After 16 days of denials by Laredo law enforcement and local officials regarding a Mexican drug cartel takeover of a Laredo area ranch, a Texas police blotter proves the alleged incident did in fact happen and that multiple agencies responded to the scene of a seized U.S. ranch.
Think about it for a moment.
One of the most brutal drug cartels operating in Mexico crossed the U.S. border and took a ranch from its lawful owner.
Intimidation has arrived along the southern border.
The police blotter tells the story of the events that unfolded on July 23rd;
“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 (area name for 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)”
Cartels have crossed the sovereign borders of the United States causing multiple agencies to respond and the end result was a media blackout. It’s well documented that media blackouts in Mexico are happening because the cartels are threatening reporters and news outlets with bodily harm. The question is why American law enforcement agencies are giving reporters the “We can neither confirm nor deny the incident happened line?”
It was a law enforcement officer on the scene that also confirmed the incident in fact happened and officers on the ground said they “considered this an act of war.”
The cover-up surrounding this story has reverberated throughout other federal law enforcement agencies. A recently retired ICE veteran, John Sakelarides had plenty to say about the latest U.S. incursion.
“What do you call an invasion by foreign nationals who are armed and occupy territory belonging to a sovereign nation? An act of war. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Anyone who is denying this is what has occurred and that it constitutes an act of war is either an idiot or is somehow involved in this act of war.”
He continues to say, “If they (those covering-up the story) are elected representatives or government officials and they are aware that an act of war has been perpetrated against the United States, and refuse to admit it has occurred, much less do anything about it, is violating their oath of office.”
The approximate location of the U.S. ranch taken by the Zetas was 10 miles northwest of I-35 off Mines Road and Minerales Annex Road.
The Los Zetas drug cartel is an offshoot of the elite Mexican military trained in special ops, many of whom were trained by the U.S. military. The mercenary organization is said to include members of corrupt Mexican Federales, politicians as well as drug traffickers. The group was once part of the Gulf cartel, but has splintered and now directly competes with the Gulf cartel for premium drug smuggling routes in the Texas region.
The leader of Los Zetas cartel is Heriberto “El Lazca” Lazcano and the Zetas are considered the most violent paramilitary group in Mexico by the DEA. These drug cartels routinely kidnap tourists, infiltrate local municipalities and smuggle large quantities of narcotics into the U.S. marketplace.
A media firestorm ensued after this reporter posted a story on Saturday July 24, 2010. Now that the story is corroborated, it will be up to local media to track down what events took place after the Zetas seized a U.S ranch.
Stay tuned for updates reports throughout the week.
For original story; http://www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d24-Los-Zetas-drug-cartel-takes-control-2-US-ranches-in-Texas
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Congratulations Kimberly on providing all the crystal ball main stream journalists with something to chew on.
"WHEN WHISPERED TIPS COMMING OUT OF GOVERMENT AT THE BOTTOM HAVE MORE CREDIBITY THAN OFFICIAL INFORMATION RELEASED FROM THOSE AT THE TOP, WE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE"
It's a breath of fresh air to know a person who questions and refuses to accept every hand fed press release offered by government spin doctors.
Obviously someone with their feet on the ground along the border felt your pain and trusted you enough to provide the computer entry regarding the incident.
I can only imagine your frustration during the attack on your credibility.
Keep up the good work.
Fellow Americans. it is time to take our Country back! It is up to us, what has happened to the backbone of this great Nation! Fight them all the way back to the border!
I am a Tea Party supporter who lives in Laredo. This story is false. There is no police blotter from the Webb County (where Laredo is located) Sheriff's Office that is anything close to this report. I know the mayor personally (Raul Salinas) and he has spoken with the two owners of the ranches in question who told him the story is false. I also know the Laredo Morning Times Editor (Diana Fuentes) who told me they sent reporters out to the Sheriff's office and the ranches and determined it to be a false report. We have plenty of real stuff to use, let's not use a bogus report that makes us look bad. By the way, No one, especially not the Sheriff's office, ever refers to "Laredo Sheriff's Office." It is Webb or Webb County Sheriff's Office. In my investigation of this claim however, I spoke with two members of the Laredo Police Department who told me that they are conducting surveillance of the Delwood Meat Market Grocery Store on Mines Road due to threats the owner has received from people claiming to be Zetas. Two men came into the store and claimed they were Zetas. They did not show guns but said that whatever they wanted they were going to take in the future. This is a true story. But it is worth noting that several businesses in the area have received phone calls from people claiming to be Zetas asking for protection money. No one has paid it and the police are investigating, but the police presume this is a scam by non-Zetas to get money using the Zeta name.
