Pinal County Sheriff: Mexican drug cartels now control parts of Arizona

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Pinal County Sheriff: Mexican drug cartels now control parts of Arizona

Posted: 06/11/2010

Last Updated: 22 hours and 52 minutes ago

By: MaryEllen Resendez

CASA GRANDE, AZ - Two men shot earlier this week could be the result of the ongoing battle between Mexican drug cartels now spilling over deep into Arizona, officials say.

Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico's border to metro Phoenix.

The area , once an area for family hiking and off road vehicles has government signs warning residents of the drug and human smugglers.

Night vision cameras have photographed military armed cartel members delivering drugs to vehicles along Highway 8.

"We are three counties deep. How is it that you see pictures like these, not American with semi and fully automatic rifles. How is that okay?" asked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.

Babeu said he no longer has control over parts of his county.

"We are outgunned, we are out manned and we don't have the resources here locally to fight this," he said at a Friday news conference.

Five weeks ago Deputy Louie Puroll was ambushed and shot as he tracked six drug smugglers.

Sheriff Babeu said the ambush mirrored military tactics.

Even more disturbing, Babeu said the man who called in to 911 operators for help seemed to know a lot about the sheriff deputy's case.

"He told operators they could find him where the deputy was shot and talked about our search helicopter. Things that were talked about on the news," Babeu said.

When operators asked the fatally wounded man how he knew the area, he claimed he sold cantelope near mile post 150.

Both men were found dead several hours later.

Detectives say next to them was a Bushmaster automatic rifle used by police officers for patrolling. It does not appear to be stolen.

Investigators also revealed that an autopsy showed strap marks on one of the men that likely came from hauling heavy loads, they suspect were drugs.

One of the men, deputies say, was voluntarily deported seven times.

Babeu said he doesn't believe the drug cartel problems will not be solved when SB 1070 becomes a law, or with President Obama's promise of 1,200 troops spread out among four border states.

"It will fall short. What is truly needed in 3,000 soldiers for Arizona alone," Babeu said.

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/other/mexican-drug-cartels-now-control-parts-of-arizona

[Heracles 417]

As long as they are not profiling, all is good.

Am I right open-border / you hate brown people clowns or what?

[Niels Bohr 72]

What about white people? They consume drugs too, or, are they just too much of a saint?

[Heracles 417]

What about white people? They consume drugs too, or, are they just too much of a saint?

You must have missed the Mexican, as in from Mexico, part.

[Fandango 1,439]

Give them a break! They're only pushing the drugs that Americans don't wanna push!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

So what exactly is the plan to reduce the demand for drugs in the USA? I thought the so-called "war on drugs" has been a farce.

[peejay 327]

So what exactly is the plan to reduce the demand for drugs in the USA? I thought the so-called "war on drugs" has been a farce.

Whether you or anyone else thinks the war on narcotics is a joke, it is not in the national interest to have an unsecure border where heavily armed foreigners can come and go at will inside the interior of the USA.

I recently saw some fresh video taken in Arizona of Mexican dope smugglers armed with machine guns escorting dope caravans. Lots of video of caravans of illegal alien smuggling too. And it was private citizens that put up the hidden cameras along this smuggler's highway in the boonies. Does the public know more about what is going on than the clowns in Washington?

Obama and Napolitano assure us that the border is as secure as it ever has been. Are they babbling bullshit or what?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Whether you or anyone else thinks the war on narcotics is a joke, it is not in the national interest to have an unsecure border where heavily armed foreigners can come and go at will inside the interior of the USA.

I recently saw some fresh video taken in Arizona of Mexican dope smugglers armed with machine guns escorting dope caravans. Lots of video of caravans of illegal alien smuggling too. And it was private citizens that put up the hidden cameras along this smuggler's highway in the boonies. Does the public know more about what is going on than the clowns in Washington?

Obama and Napolitano assure us that the border is as secure as it ever has been. Are they babbling bullshit or what?

