Mexican marines use helicopter gunship to kill alleged cartel leader and members

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Mexican marines use helicopter gunship to kill alleged cartel leader and members

Associated Press in Mexico City
Friday 10 February 2017 22.41 GMT

An alleged regional leader of the Beltrán Leyva drug cartel and 11 accomplices have been killed in clashes with Mexican marines who poured gunfire into a house from a helicopter-mounted machine gun.

The federal interior department said via Twitter that Juan Francisco Patrón Sánchez headed the cartel’s operations in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit and in the southern part of Jalisco state. The navy official identified the dead capo by the criminal nickname “H2”.

A Mexican navy official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said Friday that Patrón and seven accomplices had opened fire on marines and had barricaded themselves in the upper part of a house in the Nayarit state capital of Tepic.

The official said that a helicopter gunship had been called in to provide “dissuasive fire”, to suppress outgoing gunfire from the structure on Thursday.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/10/mexico-helicopter-gun-drug-cartel-leader-killed


[font size=1]A bullet-ridden sport utility vehicle was taken away after a gun battle with Mexican marines in which an alleged regional drug cartel leader was killed in Nayarit state. Photograph: Chris Arias/AP[/font]

[pkdu]

1. Apparently bullet proof glass ? nt

[Hayabusa]

2. Looks kinda that way

though not bulletproof enough for whatever that chopper was packing.

[pkdu]

3. Yep - look for the Cartels to ramp up with ground to air missiles at each location. nt

[denbot]

4. Good grouping of shots.

Marines, are Marines..