Woman caught smuggling $119,912 to Mexico
A 25-year-old Donna woman was caught trying to cross into Mexico with nearly $120,000 under her clothes, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Thursday.
Aurora Garcia was arrested on federal charges of bulk cash smuggling Wednesday after agents at the Hidalgo international bridge pulled aside the taxi she was in and discovered the cash.
Garcia declared $1,000 but gave a negative declaration for currency in excess of $10,000, weapons, or ammunition.
CBP officers said they noticed discrepancies in Garcia’s clothing, which turned out to be bundles of money totaling $119,912.
It is a federal offense not to declare currency valuing $10,000 or more when leaving or entering the United States.
Source: chron.com
Man caught smuggling bullets, vests to Mexico
A Mexican man was caught trying to smuggle 8,700 rounds of ammunition and 10 bulletproof vests from the United States to Mexico, Customs and Border Protection agents said today.
The seizure occurred Thursday at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.
Driver Martin Armando Arredondo Meza, 28, fled from the car he was driving when customs officials began searching it. He tried to run into Mexico but agents and local police caught him.
The ammunition and vests were found in the car trunk.
Arredondo Meza was arrested on federal charges of illegal export of war materials and
Police dumbfounded as serial killer stalks Mexico
This much they know: Someone has been murdering older women in Mexico City, strangling them in their homes, pocketing a keepsake and vanishing into the city's streets.
But investigators do not know whether the killer is a man or a woman, whether there is an accomplice or how the victims are chosen.
After two years and at least 24 unsolved murders, they have one fingerprint that matches partial prints from five other cases, a modus operandi and a police sketch of what appears to be a man made up as a woman.
Investigators pieced together much of
Killings spook Mexico City
This much they know: Someone has been murdering older women in Mexico City, strangling them in their homes, pocketing a keepsake and vanishing into the city's streets.
But investigators do not know whether the killer is a man or a woman, whether there is an accomplice or how the victims are chosen.
After two years and at least 24 unsolved murders, they have one fingerprint that matches partial prints from five other cases, a modus operandi and a police sketch of what appears to be a man made up as a woman.
Investigators pieced together much of the killer's
Missing woman apparently found in Mexico
A young woman from Saudi Arabia who disappeared in St. Paul last week has apparently been found in Tijuana, Mexico. Family members said they had no details of her condition, or how she got to Mexico.
St. Paul police were notified by Mexican officials that they believed Noora Salim, 21, had been found there. They requested that her passport be sent to Mexico.
Salim had come to St. Paul with her parents to settle a younger sister at Macalester College. They were to return to Saudi Arabia Sept. 6, but Salim left a note saying she was
Minneapolis sex criminal deported to Mexico
A convicted kidnapper who sexually attacked a woman in Minneapolis five years ago was deported to Mexico this past week, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Bloomington said today.
Domingo Penaloza-Cabrera, 36, was turned over to Mexican authorities on Wednesday, the office said.
Penaloza-Cabrera was convicted in a Hennepin County District Court in 2001 of kidnapping and attempted first-degree sexual conduct for attacking a woman he met in a Minneapolis nightclub. Instead of taking the woman home, he drover her to the Mississippi River, sexually assaulted her, then beat her with a metal pipe and
Mexico police hunt serial killer
Mexico City police are hunting a serial killer thought to be behind the unusual murders of as many as 15 elderly women.
The suspect - nicknamed "Mataviejitas" or the "Little Old Lady Killer" - is thought to be a man dressed in women's clothes or a well-built woman.
The killer is said to have entered the victims' homes by winning their trust - possibly by posing as a health worker - before beating and strangling them.
The Mexican capital has one of the highest crime rates in the world.
Bizarre coincidence?
Witnesses in the case of
UT student accused in slaying captured near Mexico border
A University of Texas student accused of fatally shooting and stabbing a woman and partially dismembering her body was arrested Tuesday near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Colton Pitonyak, 22, remained jailed in Eagle Pass. He will be sent back to Austin to face a murder charge in the death of 21-year-old Jennifer Cave, of Corpus Christi, said Austin Police Chief Stan Knee. Investigators have not said what motivated the slaying.
U.S. marshals arrested Pitonyak in Eagle Pass after Mexican authorities deported him on an immigration violation, Knee said. Pitonyak apparently fled to Piedras Negras,
Police chase naked driver into Mexico
A naked man driving a Chevrolet S-10 pickup led police on a chase to the international border yesterday before leaving the truck and running into Mexico, where he was caught.
The man was first observed parked in an alleyand exposing himself about 12:15 p.m. near Texas Street in North Park. Responding officers tried to stop the truck, but the driver sped off, San Diego police Sgt. Jim Schorr said.
During a police chase, the driver avoided three spike strips set down on roadways by officers at various locations.
On Interstate 5 at Interstate 905, the man
Coyotes Openly Do Business in Mexico
Sidling up to migrants who arrive at the Tijuana airport and cruising the streets in border towns, coyotes in gold chains and dark sunglasses openly find customers for nightly scrambles across the U.S. border.
Mexicos president offered to crack down on smuggling at a recent summit with President Bush. But close to 100 smuggling gangs are still operating, government officials say, in plain sight of Mexican law enforcement.
While drug smugglers are invisible for the most part, people smugglers are visible, working right in front of authorities, said Tijuana border expert Victor Clark, who has
MEXICO CITY – Federal agents have rescued an American woman kidnapped in Texas and held in northern Mexico, the Attorney General's office said Friday.
Police arrested the woman's captor, Simon Andres Garcia, during the rescue operation late Thursday in the parking lot of a Church's Chicken in Monclova, officials said in a statement. Garcia's nationality was unclear.
The woman, who was in a car with Garcia at the time of the arrest, was able to get the attention of federal authorities, the statement said. She told them she was kidnapped on Aug. 16 in San Antonio, Texas.
Source: Signonsandeigo.com