Man, yall buy any ole' snake oil, wontcha?
There's no such thing as the "Laredo Sheriff's Office" as reported in the so-called police report. Nope, there's only the "Webb County Sheriff's Office".
Looks like whoever wrote that fake report don't know the difference between the police and the sheriff. There is one.
So many other sites have proven this story is false. Go to talkingpointsmemo.com and read what they and the Texas police say about this. The author of this story should be fired for lying or so stupid that she can't do any real research. Please believe what ever you want Edward, just understand that faith does not need truth and truth does not need faith. I hope the coolaid tastes good.
Wingnuts will believe anything.
Like that Saddam never had wmds! haha a**holes
Obama has some splainin' to do! The guy is in bed with the Mexican Government big time! Dirty, filthy, corrupt politics! Sick of this crap.
Great efforts, Kimberly! I hope we get to the bottom of this. Also, just an FYI, the police blotter mentions the 'Laredo Sheriff Office.' I don't believe this office exists. There's a 'Webb County Sheriff's Office,' to which the city of Laredo is part of; but not a 'Laredo Sheriff's Office.' It could be just incorrect terminology used by who ever wrote it. I hope it's authentic.
I DO believe that the story is true. The latest word is that Los Zetas are offering very large sums of money to the ranch owners for their properties. If they accept the money quietly, we may never know the whole truth...
I can second the name thing. As a peace officer in Texas I know that SO's refer to themselves by the county, not municipal entity. On the other hand incursions into the US by paramilitary cartel groups have happened in the past and will happen in the future unless we seal the border.
This article is garbage. I live in Laredo and drive in the area of this ranch all of the time. It amazes me the length at which some people will go to get attention. This article is total BS.
Umm Mark (below), are you working with the Mexican cartels?
That's a photo of the actual Laredo PD police blotter from the next day after the incident. Are you stupid or are you dirty? Which is it?
Looks like the truth of the Zeta activities in South Texas has some bad guys really stirred up and nervous! Good, they should be. American citizens will not put up with this Mexican garbage spilling across our border.
Shoot to kill all armed invaders on sight!
A great story, essential for all Americans to know. With the border violence escalating and the Mexican Drug Cartels getting bolder, it is essential for citizens to be fully informed. That way they can protect themselves and make the best choices in November. A superb story, and I am glad to see you persevered in the light of such vociferous doubt.
Thank you for staying on top of this story and not caving to pressure as so many "journalists" do. We are lucky to have people like you that are unafraid to tell the truth. May God Bless you and keep you safe!
It will be interesting to see just how far the SPLC and Media Matters will now go to continue to try to distract from this very REAL story. Their ability to lie is just "the ends justifying the means". Thank God for great citizen journalists like you Kim and Dan Amato and Jeff Schwilk and many others who are not on the government payroll to spew Obama propaganda.
Thanks Kimberly for staying with this story and getting proof from a law enforcement about this huge coverup.
Lets see if Glenn Beck apologizes to his radio audience now for carelessly calling this story a hoax. Beck's researchers need to stop getting their news from the SPLC and left-wing open border media.
Hopefully some local reporters in South Texas will now actually do their jobs and get the rest of the is story about the Zeta takeover of the ranch on July 23.
Wow great investigative work! You found an incident log! And everything a reporting party states sin the officer's narrative must be gospel! Where did you go to journalism school, Arby's?
People who want to attack the story don't need a reason to do so. No amount of corroborating evidence will convince those types--as demonstrated by Dazed and Confused and good ol' Mark ("who lives in Laredo and drives in the area of this ranch all the time").
When Los Zetas almost blew up the Falcon Dam, there wasn't one report of the incident in the local media. Bet you drive by there all the time and didn't see anything that time either.
This all part of the plan. Do not look at the black helicopters and by all means do NOT put tinfoil on your head.
Well now. Police blotters. Seems everyone can make one. Here is my response.
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tinyurl.com/25ewxlg
Is there a link for the police blotter ?
Kimberly, the first commandment of journalism: attribution-attribution-attribution. What's the source of this blotter, where did you find it and why hasn't any other member of the news media -- including myself, who's only a couple of hours away from Laredo and has two unimpeachable sources on the ground there -- heard a single solitary thing about it?
Well, like we say down here in middle-america, if it ain't on YouTube, then it didn't happen.
Some of you are quick to believe whatever you read. You don't think someone on this earth would of went to this ranch and took pictures, videos, or interviewed the ranch owner ? No one would of gone and took pictures, videos of the police barricade ? No one would of gotten a camera by now and talked to anyone there on the alleged scene? Stop being sheeple and grow up. THINK !
