Elderly Wash. man out of Mexican jail, back in US

An elderly Arlington man has returned to the United States after spending 65 days in a prison in Mexicali, Mexico.

[Annie]

How disgusting putting a 88 year veteran in jail for this alleged charge. People are being murdered and decapitated and they worry about an 88 year man.
Just another reason to stay away from Mexico!

[Billy]

I like toutles

[Law Enforcement In Danger]

Annie wrote:

How disgusting putting a 88 year veteran in jail for this alleged charge. People are being murdered and decapitated and they worry about an 88 year man.
Just another reason to stay away from Mexico!

By Sara Linkletter of Associated Press Update:

The incident came as 16 other people were also killed in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua in attacks the authorities believe are linked to the country's drug wars and due to the bad economy and general crime issues, gangs are attacking and robbing law enforcement as well as kidnapping elderly women and children, raping them, cutting them up with chainsaws and dumping them in lakes and rivers. "Hitmen cut off commander Martin Castro's head and left it in an ice cooler in front of the local police station to taunt and make trouble for the local police," said a statement issued by the state justice authorities. His head was left in the town Praxedis with a message from the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel saying "WE CUT UP ALL COPS AND JUDGES AND SEND THEM TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET YOU HOMIES". The police commander was abducted on Saturday, along with five other police officers and a civilian, only five days after starting his job, taken to a undisclosed location, their penises cut off and stuffed in their mouths, robbed of cash and other property, cut up with chainsaws and dumped in a river nearby. Six bodies in police uniforms bearing signs of torture and gunshot wounds were found on Monday in a street in the state capital, Chihuahua, officials said. Hitmen killed four men in separate attacks in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, while six others, including a woman, were found dead in other towns across the state. Gangs had plans to break their "good friends" out of prison by "killing the guards by shooting them and setting them on fire in the prison hallways" and help out their friends by giving them a ride to hideouts and afterwards "shoot up and burn the stolen vehicles to get rid of any forensic DNA left inside the vehicles" and head to the mountains to escape the police. Mexican police and soldiers are battling a wave of drug-related violence across the country, particularly in northern areas bordering the US, with more than 5,300 people killed last year. The federal government launched a campaign against drug-related violence more than two years ago involving the deployment of around 36,000 troops across the country.

[fred schwartz]

LAWS ARE LAWS AND SHOULD BE RESPECTED ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD REGARDLESS OF THEIR AGE........ AMERICANS ARE NOT INMUNE TO THE LAW!!