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On April 26, 15 gunmen from the Tijuana Cartel were killed in a gunbattle against rivals. [ 16 ] On May 18, In the city of Playas de Rosarito, Baja California , the 28th Infantry Battalion received a tip that men were unloading packages from a boat to three vehicles, immediately the army were dispatched to the area.
This year the number killed in traffic accidents during illegal crossings is about 50." [32] In January 2003, two undocumented immigrant passengers died when their truck crashed on Interstate 8 while fleeing the Border Patrol, after a spike strip punctured a tire. [33] A week after the accident, a third person, Elvia Rumbo Leyva, died in the ...
The U.S. authorities speculated in 2009 that Tijuana's former police boss, Julián Leyzaola, had made agreements with Sánchez Arellano to bring relative peace in Tijuana. [15] With the arrest of El Teo in January 2010, much of his faction was eliminated from the city of Tijuana; some of its remains went off and joined with the Sinaloa Cartel .
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March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in a bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. [ 5 ] April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.
A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the ...
In Mexico, journalists and human rights groups denounce the violence against and killings of reporters. Three have been killed since the beginning of this year. 'Annihilating journalism': Mexican ...
On November 7, 2011, Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, nicknamed El Sillas and La Rueda, was captured by the Mexican Army in the border city of Tijuana. [10] He was the second-in-command in the Tijuana cartel, and considered by Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional as "one of the most violent" drug traffickers in Mexico, responsible for a number of murders. [11]