• 2 alleged Mexican criminals Deported Tuesday
  EL PASO, TX. - Two alleged criminals who were arrested in the US are deported back to their native Mexico Tuesday. US Federal Officials escorted two criminals back to their native Mexico, and handed them over to police in Juarez. According to Mexican law enforcment officials, the two men are wanted for two separate murders. Hector Cepeda-Vargas, who was found living in Wisconsin, allegedly shot and killed a policewoman in Durango. The other man, Jesus Murga-Parada allgedly shot and killed a man following a bar fight in Chihuahua City. - (Mexico) - (Invasion!)
  

• Mexican Radio Announcer Gunned Down
  NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico -- An anchorman for a Mexican radio station was shot to death early Friday by gunmen waiting for him in the bushes in front of his house in this violent border city. Ramiro Tellez Contreras, who also worked for the state emergency services and was a former policeman, was hit by two bullets in the neck and two in the chest, state police said in a news release.  - (Mexico) - (Newsroom)
  

Mexican Man Suspected in Killings Arrested
MONTERREY, Mexico -- Authorities have captured a man accused of stabbing to death his ex-girlfriend and killing her two young siblings, attacks that have shocked this northern city. Diego Santoy, 21, was captured at a police roadblock in the southern state of Oaxaca on Monday night, four days after ex-girlfriend Erika Pena, 18, was killed. Her 3-year-old sister was strangled, and her 7-year-old brother was stabbed to death, said Luis Trevino, the top prosecutor for Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located.  

• U.S., Mexico Discuss Migration, Security
• Mexican female wrestler to Stand Trial in Six Deaths
  Prosecutors said they have evidence implicating Juana Barraza as the notorious "Mataviejitas," or "Little Old Lady Killer."
• A War in Mexico: Drug Runners Gun Down Journalists

Six Mexican Nationals Accused of Rape, Sex-trafficking and Pimping Illegal Aliens
Salvador Fernando Molina Garcia told investigators that his wife became a prostitute against his wishes after they illegally crossed the border and came to Houston. But the woman he identified as his wife said he lured her to his apartment in Mexico, raped her and forced her into prostitution here. Molina Garcia pleaded guilty Tuesday to a sex-trafficking conspiracy charge.  The 37-year-old man is one of six Mexican nationals indicted on charges accusing them of smuggling young women and girls across the border and forcing them to work as prostitutes in Houston bars. The organization used violence, threats and deception to recruit victims and hold them in prostitution.- (Invasion!)   Mexican national pleads guilty to bringing sex slaves to Houston-area bars
Ref: Mexican girls were forced to work as prostitutes at Houston-area bars
Ref: Acusan en EU a cuatro mexicanos de tráfico de mujeres adolescentes - (Mexico)

• "Cross-dressing" serial killer stumps Mexico City police  
  MEXICO CITY -- The killer is either a cross-dressing man or a robust woman who strangles elderly women with stockings or telephone cables.
  Mexican police believe the so-called "Mataviejitas," or "Little Old Lady Killer," has killed at least seven elderly women in the country's bustling capital of 20 million, although they are investigating whether 22 other slayings of older Mexico City women since 2003 are also related.
  

• On Mexican border, three men detained for rape, homicide of a 17-year-old girl
  Authorities say two of the suspects admit they'd been drinking with Claudia Flores Javier in her home early December 24th when one of them proposed having sex with her. She refused.  Mexico investigators say the three then raped the teen. She also was beaten. The three suspects are Mario Loya Aguirre and Jorge Armando Sifuentes Martinez _ both detained on December 25th -- and Eleazar Pena Navarro, who was arrested Tuesday.   All are jailed in Juarez, across the border from El Paso.