Can someone please provide contact info for the Laredo Sheriff's Office? I can find a Laredo Police Department and a Webb County Sheriff's Office, but no Laredo Sheriff's Office. Please correct me if I'm wrong. A link to this blotter online at an official law enforcement web site (LPD or WCS) also is needed. Has someone asked them for confirmation? If this is a coverup, how did it ever make it onto a blotter or official report? And how did Ms. Dvorak get it? Please help us be clear as to the provenance of this blotter information.
My sources have been sworn to secrecy. I cannot link the police blotter because of the death threats. A camera crew had their equipment forcibly taken from them by members of Los Zetas dressed as law enforcement officers. A tape recording of a deputy giving details exists but she is afraid that if it is released her children will be harmed. The sheriff has promised to release a statement by the end of the week.
BULLS*!T. What a liar.
You ask the same questions I'm asking Betsy. I'm the general manager of the Gonzales Cannon and I just queried LPD and WCSD. No such blotter appeared from them -- it's public information under FOIA and their blotters for that date have no such incident reported.
Kimberly.
It's great to support border security and to blame the federal government for failing its job, but I have never in 35 years of professional journalism MADE UP a story just to rattle the bushes.
Police blotters from ANY agency are public information under FOIA. This blotter is not from any government agency, it's something made up, every bit as unprofessional as Andrew Breitbart because it not only degrades the profession, it degrades the cause -- border security -- by painting us with the brush of fanaticism.
Everyone hold your pants on. The police blotter says the police responded to a call (the allegation that the Zeta's have taken over a ranch). That doesn't prove or disprove that any Zeta's were there...the blotter just documents that law enforcement responded as they should when a citizen believes they are in danger. Seek the facts and don't let your emotions rule your brain. Too many unanswered questions to come to any definite conclusion now.
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Contact this business owner. They are apparently right next to the location of this incident. Maybe they can shed some light on this, but for now, I'd still call it BS.
16 days now and not one reporter in South Texas has had the cojones to do their damn job and investigate what actually happened on Minerales Annex Rd. on July 23, 2010.
Obama and the Mexican cartels win. We're all Jews in Germany now - too afraid to even seek the truth, much less report on it. Sounds like the cartels have a very strong foothold in the Laredo area.
Thank God for Kimberly who has worked this story for 2 1/2 weeks the best she could from California with her multiple LE sources confirming that something DID happen at a ranch on July 23.
Living: I've been on this story from the get-go -- I was one of those who initially bought the Digger's Realm fabrication hook, line and sinker. I'm sorry that the reporters (especially one of the five TV stations in Laredo) has yet to get anyone some video, but the facts are that unless the Men in Black have been around with their mind-wiping wands, there WAS no "ranch takeover." One of my sources is a security company head,a former Marine, who was called into Webb County on July 24. His word: "We've had to run Zetas off properties before, but there was no "takeover" on July 23."
Believe me, I'd be one of the first people sounding an alarm if it had been true -- check my own Texas Nationalist Examiner reporting on the incident. But it doesn't pass credibility muster.
We need to quit arguing amongst ourselves because this is the best tool any enemy has for winning a victory. Heck, we are spending more time fighting about if it really happened or not, name calling, and blaming someone else for bad info, than we are focusing on being a United Nation, and solving the issue. Here is the Sheriff's Dept info... Call and ask them if it's true:
Webb County Sheriffs Office
902 Victoria St, Laredo, TX 78040
(956) 523-4500
Dave, you can't possibly be that stupid. You asked LE to admit they covered up this story and they told you they didn't?
If that's your definition of investigative journalism, you need to move across the border into Neuvo Laredo. You'll do well in Mexico and probably not get shot by the cartels.
How about you get off your a## and go investigate! The weak denials from Webb Sheriffs have been solid since the morning of the 24th. We're long past that part of the story.
If you work for the cartels, Dave, you're not doing a very good job for them.
The reason the government and media kept it a secret is that the Islamic Muslim Terrorist named Obama did not want us to know. He want these things to happen and he supports them. He is probably pocketing a hefty payoff to let it happen. I have no respect for Obama, our government, and especially now the corrupt news media which has gone sour over the years.
Anybody track down LT Lichtenberger? There are probably a number of LT Garcias. Is this worded like other blotter reports of similar crimes (property invasions, burglaries, robberies) with similar terms and types of information given?
This is what really happened on Minerales Annex Rd. on July 23, 2010. The purported members of Los Zetas were actually a group of undercover minutemen preparing to raid a known 'coyote' safehouse. Local law enforcement was willing to turn a blind eye when the minutemen enforced some extrajudicial justice to the 'coyotes'. However due to the unfortunate media attention the smugglers have abandoned the safehouse and many weeks of minutemen preparation were for naught.
