PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border city continue to probe a failed kidnapping that turned into a triple murder outside of a local junkyard. While local media have claimed that the murder was a gang hit, the victim’s relatives revealed that the case was something else.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — The Mexican cartel known as Los Zetas has been stockpiling Soviet-era rocket propelled grenades, body armor, assault rifles, and ammunition in this border city.
Narcotraficantes operando en esta ciudad fronteriza escondieron paquetes de droga dentro de bloques de concreto dentro de una de sus casas de seguridad en un intento por burlar a la ley. El intento resulto en fracaso.
Drug smugglers operating in this border city hid bundles of narcotics inside concrete blocks at one of their stash houses in an effort to fool authorities. The effort was not successful.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Un hombre de Texas fue muerto a golpes en esta ciudad fronteriza. La víctima fue golpeada con un tubo en la cabeza hasta que lo mataron dejando su cuerpo junto a su vehículo.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — A Texas man was beaten to death with a lead pipe in this border city. The victim was struck in the head repeatedly until he died; his body was left next to his vehicle.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — At least three passengers were taken off a bus at gunpoint by members of the Los Zetas cartel in this border city’s downtown area. The occurred in front of Mexican law enforcement buildings. The passengers have not been found.
A street dealer tied to the Los Zetas cartel was tortured and executed in the latest wave of violence to reach this border city.
A key leader of the Los Zetas cartel structure in Texas responsible for overseeing cocaine and cash distribution into San Antonio, Houston, and Waco has been sentenced to life in prison.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Despite various seizures made by authorities on the Mexican side of the border, the Los Zetas drug cartel continues to push large quantities of marijuana into Texas.
Authorities in this border city are working to determine if human remains found this week belong to a woman who has been missing for more than two months. In recent weeks Piedras Negras has seen a sharp spike in kidnappings and executions as part of a cartel war for control of the region.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents at the Eagle Pass port of entry stopped the attempted smuggling of a child and seized $1 million in hard narcotics.
Local and National media outlets have all but ignored an RPG attack on a Mexican police headquarters building located just south of the Texas border town of Eagle Pass. This seems to follow a pattern of news outlets ignoring the cartel war occurring just south of the major Texas cities of McAllen and Brownsville.
