“One of my concerns about the violence is the fact that may spill over to this big metropolitan area of Phoenix and other places”
The search continued
for several suspects who shot and killed two men and wounded two others in a
gun battle six miles east of Gila Bend.
The shootings occurred
a high-traffic corridor known for human and drug smuggling.
The bodies of the two
men were found by Maricopa County sheriff's investigators in a cave about six
miles east of Gila Bend Monday afternoon. Two other men who were seriously hurt
were airlifted to the West Valley Hospital in Goodyear.
“We're hoping one will
be able to talk and give us more information,” Maricopa County Sheriff Joe
Arpaio said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
The names and ages of
the dead and wounded were not released.
Semi-automatic weapons
and other evidence found in the cave were seized.
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| The hot dry elements of the Az desert, traffickers of humans and drugs, La Migra hunting down migrants,all make success unlikely for undocumented migrants crossing the rugged desert. The crosses above, were made by inmates of tent city and represent the bodies of migrants discovered |
One of the wounded men
called 911 around 12:30 p.m. Monday reporting he and three others had been
shot, according to Arpaio. The caller said the incident had occurred one hour
earlier and it was unclear why he had delayed calling.
Arpaio said sheriff's
SWAT officers located the area and set up a perimeter to protect the
investigators from any threat. No suspects were located.
“We have an intensive
investigation going on to identify the shooters,” Arpaio said.
A number of bales of
marijuana were found in the area but they've not been linked to the shooting
scene.
“One of my concerns
about the violence is the fact that may spill over to this big metropolitan
area of Phoenix and other places,” Arpaio said.
Last week, MCSO, working
with border patrol agents, made three significant seizures of drugs near Gila
Bend. A total of 12 people were arrested and more than $500,000 worth of drugs
were seized.
Drug use is a victimless crime.
ReplyDeleteIt is if it were made legal. The government and the laws they create are causing the problem. Open your mind and look at the picture. We are the largest consumer of illegal drugs in the world, but we blame others for our addiction problem.
DeleteBut why you say we i do not use any kind of drugs. And drug use is not a victimless crime.
DeleteYes
DeleteIt is a "WE" because the drug traffickers, the users, the addicts, and the money launderers hide in our midst, and we work on their corporations, and our US government feeds them their Corporate Welfare Queens' funds and tax breaks, by the billions of dollars every month...
DeleteThe government of the people
By the government,
For the rich.
It is what it is nowadays, the plain truth, not trying to offend anyone...
But if anyone feels offended, I DO NOT CARE...
If this is a high traffic corridor then why aren't National Guard troops or military set up in the area on a quasi permanent basis. It seems everyone knows this is a HIDTA even the traffickers but it seems the vast majority of drugs or humans smuggled make it safely across the border and well into the US without fear of detection or apprehension. Even the cartel "advance party" lookouts seemingly for the majority go undetected. I would have to say for the better part of reasoning that probably more then 80% of product (drugs or whatever) reach and enter the USA safely with absolutely no seizures or apprehensions. We need troops in these HIDTA corridors to effectively reduce what is entering our country. IMO
ReplyDeleteGood luck convincing Congress on where your tax $ are supposed to be spent.
Deletehey dummy, maybe because the US Govt wants "some" flow of drugs to enter the US? What woukd happen to lawyers, cops, social services, priscons, Mexican demand of weapons? It's an economy buddy. And where the hell do you come up with the 80%??? What type of expert are you???
DeleteWhy would you never think the US really would ever really want to solve this. Everyone, makes too much money off of this trade from the Sheriffs dept, to the courts, the lawyers, to the private prisons. Your hoping the people who profit from it will also cut the head off the golden goose. Dream on.
DeleteBecause the government, both American and Mexican, just pretend to do something about it. There is too much money to loose if the flow of guns, drugs and people stop.
