Drug Gangs Threaten Tijuana Cops On Radio, Then Kill Them
February 8, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
The situation along the border continues to deteriorate.
Mexican drug gangs are breaking into Tijuana police radio frequencies to issue chilling death threats to cops which they then carry out, demoralizing security forces in a worsening drug war.
“You’re next, bastard … We’re going to get you,” an unidentified drug gang member said over the police radio in the city of Tijuana after naming a policeman.
The man also threatened a second cop by name and played foot-stomping “narcocorrido” music, popular with drug cartels, over the airwaves.
“No one can help them,” an officer named Jorge said of his threatened colleagues as he heard the threats in his patrol car.
Sure enough, two hours later the dead bodies of the two named policemen were found dumped on the edge of the city, their hands tied and bullet wounds in their heads.
Cartels killed some 530 police in Mexico last year, some of them corrupt officers who were working for rival gangs. Others were killed in shoot-outs or murdered for working against the gangs or refusing to turn a blind eye to drug shipments.
Violence has hit shocking levels in Tijuana, over the border from San Diego, since President Felipe Calderon launched an army crackdown on traffickers in late 2006, stirring up new wars between rival cartels over smuggling routes.
The drug war is scaring tourists and investors away from northern Mexico, forcing some businesses to shutter just as the country heads into recession this year.
Badly-paid Tijuana municipal police, often accused of collaborating with rival wings of the local Arellano Felix cartel, are badly demoralized, senior officers say.
“These death threats are part of the psychological warfare that organized crime is using against officers,” said Tijuana police chief Gustavo Huerta.
“Before, the gangs began infiltrating the radio after a police execution, which was bad enough, but now they are doing it beforehand and the force feels terrorized,” he said.
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Maybe if we created an easier way for Mexicans to enter and live in the U.S legally and legalized marijuana, cartels wouldn’t be fighting over smuggling routes because they wouldn’t be needed! You don’t see cartels smuggling alcohol into the U.S. do you? Too many people are dying because of our horrible polices. If we don’t change our policies, the Mexican government will collapse and there will be war with the terrorists in our neighboring country. Why isn’t this national news???
At the rate Hussein Obama is selling out this country the cartel will be able to buy it by 2010 or maybe sooner. Then clinton’s little brother can sell dope for the cartel.
American, causes its own problems. I agree with the writer it’s time to change U.S policies. Mexico can be easy bought, and its time the U.S realise they cannot win the war on drugs and will not win the war on drugs. America is runnig out if time. I have heard it here in the UK that so call terroists groups and drug smugglers are heading for mexico, and with lots of denaro (Cash)
First off, WERE’S The Danm Fence!!!
- :RapidRecon:-
America’s Unacknowledged War
Grenades that were used in three attacks — the first two in northern Mexico, the last in Texas — over the past four months all trace back to the same source, the paramilitary group known as Los Zetas. The attempted bombing in Texas occurred in January in a small town named Pharr, just outside of McAllen and Brownsville, and not all that far from the Mexican border and places like Matamoros and Monterrey. It so happens that another grenade failed to detonate in a January attack in Pharr. Three men, members of two gangs, Tri-City Bombers and the Texas Chicano Brotherhood, were arrested this week and charged with felony drug charges.
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