Then tell us Mr. Crack reporter, what really happened after the 911 call from the rancher?
Why don't you be the first reporter in America to get the answser to that question and tell the public what really happened? If the rancher called in a hoax, that's a crime and he should be prosecuted.
What's the story, Ace? Quit telling us what the story was not and tell us what it is. What are you afraid of?
The million dollar question that you, nor anyone has had the stones to get answered: Why did Webb Sheriffs deny the story when obviously SOMETHING happened there. What are they hiding?
FOIA the 911 call and go from there. You know what you have to do.
Do it!
Kimberly,
A couple of points.
You cannot reveal your sources because of death threats. Ok. Understandable, but at this point, just hearsay. Wouldn’t hold up in court, and it doesn’t hold up for journalistic credibility.
My Yorkie came running in an jumping and barking telling me the sky was falling. I do speak Yorkie don’t ya know. However, he can’t be on the record cuz nobody else speaks Yorkie. If I’m gonna go into print about the sky falling, I MUST find the evidence to PROVE the sky is falling.
BTW, thanks for your continued visits to my page. I’m at a loss as to why you visit the same page over and over again. There are two more pages on this same subject. My page 3 on this subject contains a police blotter which may interest you.
After several calls Webb Sheriff's still deny this incident. I wonder who in Texas has money on their hands to cover this up. The evidence so far supports the fact that it did indeed happen. kimberly get them and hold fire to their toes. Sheriff JOe would
Let’s summarize the two sides of this argument.
Pro: Since there’s no official evidence this event happened, that’s proof there’s a cover-up.
Con: Since there’s no official evidence this event happened, it’s proof it didn’t happen.
If a journalist doesn’t report it, it’s because they’re part of the cover-up or too incompetent to do their job.
If an Examiner from San Diego, paid solely by page views, says it happened and can’t provide any documentation as to the authenticity of her ‘evidence,’ she’s the victim of mean attacks. When asked to cite her sources, she reveals in the comments section that they’re under death threats.
Y'all, that’s pretty pathetic, when all you can do to defend her is to call anybody who doubts her a useful idiot for the New World Order or whatever. Makes you look bad.
Dvorak, how about launching a Conspiracy Theory Examiner? You understand the method pretty well.
I knew about this the next day by a Dispatcher in the laredo Police Department, Henry Cuellar a native laredoan and congressman covered it up as well as his Brother the HEAD SHERIFF in Laredo, MARTIN CUELLAR... A few weeks before that Henry Cuellar mentioned that the Border were more secure after the 1200 National Guardsmen deployed, get this only 8 were sent to the laredo sector and of course the Feds law suit on AZ was coming up a week before this incident happen on the mines road ranch, Do the Math!
Summarize whatever you want but the truth if the matter if that it happen and when i saw this article today it was identical as the way an law enforcement agent and a few other explain to me what had happen where it happen at and who was dispatched at the scene. This incident its a political move that the DEMS are trying to use again because of the feds vs. AZ lawsuit.
1) There wasn't any 911 call from any rancher.
2) it wasn't logged into any police blotter, public or secret.
We know all this through an amazing piece of specialized intelligence gathering - a phone book.
Which proves, beyond any doubt, THAT THERE AIN'T ANY FREAKIN' "Laredo Sheriff Office."
This crazy woman JUST MAKES STUFF UP!
She maybe selling, but you don't have to be stupid enough to keep BUYING!
Summarize whatever you want but the truth if the matter if that it happen and when i saw this article today it was identical as the way an law enforcement agent and a few other explain to me what had happen where it happen at and who was dispatched at the scene. This incident its a political move that the DEMS are trying to use again because of the feds vs. AZ lawsuit.
That's right. We took over two ranches in Laredo. The police were offered the standard choice in these situations. Silver or lead. The cops took the money and keep their mouths shut. They will continue to stay silent or we will kill them. Today Laredo, tomorrow Dallas. Suck it gringos.
To dave dave MUST BE SMOKING HIS GIRLS UNDIES BECAUSE THERE SURE IS A SHERIFF DEPT IN LAREDO... LOL... I LIVED IN LAREDO FOR OVER 27 YEARS FOOL LOL
TexasGOPVote.com is also covering this story from a different perspective. I have verified that screen Kimberly posted as being from an LPD computer display. It is an authentic message. I will post some information tomorrow about what this means to this story.
And is it "Laredo Sheriff Office" or is it "Webb County Sheriff's Department"???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm??????
See, no real cop would list the agency incorrectly.
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