DeleteThat would be a good idea but they would not. Not because they dont have money or the man power they just would not supply and demand it is like the drug houses some been operating selling drugs for years i know one that has been running for 10 or more police know selling 24/7 and nothing has ever happened to them some last months or years while they "invistigate"
DeleteFor this guy at 9:30am. Why don't you go yourself and set a perimeter in the desert. Do something instead of complaining about it
DeleteSorry to burst your bubble! but the US govt is never going to stop this diamond mine (if you did not now this already). Hears a small list of some who profit:
DeleteUS govt,MX govt,
DEA,
FBI,
Banks,
Swat,
Sheriff's,
local police,
bail bond places,
lawyers,
DA,
courts,
state prisons,county jails,private prisons,
Owners of la bestia (train called the beast)which has US,MX owners. Also sorry but local so called hero Joe Arapio is not going to do nothing he is on his way out.
@12:40 amen I was just arguing this to the p.o in alcohol saftey school
DeleteLike I said as I posted, IMO. It was my opinion I just voiced it. thanks for your responses it was both pos and neg....it was only as I said IMO, but I kind of already knew what the responses would be. I know of the corruption and national promises aka guarantees, but there has to be some sort of hope along the line. I am not angry at the responses, I understand how others think and how "corporations" work. i just wish things could be logically understood except for monetary gain. Thx, but still hopeful in Memphis.
DeleteDrugs, human smuggling, and weapons : CAN'T STOP WON'T FUCKING STOP.
Deleteand forget about the trades. When those institutions are built they aren't made of fairy dust they use: cement, fiber optics, plumeria, electricity. My point is there are many industries that depend on the War on Drugs that are not immediately apparent- they exist on the periphery
DeleteEsta obvio que para el $ siempre abra gente para incar se le.
ReplyDeleteIf US law enforcement can go into Mexico why shouldn't Mexican criminals come into the US?
ReplyDeleteIs this really a question?
DeleteThey do.
Delete10:02am go back to sleep
DeleteNow there's some logic for ya! LMAO
DeleteI'm from Phoenix and I doubt two drug trafficking groups confronted each other down there in Gila Bend, it is known here that armed groups unrelated to cartels stalk drug mules and rob them, this sounds like a botched robbery though, just speculating here.
ReplyDeleteWho are those that are unrelated to cartels sorry im just curious
DeleteHe's right I'm from South Phoenix and I know a couple ppl Unrelated to cartels who make a pretty good living off of robbing alleged cartel members
DeleteWould "...unrelated to cartels..." be 'garden variety thugs'? Howabout, 'fair weather predators'? Sounds like a case of 'shoot'n dope and skip'n rope in sunny Gila Bend. Possibly the secretive Gila Bend Bloods or the lowlife Gila Bend Gila Monsters. K.O.
DeleteAt 12:50 we call them bajadores, or jackers in English.
DeleteThey are just fools looking for a quick come up, but they don't last once the cartels or who ever owns the load figure out who they are they get buried in the desert.
Bajadores lacraz is the word dedicated to steeling from the cartel but drug mules now carry guns to defend the drugs In my opinion that's what happened an attempt to Jack the load went wrong
DeleteThat's what happened,buried in the desert?Dont they call robbing drug traffikers "Tumledores'? think that's what theyre called in Central America and they are guys that's all they do.Can you imagine the BIG weight that's moved through there?
DeleteTumbar means bringing bringing something down, and bajadores, bring down you and your load of whatever...
Delete--It is like sheriff Arpaio the white apache, he tumba mojados, he les tumba sus drogas, and then les tumba trabajo for free in the prison industries, where the mexican criminals work for free, and no cervezas!!!
--mas bajados ni los calzones...
Aqui no pasa nada
ReplyDeleteI would love to see a shoot out between swat and these guys obiously swat is better trained then them but again swat is used to going in to action with guys shooting at them with 9's 40's (or nothing at all for that matter) im sure it wouldnt be the same as getting shot with AKs.
ReplyDeleteStop living in a fantasy bro
DeleteA lot of S.W.A.T guys are military trained and have seen combat.
DeleteA lot of military personal returns home traumatized.
DeleteOne of the biggest problems with the current US Police force, too many former military. Policing the local towns isn't war. You don't kill and ask questions later. Remember to old saying to protect & SERVE. I want cops not military headcases.
