Criminals install fake checkpoint to rob motorists in Tamaulipas

The armed group forced motorists to pull over so that they could review their belongings and strip them of their personal possessions.

At least eight suspected criminals installed a fake checkpoint to rob all motorists and tractor trailer drivers that were traveling along the highway in Reynosa, Tamaulipas.

The armed group pulled over a four-door truck and forced motorists of the Tamaulipas highway to review their belongings and deprived them of money, jewelry and everything that was of value.

The members of organized crime were standing in the middle of the road, and every vehicle that passed through the area was subject to a review. But the main objective of these criminals were the truck drivers.

At the time of forcing a driver for an inspection, the thugs identified themselves as members of the Reynosa Group, belonging to the Gulf Cartel. While wielding their assault rifles to intimidate the drivers, who had to hand over all their belongings.

The checkpoint was installed by the Gulf Cartel cell on the Viaduct, which is a toll road that runs from Reynosa to Matamoros and vice versa, where robberies are commonly committed in the absence of surveillance by the Federal Police and the State Police from Tamaulipas.

In addition, the Viaduct is known as a war zone, where there have been many confrontations between members of the Gulf Cartel and State Police elements.

It is common that in that road section people appear executed, because it is territory dominated by the aforementioned cartel, who, apart from confronting the police, now are dedicated to assaulting drivers and drivers of privately owned vehicles.

The fact was made known through a video broadcast on Twitter and in which “The facts speak in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, where there is zero percent security for the highway robberies that joins the three following municipalities of San Fernando Reynosa and Matamoros

Video translation is as follows:

Driver: Excuse me?

Sicario #1: Lets see. Open your wallet, let me check your wallet. 

Your pockets. Let me see what all is in your pockets. 

Driver: Brother, I don’t have anything. 

Sicario #1: What about your back pockets old man? Give me that cell phone. 

Sicario #2: Give me that watch. Come on take it off. 

Driver: Give me a chance to take it off. 

Sicario #1: You don’t have a cell phone? What do you have over there? Let me see!

Driver: Brother, that’s just medicines. 

Sicario #1: Whats in that suitcase? What do you have here?

Sicario #2: Lets fucking go already. 

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