Nogales police officers receive threat from Mexican cartel
Tue, 06/22/2010 - 12:26am
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Nogales International
NOGALES, Ariz. — A Mexican drug cartel has threatened Nogales police officers, saying they will be targeted for retribution if they conduct off-duty busts.
Nogales Police Chief Jeffrey Kirkham told the Nogales International late last week that the threats stemmed from an incident approximately two weeks ago, when off-duty officers surprised marijuana smugglers while riding horseback in an unincorporated border area east of town. The officers seized part of the drug load, and the smugglers were able to flee back into Mexico with the other part.
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We went into Panama to arrest Manuel Noriega. Why dont we do the same thing
to these cartel’s?
Really? The drug cartels respect officers doing their job? Whatcha been
smokin’ there?
These problems are happening too close to our Border and yet the federal
givernment has tied the hands of law enforcement in Arizona. They refuse to
help us and shut us down whenever we ask for their help.
How has the federal government tied the hands of Arizona law enforcement
regarding drug smuggling? It has always been illegal by state law to smuggle
drugs and Arizona law enforcement is free to stop smugglers and they do every
day. They did it last weekend on highway 80 and the federal government
assisted them at the DUI checkpoint. Many smugglers go free because the
local, state and federal government lack the funds to prosecute but Arizona
is free to raise taxes and so is the federal government. When SB 1070 goes
into effect next month even fewer resources will be available to jail
smugglers instead funds will be spent to round up dishwashers and fry cooks.
Is that the federal governments fault?
Federal responsibility stems from Article IV Section 4 of the United States
Constitution. Failure to uphold the Constitution has strapped AZ financially
on many fronts. Let’s examine your “fry cook” example to illustrate. The fry
cook is: educating his children on my dime, using emergency rooms as a
doctors office and driving up health care costs for you and me, filling a job
that an Arizonan or LEGAL immigrant could fill, likely not paying taxes, as I
certainly am, since he’s “undocumented” (no SSN, etc). I could go on… And
how did the fry cook get here? Did he trample and destroy someone’s ranch
land? Cut a wire fence allowing livestock to be lost? Destroy any crops?
Trash our national forest? Scare or intimidate campers or hikers - or cause
people to not even try to enjoy these activities? Start a forest fire that
killed wildlife and possibly destroyed peoples homes? Steal? Throw rocks at
BP? Lie? Cheat? Cut in line? Drug smugs and taxes!!? -I wish there was room
to expound.
This would not be happening if our borders werent weak. If our unconcerned
president would send the thousand of troops down there needed in Arizona, the
drug cartels would never get through. our borders need to be secured.
Sheriff Estrada may have his head in the sand if he believes his department
has not been or will not be a target. And what is this about the cartels
being offended if the police officers took action “as a civilian”? Seems like
a really strange line of thinking but then I am no law enforcement officer.
This news story makes me wonder who has been looking the other way when not
on duty?