Monday, May 6, 2019

AMERICA'S BORDERS UNDER ASSAULT - MEX CARTELS FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF PRISON



Mexican Cartels Fight for Control of Border State Prison



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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Two main factions of the hyper-violent Los Zetas cartel are once again fighting for control of the state prison in this city. Despite government crackdowns, cartel members continue to run various moneymaking operations from inside prison walls making the detention facility a lucrative territory to control.

In the most recent fight, members of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas used shanks and other makeshift weapons to fight against members of the Vieja Escuela faction of Los Zetas and their allies with the Gulf Cartel inside the state prison in Ciudad Victoria. As Breitbart News reported, in previous clashes at this prison have led to the use of firearms by cartel members as well as massive prison escapes.
The fighting began in the morning in Pod 1 where numerous members of the two factions began fighting. Almost immediately, jailers called for help from Tamaulipas state police officers and military forces in case the riot continued to escalate. With the presence of state police, jail guards managed to suppress the riot and moved three injured inmates to the infirmary where they were treated for various slash type wounds. A fourth inmate had to be rushed to a local hospital due to the extent of his injuries.
While authorities did not disclose details of the riot, the violence mimics the ongoing fight for control between the two factions of Los Zetas that is being felt in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila.
As Breitbart News reported in November, members of the CDN in Nuevo Laredo murdered Luis Enrique “El Rex” Reyes, the head of the Vieja Escuela, inside the state prison in that city. Soon after the murder, CDN gunmen stormed a local funeral home and stole his body. The remaining cartel bosses appeared outside of three prisons in Nuevo Leon with multiple cartel banners. CDN gunmen then dumped his head outside of the state prison in Ciudad Victoria with threats to their rivals.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart News traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.  The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “Francisco Morales” from Tamaulipas 



Nogales Border Patrol Confiscates $3.8 Million Worth of Meth, Fentanyl, and Heroin In Four Days



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United States Customs and Border Protection announced earlier this week that since Thursday, April 26 authorities in Nogales, Arizona have confiscated $3.8 million worth of hard drugs including 268 pounds of heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine combined. With these arrests, authorities have stopped nearly $8 million worth of illegal drugs from coming through Nogales in the past three weeks.
CBP's press release says that on three separate stops, agents arrested individuals for trafficking a variety of hard drugs into the United States. One woman had "nearly 90 packages from throughout the woman’s Dodge sedan." Those packages were comprised of 78 pounds of meth, more than 18 pounds of heroin, and more than four pounds of fentanyl. In total, she was transporting $778,000 worth of narcotics. 
Another stop resulted in the arrest of Mexican man and his wife driving an SUV that contained "more than 42 pounds of fentanyl, worth $573,000; nearly 83 pounds of heroin, with an estimated value of $2.2M; and nearly four pounds of meth, worth almost $11,000." 
Finally, at the Dennis DeConcini Crossing, a 26-year-old man was inspected after CBP's canine unit alerted authorities to the presence of drugs in his Sedan. Authorities found 34 pounds of meth, nearly six pounds of fentanyl inside his car.
These three arrests and drug bust occurred within four days of each other. These arrests come just 10 days after Border Patrol Agents made three similar stops resulting in U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers at the Nogales Port of Entry preventing  "five smuggling attempts worth more than $3.8 million" and arresting six people. 

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