Borderland Beat posted by Pepe
A
Brownsville resident is dead after a group of armed men kidnapped him, along
with another victim in Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas.
Cameron
County Sheriff Omar Lucio said Eric Candanosa and Carlos Vela Moreno were
driving Wednesday evening along a highway in Tamaulipas. The men were transporting two vehicles into Matamoros on an expressway between
Matamoros and Progreso when Candanosa’s vehicle overheated, causing him to pull
over. Both men parked their vehicles on the side of the road.
At
this time, a group of six or seven armed men in two vehicles approached the
pair and kidnapped both the Brownsville residents.
According
to the Sheriff’s Department, one of the armed men said, “This is the guy,”
referring to 38-year-old Candanosa.
Moreno
explained that the armed group that took them to a secluded wooded area and
beat the men, with Candanosa receiving a far more severe beating. He was beaten by a 2X4 until he was
unconscious.
According
to the Sheriff, the two men were released by their captors, the same day in
Nuevo Progreso, being abandoned in an unpopulated area. Moreno took Candanosa to a hospital in the town of Rio Bravo, where
he requested that they be transferred to
a hospital on the American side.
Since
both men are United States citizens a Mexican ambulance transferred the men to
the Los Indios Bridge to meet with paramedics from the U.S.
At 8:30 Wednesday, they arrived in an
ambulance at Indios bridge border crossing, with the intention of being treated
at a hospital in Harlingen Texas. But at
the bridge, it was determined Candanosa
had no vital signs.
The
Cameron County Sheriff’s Office was called to the bridge around 8:30 p.m. in
reference to the assault.
Sheriff
Lucio confirmed that Candanosa was dead by the time he arrived at the bridge.
Moreno
told the sheriff’s department that he did not know why the group of armed men
kidnapped them.
An
autopsy, ordered by Judge Eloy Cano, will be performed Thursday.
Sources
that contributed to the writing of this post: Brownsville Herald, El Norte, Lasillarota
Sounds to me like Carlos Vela Moreno set him up...
ReplyDeleteAfter what I read, I thought the same thing... The streets bruh
DeleteYeah that what it seems like......
Delete10:05pm your conspiracy theory...
ReplyDeleteSounds about right, dirty harry would say the same, same same, same...
The once called safest place to go shopping for medication and good is now as dangerous as any other city. Not even the winter texans are going down to progresso now.
ReplyDeletePure speculation. There are many fact patterns that could explain this incident including mistaken identity.
ReplyDeleteSept 26, 6:38am
Delete"Fact patterns"?
How? It was candanosa vehicle overheating and pulling over not his, your probably a big idiot. And tamaulipas is the place where rata.zetas and rata.golfo fight each to death over territories
ReplyDeleteso whats going to happen now with this.im with the ideal of shut the border till some thing is done people cant even go over there so why should they be able to come to the usa
ReplyDelete10:39 -Not shutting it down because they can't do that for bunch of diff reasons, but at least have the total control of our texas border side because the mexican side wont do anything to stop those criminals from getting into the north-american side.
DeleteThey had a money clavo in the truck. I'm calling this a fund interception.
ReplyDeleteThose rats were citizens!
ReplyDeleteI used to go to the dentist in Nuevo Progreso a couple of years ago and everything was laid back and cool. I guess I can't go back there.
ReplyDeleteWhat did they do prior to the overheating?
ReplyDeleteask carlos vela moreno
Deleteu know Miguel Garcia is with Yarrington
ReplyDeleteHow come the U.S. helps white people in the middle east and not u.s. Mexican citizens?
ReplyDeleteIt didn't actually happen in Nuevo Progreso. It happened outside of town on the highway.
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