Mexican Army raids cartel camp in Guerrero ( Video ), with more arrests

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Sinembargo article

Subject Matter: Raid of a cartel camp
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In a video from the United States site Breibart News, it shows soldiers of the Mexican army and Police forces searching for and piling up weapons that could have been used during the attack against Municipal police on 17th of April

Reporter: Sinembargo Redaction
The State of Guerrero Attorney General informed of a special operation that has been implemented to find those responsible for the recent assassination of 6 State Police, in coordination with elements of Special Forces of the Secretary of Public Security and personnel of the Mexican Army assigned to the 27th Military Zone.

They continue patrolling around the location of the site of the ambush near the community of El Naranjo, Zihuatenejo, where they arrested 4 persons, two male, two female, pertinent to a criminal group.


In a video from the USA web site Breibart News, it shows soldiers of the Mexican Army and Police Forces searching for and piling arms that could have been utilized during the attack against the Municipal Police on this past 17th of April

During the capture they confiscated 4 vehicles reported as stolen, 3 rifles of large caliber considered to be for the exclusive use of the armed forces ( Otis: there appears to be 7 rifles in the video not three ), 100 doses of a herb with the characteristics of marijuana in transparent plastic bags, 100 doses of a drug known as crystal in transparent plastic bags, 3 portable radios, 2 bullet proof jackets with plates that correspond to those take from State Police who lost their lives in the ambush.

The women detained were named as Mirta Garcia N, 27 years of age, originally from Zihuatanejo; Maria Isabel N, 27 years of age, originally from the Erendira community, Buena Vista, Michoacan; Lucero N, 29 years of age, also originally from the Erendira community, Buena Vista, Michoacan; and Mariana M, 31 years of age, also from the Erendira community, Buena Vista, Michoacan.

The women were captured on the Mas Mesillas - El Naranjo road, when they were travelling aboard a Ford Lobo pickup, which the Police and Army elements intercepted.

When questioned, the women said that they came from the community of El Naranjo, and that they had gone to leave food for several men, who had participated in the ambush against the uniformed people last week.

When arriving at the designated place and after a chase, the Police and Army forces arrested Luis Eduardo "N", 17 years old, originally from Zihuatanejo, and Ernesto Margarito "N",
18 years old, also from the same locality.

Also reported by Sinembargo
Guerrero Authorities Located Truck used in Police Ambush

In two separate events, coordinated forces in the state of Guerrero detained six people and confiscated three trucks, one of which was used in the ambush of police officers last Tuesday.

The detainees were placed at the disposal of the authorities. Inside one of the vans were found personal documents of the executed agents, a vest of one of the policemen and the ballistic panel of another.

State police, in coordination with the Army, the Special Forces Unit (UFE) and the Ministerial Police, detained four women in two different incidents in Zihuatanejo , a minor and a man, and they found three vans, one of them used in the ambush on Tuesday and inside which there was equipment and documents of the assassinated agents.


In a file of the state Secretariat of Public Safety it is detailed that at 9 o'clock on Friday night in the section Las Mesillas-El Naranjo was stopped a Ford Lobo truck reported as stolen in which four women were traveling, which they searched after seeing that they carried radios and in the inspection they found un-fired cartridges, presumed drugs and a uniform military type

The report indicates that the detainees, between 27 and 31 years of age, stated that they had gone to leave food to men who were in the El Naranjo community, whom they identified as ambush participants to the police.


The UFE moved to this community and found several men in three vans, who upon seeing the agents fled and in a pursuit arrested a 17-year-old boy with an AK-47 rifle, a loaded and cartridges, and another 18 years with a .308-millimeter rifle, cartridges, weapon magazines.

The report indicates that the detainees were made available along with one of the three vans that the men left in the town, which is said to have participated in the ambush and inside which they found personal documents of the agents, a vest of one of the cops and the ballistic panel of another.