Six Mexican Border State Cops Face Kidnapping Charges in Mexico
Six state police officers from the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas remain jailed after a judge formally charged them with aggravated kidnapping.

Six state police officers from the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas remain jailed after a judge formally charged them with aggravated kidnapping.

A group of gunmen ambushed and killed five state police officers in the southern state of Oaxaca. Two other officers sustained serious gunshot wounds during the attack.

Mexican authorities announced the arrest of a U.S. citizen suspected of murdering his parents and then fleeing to Mexico to avoid capture. The suspect is the son of former NFL player Barry Bennett.

Un policía estatal pago con su vida el negarse a cometer un asalto y la violación de una mujer a petición de un amigo, otro oficial de la llamada “Fuerza Civil”, que se enfureció y le disparo en el pecho, cuando ambos se encontraban fuera de servicio en el suburbio de Apodaca.

A state police officer reportedly gunned down a fellow cop for refusing to rob and rape a woman in this border state. The murder suspect lashed out in anger at the refusal by his partner to carry out the crime in the suburb of Apodaca.

Rising tensions exploded in Mexico when hundreds of protesting teachers clashed with police officers after days of protests. The raging violence has resulted so far in six deaths, dozens of injuries, and scores of arrests.

The latest in a long series of sophisticated cross-border smuggling tunnels has been discovered and seized in Tijuana, Mexico. Mexican police found the sub-surface project on Tuesday in a house adjacent to the Tijuana airport. Though it measured more than 500 feet long, it was still short of the US border.

Parents and fellow students of 43 missing Mexican students plan to cross into the United States to protest questionable assertions of Mexican government officials regarding the sequence of events that those officials say led to the death and burning of the students last September. The protests are planned to hit 45 American cities in late March.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The ever worsening security situation in Mexico has led to a new mode of transportation for Mexican tourists that includes traveling in a convoy with police escorts at speeds of 100 miles an hour or more — all in an effort to avoid getting carjacked by drug cartels on their journey to the U.S. border.

MCALLEN, Texas — A Mexican border teenager is accused of luring a pregnant woman on Facebook for the purposes of murdering her and cutting open her midsection to remove the unborn baby.