DeleteThe Police Serve and Protect.
Delete--It is certainly a fact that they serve and protect themselves and their own first and foremost, not aaall of them, but the great majority, like 99.1%...
--Also profiting from the sacrifices and heroism of officers like those who died on 9/11 has become part of their bargaining chip to become more of a militarized Shock and Awe repressive and murdering force that amerikkkan governments use against their own subdits, because dogs have become real expensive...
Arizona will be safe. No need to panic. Our lawmen wont let these chumps take over or let the violence spill. Arpaio might call the National Guard
ReplyDeleteThen why is phoniex full of beltran leyvas
DeleteWith Sheriff Joe in charge, No One Is Safe.
Deletewhy is pheonix full of beltran leyvas? i thought mayo and chapo had the sonora border on lock?
DeleteSheriff Joe is the main " boss" white racist fucks made him untouchable. know he is finally going to court after he talked trash to Obama, now he is being questioned by FBI, but just like Mexican government, he will walk free. Make a story about this corrupt sheriff, who makes his own rules. Technically, it falls under borderland beat, Maricopa county is only abour 3 hours drive from the mex border.
Deletewhy is pheonix full of beltran leyvas? i thought mayo and chapo had the sonora border on lock?
DeleteThey should call down the national guard, but to take down that piece of crap, scumbag, Hitler reincarnation named Joe Arpaio.
Delete1:40 and 1:53 the wars are on the Mexican side of the border, here in the states there is plenty to go around for both cartels.
DeleteYou have to remember that they were together before and some are even family members and neighbors back in Sinaloa and Sonora, I have cousin who are all CDS and others who are Beltranes. Here they are cool but when back in Mexico it's on.
I know there is a cartel leader raising hell now. One thing they don't want is episodes like this. It turns up the heat on their operations. This may die down but the US won't let this continuously happen. Whoever committed these murders will never be found. Just like the ones that killed the jet skier from McAllen Tx. This is bad for business like they say in the movie "The Arroyo."
ReplyDeleteThere is allready violence in U.S but they don't report most of it. I know someone who works in the casino in Arizona and they told me they find dead bodiesin the parking, sometimes decapitated but they don't see it on media or newspapers. I think because casinos pay good money to government and they don't care what happens as long as they get money.
ReplyDeleteYea right. Meanwhile drug loads go through.
ReplyDeleteKarma:
ReplyDeleteBaltimore, Chicago, Ferguson, terrorism, ISIS, Russia, Iran, Irak, Vietnam, Korea, now Arizona.
We are the largest arms supplier in the world, the only one who has used nukes on civilians and the one who - in war - took half of Mexico's territory.
Violence returns to were it was born.
What the hell are you talking about? Do you have any idea of the background and history of all you mention?
DeleteOr from other perspective : USA rules the world, like it or not.
DeleteTrue all out so called enemies terrorrist or extreme groups that hate us bomb us or want to do something my country usa trained them gave them millions and weapons
DeleteYou are a moron, we nuked Japan to end the War. With out that millions of people would have died. The hidalgo treaty expanded the US to the west and they got paid,not stolen.all those American cuties you mentioned have a high crime rate and low unemployment. There would be no problem if their communities stop selling drug s and commuting crime.
DeletePlease do your homework on Japan and the nukes.
Delete3:23 You really are brainwashed. Only one country in the history of mankind has killed 100,000's people with one bomb, Men, Women, Children, Old People and Young Babies, Dogs, Cats and anything else living in the area. Not once but two times. If we do it, it's justified. If we think someone else might have a capacity to do it, they are evil with weapons of mass destruction. The United States is the glorious goodness you are brainwashed to think. Ever wonder why most of the world hates us? We are a dying nation. In twenty years when the Koch Brothers and big business have bought our government will have a government just like Mexico has now. A Nation of Sheep will have a Government of Wolves.
DeleteCjng taking over
ReplyDeleteI live in phoenix & the drug violence has already spilled over . I know from personal experience.