• Body of young girl found in suitcase in Mexico - Police make grim discovery on sidewalk in Mexico City
  MEXICO CITY - Police discovered the body of a young girl on Thursday that had been stuck inside a suitcase and left on a busy sidewalk in Mexico City.Investigators were working to identify the girl, thought to be between 5 and 6 years old, and establish the cause of death, a police spokeswoman said.
• Mexican Policeman accused of stealing hurricane aid

• Smugglers Selling Sick Puppies From Mexico
  On Nov. 15, federal agents searching a Honda CR-V at the Otay Mesa crossing found 16 undeclared puppies in three cages that were covered by blankets and boxes of laundry detergent. The suspect, a Mexican woman with an animal cruelty record, allegedly told investigators she needed the money and had lots of orders to fill.  

• Mexican Police Rescue 3 Kidnapping Victims 
  MEXICO CITY -- Police raided a house outside Mexico City, capturing two alleged kidnappers and rescuing three people, including an 8-year-old girl, who had been held for more than two months. The dramatic morning raid, widely aired on Mexican television, comes amid scrutiny of the Federal Agency of Investigation, the country's FBI, for connections to drug traffickers and a video showing the killing of a self-described drug hit man.
• Mexico: Ex-Cop Sentenced in Cardinal's Death
  GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- A court has sentenced a former police commander to 40 years in prison in the 1993 shooting death of a Roman Catholic cardinal at the Guadalajara airport, officials said Friday. The court said Humberto Rodriguez Banuelos was part of a gang of gunmen that riddled Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo with bullets while he was sitting in his car at the airport in Guadalajara, 280 miles northwest of Mexico City.

• Mexican Juan Fernando Licea-Cedillo Gets 24 Years in illegal immigrants Railcar Deaths Case
  The accused leader of a South Texas smuggling ring was sentenced Monday to more than 24 years in prison for his role in the 2002 train car deaths of 11 illegal immigrants. Juan Fernando Licea-Cedillo bought information about train schedules from Arnulfo Flores Jr., a former Union Pacific train conductor, so he could know when to put immigrants on trains northbound from the Rio Grande Valley. - (Invasion!)
• Mexican Women who cross border illegally are targets for rape - their underpants often hung on a border fence as a trophy
• U.S. border Patrol negotiates tough terrain
• Vatican Beatifies 13 Mexican Martyrs
  The Vatican on Sunday beatified 13 Mexicans who died during a Roman Catholic uprising in the late 1920s
  that was crushed by the Mexican government.

• Mexico Charges Seven Cops With Kidnapping  
• Mexican Drug Lords Increasingly Powerful
• Mexico's Prisons Are Home to Drug Lords  

• Mexican Priest Found Cuffed, Shot to Death
  He was assigned to a parish church in the Colinas de Agua Caliente neighborhood, which is where many drug gangs in Tijuana operate.

• Mexico: Looting Breaks Out in Wilma's Wake 
  It's chaos," said fire official Gregorio Vergara. "They are taking things all over the city."

• Mexico, U.S. plan to fight border violence The Violent Crime Impact Team will target the most violent members of warring drug cartels. Armed with high-powered weapons, the warring cartels have been blamed for more than 140 murders this year alone in Nuevo Laredo. 

• Mexican Church Gets Donations From Drug Dealers
• Mexico's Catholic Church corruption and connection to narco crime organizations 

Border Governors Implement Safety Plans
NOGALES, Ariz. -- The governors of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora announced stepped-up plans to combat border-related crime, saying they were prompted to act in part because their respective national governments have been slow to help. Arizona will create a new detail of officers to help target vehicle theft -- a crime often linked to transporting of illegal immigrants -- and to gather intelligence to identify people taking large amounts of cash from the United States to Mexico, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said.  In addition, police in the border-area cities  and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department will assign dozens more officers to combat vehicle theft, drug trafficking and other border-related crime, Napolitano said. - (Invasion!)
Ref: Governor of the Mexican state of Sonora José Eduardo Bours Castelo accused of fraud in the United States
"conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to commit theft civilly, violation of fiduciary obligations, violation of confidence and fraud"