Lucio R Borderland Beat
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The video below is following last month’s CJNG ambush of a state police convoy in Jalisco.
The convoy came under attack while travelling from Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast to Guadalajara. The police had been deployed to Puerto Vallarta to assist with the tourists who had arrived for holiday during Semana Santa (Holy Week).
The convoy came under attack while travelling from Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast to Guadalajara. The police had been deployed to Puerto Vallarta to assist with the tourists who had arrived for holiday during Semana Santa (Holy Week).
15 officers, 14 men and one woman, were murdered by the use of high powered weapons, grenades and incineration.
11 were incinerated. 4 shot, 5 were injured.
The CJNG sicarios had set up camp near the winding road, and appeared to have waited for the convoy for some time. In the surrounding area among the debris left behind by the hitmen, were clothes, beer cans, empty water bottles, food containers, condoms and tents.
When the military convoy was approaching the area, where the CJNG group were waiting their arrival, gunmen blocked the road with a burning truck and fired on the officers when they stopped to investigate.
Authorities say the attack stemmed from March, when state security forces killed a CJNG regional leader named Heriberto Acevedo Cardenas, nicknamed 'El Gringo’.
After that killing there was a failed assassination attempt on state Security Commissioner Alejandro Solorio. During that attempt 4 sicarios were arrested, and authorities contend this ambush was to avenge both the killings of El Gringo and the arrest of the 4 sicarios.