US Deputy Marshall Vincent Bustamante Found Dead in Juarez

US marshal accused of stealing government property has been shot dead execution-style in the lawless Mexican border town of Juarez in the latest murder along the violence-gripped Rio Grande frontier.

The body of Deputy Marshal Vincent Bustamante was found with multiple gun wounds to the back of his head, according to Chihuahua state police

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Juarez Peolice Chief Resigned

SAN DIEGO—Tijuana, Mexico, March 2009: Joggers discovered the headless bodies of three men near a bullfight ring. The corpses were also missing their hands, and one its feet. Nearby, authorities found the men's heads, along with a message from drug traffickers calling them "snitches." The area where all the body parts were found is a $10 cab ride from San Diego, Calif.

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, February 2009: Chief of Police Roberto Orduña Cruz stepped down after drug cartel bosses made good on a threat to kill one of his officers every 48 hours until he resigned. Cartel assassins killed six officers before Orduña relented. That brought to about 200 the number of people killed in the month of February in Juarez, just two miles south of El Paso, Texas.

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Decapitatin Becoming A Trademark in Juarez

They have decapitated 10 so far this year”“Decapitation is a practice that is becoming a recurring one among battling members of organized crime. At least in this city and the Juarez Valley there have been 10 cases from January to date, where, besides the separation of the cephalic extremity, the aggressors place warning messages on the human remains.” * Eighty-seven members of city, state and federal law enforcement agencies have been assassinated in the Juarez area since January 2008 to date. Forty-two of those victims, almost half, were city police officers. The tally for 2008 was 71, while so far this year the number has reached 16.

l Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) via

Drug War 31 Killed In Ciudad Juarez in the Last 72 hours

The death tally in Juarez and its neighboring lower valley area is setting new records: up until Tuesday afternoon (3rd) there have already been 31 homicides in 72 hours. Last year the total for the entire month of February reached 46.

Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 2/4/09

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Sinaloa Cartel Crime Report - Juarez

The following is un unverified blog posting from a new blogger named Garnica, which began less than amonth ago. The text is in poor English, and may be a fake, but it reports on aleged Drug Cartel Crime in Mexico.

-Federico Gochoa

A gang laid the severed head of a local police chief before the office door of a building - apparently a warning to the authorities.

Ciudad Juárez - Officers in the town of Praxedis Nord on Monday found the severed head of a policeman in a "coolbox?"

The chief investigator was on Saturday just five days after his inauguration, together with five other officers and civilians have been abducted.

• Two days later, on the edge of a street in the provincial capital of Chihuahua six corpses in police uniform with torture marks and bullet wounds were found.
• A judiciary spokesman asserted that the gruesome findins are a message from the infamous Sinaloa cartel.
• In a further attack by drug gangs in the border city of Ciudad Juárez on Monday killed four men.
• Six other bodies, including one woman, according to police, were found in several cities of the State of Chihuahua found.

Posted Garnica at 12:45 PM

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