Mexico’s rival crime gangs are in an arms race, and the latest sign of that are the homemade “Mad Max” type heavily armored vehicles they deploy to withstand fierce clashes with each other.
The army found two more “narco tanks” over the weekend in Ciudad Camargo in Tamaulipas state along the border with Texas.
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Click2Houston reports a that a rocket launcher was discovered in a Houston apartment by police responding to a disturbance call. A woman called police on Monday and said a man was forcing his way into her apartment. When officers went inside, they found something that made them concerned enough to call the bomb squad.
The police found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher, which is capable of shooting a missile almost 1,000 feet through tanks and buildings. Oscar Saldivar of Top Brass Military and Tactical said that it grants infantrymen the benefit with a light-weight weapon that can easily stop armored vehicles along with primary battle tanks and fortifications.
The woman told the police that the rocket launcher was owned by Nabilaye I. Yansane, a man whom she had permitted to keep items at her home. Yansane has been arrested for criminal trespassing, and was jailed for three days.
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