ReplyDeleteviolance is everywhere
DeleteWell said @12:48
ReplyDeleteTucson and Phoenix is where beltran leyva cartel operates big time and CDS they have a truce though .
ReplyDeleteWhere are the minutemen??? is time to take actions....
ReplyDeleteMinuteman like you that hate your own country and people just because you have a visa or green card it still does not make you a gringo
DeleteIt was sarcasm brou, I am 200% Mexican..
DeleteThis is joe arpaio's scheme to get himself back in the spotlight, what a total fkn loser..time to retire joe.we dont like you never have and never will!!.
ReplyDeleteand for everyone like you their is one like me who thinks what the usa needs is more men like arpio.
DeleteMe too 10:53! We need more men to step up and do what needs to be done. The folks who hate Joe are probably criminals who dont like the taste of the medicine he is is giving them.
DeleteI use to live in Az and had a friend who had family in Douglas. You could see Mexico from her backyard. Az already has enough crazy folks running around. Both citizens and non citizens. They really don't need anymore. I jetted out of that place. Moved there in 2008 and was out in 2012. Never looked back. They had a bad bath salt epidemic with people dancing nude on cars on highways. They had a decapitation in Chandler while I was there and the 49 immigrants laid at the border dead. Yet you talk to anyone in Az and they know nothing about any of this. People lurking in dark places because it is warm enough to do so. That place in itself is crazy. It doesn't need this. I will say, they will make sure this isn't a constant occurrence/ Those folks have plenty of guns there. Way too much crime there for me. I was in Scottsdale and Mesa.
ReplyDeleteGila bend is a couple hours away from Phoenix these mules are from San luis rio Colorado that is close last time they found two burn bodies inside a white Tahoe couple years ago it ain't nothing new gila bend Welton date land they always finding weed or immigrants crossing threw there is really close to Yuma which is the border town between los algodones Baja california and San luis rio Colorado sonora n believe me they weren't trying to get rob two groups just went at it they bump into each others they always do in the Mexican side
ReplyDeleteFuck arpaio And u damn minute men az 602
ReplyDeleteWe, got a tent waiting for you and pink outfits to work in.
DeleteThe drug violence is waaaaay past phoenix.... Just look at Chicago... NONE of that heroin was grown in the united States... And you're worried about Phoenix? There is plenty of crime here, you just don't hear about it because if you come here causing problems, no one is going to miss your ass!
ReplyDeleteim from chicago wtf are u talking about no tengas miedo no pasa nada
DeleteHeroin does not come from Afghanistan to mexico, does it?
DeleteDon Mencho expanding his territories
ReplyDeleteGila Bend is not quite an hour down the road from where I live (Yuma). All I gotta say is "Keep your guns loaded, and close at hand". Not that I haven't already (and always have) had that policy for myself . . . Just saying, keep yourself protected and keep your head on a swivel if you live near the Mexico border!
ReplyDeleteFunny how Phoenix is the drug capital of the United states but Here in AZ sheriff joe takes more heat than the cartels do lol CDS & BLO must be doing something right on this side of the border can't say the same for Mexican side tho. CDS & BLO work with each other here in Arizona because of all the bajadores here. But that's what comes with business. Un saludo a Los que compran la banda por toda la noche quando voy a vuelve la vida a comer mariscos lol you the real mvp pinches narcos ajajjaj
ReplyDeleteLol arizona ain't the drug capital
DeleteLol, is not the capital, is the kingdom..
DeleteLol fr though every marisco place in Phx is always full of narcos.
Delete4:03 check the statistics phx is the biggest drug hub in the us. There is documentaries on it.
Delete8:45pm I know hahah always doing it big
I lived in AZ for a year. 80's. It was a year too long. Nothing there but old people going there to die like a migration to the elephant graveyard. Believe it or not, there weren't a lot of Mexicans around back then. It was mostly actual Spaniards and Portuguese families.
ReplyDelete6:50pm
DeleteThere is no such thing as an elephant graveyard, it's a myth.
-Junius