/region/asesinaron-a-9-miembros-de-la-familia-lebaron-s: /huahua.com.mx/local/region/asesinaron-a-9 -members-of-the-family-lhttps: // https: // hhttps: //www.elheraldod
In the company of María Rhonita, two more vehicles were moved, one manned by Dawna Langford Ray and her eight children, as well as Christina Langford. Through family social networks they reported that the two women were found murdered after the attack on the road, along with several of their children, without specifying the exact number.
Who are the LeBarón family?
According to a person close to the victims through his Facebook account, one of the eldest sons managed to rescue four of his brothers from the shooting site and hid them among the bushes, then run to the ranch "La Mora " looking for help.
The man concludes his publication by mentioning that a group of community members undertook a search for survivors risking their own lives.
Trump offers support to Mexico after attack on LeBarón family ...
According to the first reports that were obtained from this case, the caravan members left Janos, later passed through the community of Pancho Villa and when they took the road that leads to "La Mora" they met a criminal group that opened fire on them.
Julián LeBarón asked the corresponding authorities that the facts do not remain in impunity, since they have constantly been victims of criminal groups operating in that region of the state.
One of the members of the LeBarón family who moved to the place filmed a video in which between sobs he comments: "Nita and four of my grandchildren were burned." In the video recording that was broadcast through Facebook, the man captures the Suburban that is still on fire.
End
Monday, November 4, 2019
AZMEX UPDATE 4-11=19
AZMEX UPDATE 4 NOV 2019
Gunfire in Arizona border town leads to police travel warning
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 4, 2019 AT 11:34 AM
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 4, 2019 AT 4:21 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2829996/gunfire-in-arizona-border-town-leads-to-police-travel-warning/
DOUGLAS, Ariz. – Police in the southern Arizona city of Douglas have issued a travel warning
in the wake of gunfire across the border in Mexico.
The Douglas Police Department posted on its Facebook page Monday that residents should avoid unnecessary travel into Mexico.
According to authorities, there have been reports of "sustained automatic gunfire" in Agua Prieta in the state of Sonora.
However, they said there were no threats at this time to Douglas or Cochise County.
Local, state and federal agencies are watching the situation.
END
Also: https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/douglas-police-advise-people-to-avoid-unnecessary-travel-to-mexico
More: Armed men threaten searchers in Rocky Point, more bodies found
Armed men threatened volunteer searchers who found dozens of bodies in clandestine burial pits.
(Source: Google cleared for reuse)
By KOLD News 13 Staff | November 4, 2019 at 2:34 PM MST - Updated November 4 at 2:34 PM
https://www.kold.com/2019/11/04/armed-men-threaten-searchers-rocky-point-more-bodies-found/
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Mexican state officials say armed men threatened volunteer searchers
who found dozens of bodies in clandestine burial pits near the Gulf of California resort of Puerto Penasco.
The Sonora state prosecutor's office says the "Searching Mothers of Sonora" group detected a clandestine burial pit
over the weekend and was waiting for investigators when a group of armed men drove up and told them to get out.
The office said Sunday that excavations at the site were then carried out with police protection.
Investigators found four complete skeletons at the site.
In October, the same searchers found a total of 42 bodies and skeletons in clandestine pits near
Puerto Penasco, also known as Rocky Point.
Drug and kidnapping gangs use such pits to dispose of the bodies of victims or rivals.
Rocky Point is located on the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. It is 211 miles southwest of Tucson.
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Gunfire in Arizona border town leads to police travel warning
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | NOVEMBER 4, 2019 AT 11:34 AM
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 4, 2019 AT 4:21 PM
https://ktar.com/story/2829996/gunfire-in-arizona-border-town-leads-to-police-travel-warning/
DOUGLAS, Ariz. – Police in the southern Arizona city of Douglas have issued a travel warning
in the wake of gunfire across the border in Mexico.
The Douglas Police Department posted on its Facebook page Monday that residents should avoid unnecessary travel into Mexico.
According to authorities, there have been reports of "sustained automatic gunfire" in Agua Prieta in the state of Sonora.
However, they said there were no threats at this time to Douglas or Cochise County.
Local, state and federal agencies are watching the situation.
END
Also: https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/douglas-police-advise-people-to-avoid-unnecessary-travel-to-mexico
More: Armed men threaten searchers in Rocky Point, more bodies found
Armed men threatened volunteer searchers who found dozens of bodies in clandestine burial pits.
(Source: Google cleared for reuse)
By KOLD News 13 Staff | November 4, 2019 at 2:34 PM MST - Updated November 4 at 2:34 PM
https://www.kold.com/2019/11/04/armed-men-threaten-searchers-rocky-point-more-bodies-found/
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Mexican state officials say armed men threatened volunteer searchers
who found dozens of bodies in clandestine burial pits near the Gulf of California resort of Puerto Penasco.
The Sonora state prosecutor's office says the "Searching Mothers of Sonora" group detected a clandestine burial pit
over the weekend and was waiting for investigators when a group of armed men drove up and told them to get out.
The office said Sunday that excavations at the site were then carried out with police protection.
Investigators found four complete skeletons at the site.
In October, the same searchers found a total of 42 bodies and skeletons in clandestine pits near
Puerto Penasco, also known as Rocky Point.
Drug and kidnapping gangs use such pits to dispose of the bodies of victims or rivals.
Rocky Point is located on the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. It is 211 miles southwest of Tucson.
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