NM border town officials arrested for gun and drug trafficking (Mexican, illegal)

[Gary Siete]

Columbus NM (site of Pancho Villa's raid)- 11 locals were arrested on gun and drug charges - including the mayor, police chief, and a council member. The remaining police officers and trustees have been asked to step down,

Columbus, NM Mayor, Police Chief Indicted On Drugs, Weapons Allegations - News Story - KVIA El Paso
Update: Columbus, N.M., City Leaders Arrested In Federal Raid - News Story - KFOX El Paso


5/1/2009
This dusty little border town with almost no visible means of support has been seeing something of a boom in the past year: Brand-new Lincoln Navigators and Cadillac Escalades with flashy wheel rims are parked just off the bleak main drag. Homes are selling quickly, sometimes for cash... Officially, the median income is less than $15,000 a year, a sum that is hard to reconcile with the sudden prosperity around town.

Mexican drug smugglers move into N.M. - U.S. news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com

edit - i meant this for the PAOC forum not II.

[malamute]

There's a reason that border has been kept and still remains wide open to the cartels and that tons of drugs and whatever easily make their way over the border and into ever portion of the USA, every single US city and town. Money. Money and corruption on BOTH sides of the border.

For every corrupt Mexican border town, there exists and equally corrupt US border town. Big shipments make it from Juarez warehouses directly into El Paso warehouses with very few glitches.

[Yac]

Moved from Illegal Immigration.
Yac.