Cartel Gunmen Arrested After Crashing into Mexican Army Convoy in Border State

Mexican Army troopers arrested a gaggle of cartel gunmen who crashed into their convoy just a few miles south of the Texas border. After the crash, the troopers discovered the our bodies of 4 gunmen in the again of the automobile that had been killed in an earlier shootout between rival cartels. It seems navy forces didn’t play a job in the gunmen’s deaths.
The crash occurred on Tuesday morning simply south of Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, a metropolis bordering Roma, Texas. Mexican authorities have tried to downplay the crash in an try to divert consideration away from the virtually every day large-scale shootouts between rival cartel gunmen in the northern a part of the nation which are ignored by authorities.
The troopers weren’t patrolling the area however have been escorting a personnel from Mexico’s state-owned oil firm PEMEX. In current years, authorities officers have deployed navy forces to guard Pemex employees and oil strains in an try to preserve drug cartels from stealing gas. It was throughout a type of particulars {that a} convoy of Mexican troopers collided with a pickup truck that was towing a trailer, regulation enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas.
When the troopers acquired out of their automobiles to examine for accidents they discovered 4 our bodies in the mattress of the pickup and arrested a complete of 13 males hiding underneath a tarp in a trailer, the troopers additionally arrested the motive force, who was recognized as 25-year-old Luis Eduardo Ruiz Perez. The essential claimed that the gunmen compelled him to drive them, nevertheless, authorities imagine that Ruiz Perez was in reality a part of the cartel group.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles venture with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart administration. You can observe him on Twitter and on Facebook. He will be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
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