After nearly three weeks of denials, the Laredo Police Department has confirmed there was a Zeta cartel incident and that the police blotter is authentic. Naturally this begs the question as to why law enforcement continued to deny the event.
There are still many questions left to be answered and more details will be forthcoming from this reporter. (Not Blogger).
The problem with this new story out of Laredo is it still doesn't match confidential law enforcement sources in the area who witnessed the incident first hand near Minerales Annex Rd. They say there was a surveillance at the ranch and it lasted more than one day.
There is much more to the story and that the Laredo Mayor and local law enforcement still haven’t released to the public. Hopefully investigative journalists in the area will keep digging for the full truth about the Zeta incident and why it was covered up and is still being covered up, according to sources in Laredo.
For now here are excerpts from Laredo news station KRGV ABC who confirmed additional details;
“NORTH OF LAREDO - FM 1472 in Webb County, known as Mines Road, is at the center of an Internet firestorm. Bloggers are posting articles claiming members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas seized at least one ranch in an area northwest of Laredo last month.
"It was just one of many unconfirmed rumors and threats that we get here on a daily basis," said Laredo Police Department spokesman Joe Baeza. "A rumor that spun out of control."
Baeza said it began with a law enforcement bulletin dated July 24 that was leaked to a blogger. It reads as follows:
"On Friday 7-23-10 Laredo Webb informed that their county SWAT Team is conducting an operation in the Mines Rd. area. According to LT. Garcia with LSO (Laredo Sheriff Office) received a call from a ranch owner stating that the Zetas had taken over his ranch. As per the 17 (reporting person) he informed them that they stated La Compania (Zetas) was taking the ranch and no one was permitted on the ranch without permission. SO (Sheriff Office) will have an unmarked green Ford Taurus with two officers stationed at Los Compadres and a white Chevy Tahoe with two officers stationed at Mineral Rd. The LSO (Laredo Sheriff Office) will maintain surveillance in the area and advise if action is taken. Susp (suspect) Veh (vehicle) are described as a gray or silver Audi, a BLK (black) Escalade or Navigator and a van truck with a logo of a car wash spot free on the side. Border Patrol also has their response team on scene. Also known info of BMW's and Corvettes entering and leaving the area. Auth LT Lichtenberger if assistance is requested LPD (Laredo Police Department) will secure the outer perimeter. (07/24/10 07:42:10 NR1873)"
Stay tune for further updates along the southern border.
Comments
So, I call up my town and say martians are invading my property. It goes out as a police incident report, and investigated. It is subsequently determined as having no validity. Perhaps I'm a paranoid rancher. Perhaps I'm just a nut. Is the disproving of the incident a conspiracy to cover up an alien invasion?
Yes on all counts.
SATSQ.
LOL also, too.
that Dvorak conveniently leaves out, hoping you are too dumb or too lazy to follow the link:
"Those are the things that were being reported to us by another law enforcement agency," said Baeza who claimed that REPORTS TURNED OUT TO BE FALSE. (emphasis added) Baeza says the Webb County Sheriff's Office did get a call from someone claiming the Zetas seized a ranch and were even holding hostages. They sent the information out to other law enforcement agencies then went to the area to investigate.
Baeza says sheriff's deputies talked to ranchers, neighbors, and property owners. "Basically nobody knew what they were talking about," he said.
The sheriff's department says they had deputies stationed in the area for several hours and called off the search when they didn't find anything. "They found no evidence or no trace of anyone taking over these ranches. Nobody was being held captive," Baeza said.
CHANNEL 5 NEWS drove to the area where the rumors originated and spoke with a property owner who goes only by the name "Gutierrez." He said he also heard the Zeta rumor but believes it to be false.
"If that was true, we'd see a lot of commotion going on here. There's nothing going on. There's no commotion. There's no nothing," he said.
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Dvorak, that's what REAL reporters do - interview people on the record and use their names - not phone it in from a thousand miles away.
Your headline is still another lie - "Laredo PD debunks Zeta Incident" would be accurate.
this reporter seems to have a problem differentiating a report from a proven incident.
this is terrible reporting, she should be sanctioned
What's the matter boys and girls? Upset that all the lies coming from the mayor and LPD are being exposed? They lied about this incident for 3 weeks and claimed "nothing happened".
Oops! The blotter leaks out proving that LE took this event very seriously and a multi-agency operation took place in the area.
No officials are just praying that more evidence doesn't leak out proving they are lying again.
Its all falling apart for the open border morons. The truth of Zeta activity will soon be spread to every U.S. citizen. All of Laredo's dirty little secrets are leaking out due to this story.
And the Desperate Debunkers are powerless to stop it. The media is now crawling all over Laredo talking to cops and locals who getting the truth out - finally!
Desperate? No, more amused. It's rather amazing to me that this reporter still has a job, what with her inability to tell the difference between the investigation of a reported incident and an actual incident, but hey, keep effing that chicken.
What is the street address or nearest cross street of this invaded property?
Please also comment here regarding Kimberly Dvorak's report...
http://sdrostra.com/?p=7449
Kimberly,
Once again, not one verifiable source.
But since you stated the ‘police Blotter’ is verified as legitimate, please tell us how you verified this.
If it ACTUALLY is NOW verified, your original article means it was NOT verified when you published. Now you are saying it is verified. Okay, post up the info so we can verify it ourselves.
Upon further research, YOU.....repeat YOU are the originator of the first article and Digger just followed. Today, he is saying that YOU have confirmed it’s all true.
You have confirmed nothing. This article just sets more concrete around your lost credibility, and that in itself is now expected.
However:
Your original article could have easily cost lives, and maybe even did. Police were checking out this hoax when their efforts could be better served elsewhere.
LPD and WSO, once all this BS settles down would be within their rights to send YOU the bill for this travesty you seem to call journalism.
Kim, get a job.
The Laredo Police Department HAS confirmed the Los Zeta incident...AS COMPLETELY FALSE...Give up, Kimberly; you've become a national laughing-stock...
I almost became an Examiner reporter. Seeing that they don't care anything about credibility, I'm glad I didn't. I can't believe they haven't deleted Dvorak's articles and fired her. But, I guess they are getting the page views they want. Sadly, that's apparently all that matters to them. Facts...well, not so much.
Kimberly,
Are you going to even try to defend this?
@biggs: Kimberly knows her position is indefensible; therefore, she does the only thing she can...She IGNORES THE TRUTH...
Despite her national humiliation over this FAKE story, Kimberly, in her all-consuming masochism, STILL won't apologize for her LIES...Go figure...
If the corporate media says it didn't happen, it didn't happen. After all, if the livestock is upset does the farmer care
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