So besides the usual round of rhetoric what have you got?

[Heracles 417]

So besides the usual round of rhetoric what have you got?

Evidently more than you. How about you go purchase property and live along the border? Then come on here and report back to us. You know, actually walk the talk for a change.

Personally, I don't need to piss on an electric fence to know it will zap me; you clearly do, otherwise you simply refuse to believe it.

Edited June 15, 2010 by Booyah!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Evidently more than you. How about you go purchase property and live along the border? Then come on here and report back to us. You know, actually walk the talk for a change.

Seriously, all this guy does is ###### and moan about illegal immigration - its the only topic he's interested in; and he has nothing to say except the same thing over and over and over again; and little of it relates to anything actually specific or tangible.

Here in this thread - he has nothing more to bring to the table than rhetoric to counter the rhetoric put out by the Obama administration. What an utter waste of time.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Whether you or anyone else thinks the war on narcotics is a joke, it is not in the national interest to have an unsecure border where heavily armed foreigners can come and go at will inside the interior of the USA.

I recently saw some fresh video taken in Arizona of Mexican dope smugglers armed with machine guns escorting dope caravans. Lots of video of caravans of illegal alien smuggling too. And it was private citizens that put up the hidden cameras along this smuggler's highway in the boonies. Does the public know more about what is going on than the clowns in Washington?

Obama and Napolitano assure us that the border is as secure as it ever has been. Are they babbling bullshit or what?

Are you in favor of tighter regulations of gun sales?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Personally, I don't need to piss on an electric fence to know it will zap me; you clearly do, otherwise you simply refuse to believe it.

Hold your horses there chief. All I have said (the only thing I have said) in this thread is that a cross country border fence seems to me to be a spectacularly gigantic waste of public money.

Illegal immigration has to be tackled at the employer level to remove the incentive for people to migrate. We (most of us anyway) agree on this. Will the government do anything substantive to address this issue? So far (and on the evidence of previous administrations) I'd have to say "no".

The fact that drug cartels operate within the USA has a lot to do with the demand for illicit substances in the USA. Now if the US Government legalised those substances and taxed them - it would remove a lot of demand for the black market that currently supplies them (and the black market that supplies guns from the USA to Mexico). Will the government do anything substantive to address this issue? So far (and on the evidence of previous administrations) I'd have to say "no".

Edited June 15, 2010 by Its a MADHOUSE

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Hold your horses there chief. All I have said (the only thing I have said) in this thread is that a cross country border fence seems to me to be a spectacularly gigantic waste of public money.

Illegal immigration has to be tackled at the employer level to remove the incentive for people to migrate. We (most of us anyway) agree on this. Will the government do anything substantive to address this issue? So far (and on the evidence of previous administrations) I'd have to say "no".

The fact that drug cartels operate within the USA has a lot to do with the demand for illicit substances in the USA. Now if the US Government legalised those substances and taxed them - it would remove a lot of demand for the black market that currently supplies them (and the black market that supplies guns from the USA to Mexico). Will the government do anything substantive to address this issue? So far (and on the evidence of previous administrations) I'd have to say "no".

Watch BY bring out the guns...

I am NOT trying to end the debate here as prviously accused, but damn, some people have to realize that illegal immigration is a small problem compared with the whole list of issues that the American people face. Guns, drugs, lack of interest for jobs that are not worthy of them, etc, etc, etc...

[Heracles 417]

Watch BY bring out the guns...

I am NOT trying to end the debate here as prviously accused, but damn, some people have to realize that illegal immigration is a small problem compared with the whole list of issues that the American people face. Guns, drugs, lack of interest for jobs that are not worthy of them, etc, etc, etc...

Interesting since 50% of gang bangers in the US are Latin American.

[Ban Hammer 12,839]

Are you in favor of tighter regulations of gun sales?

have you tried to buy a machine gun lately?