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unhappycamper

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Tue Nov 12, 2013, 06:53 AM Nov 2013

Mexico accuses ex-U.S. soldier of leading kidnapping gang

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/11/mexico-accuses-ex-u-s-soldier-of-leading-kidnapping-gang/



Mexico accuses ex-U.S. soldier of leading kidnapping gang
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, November 11, 2013 20:55 EST

Authorities have detained a former US soldier accused of leading a gang of kidnappers in northern Mexico, officials said Monday.

The 32-year-old suspect spearheaded a band of 16 people who operated in the states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and Tamaulipas in the past four years, said Nuevo Leon security spokesman Jorge Domene.

He carried two identities — Luis Ricardo Gonzalez Garcia and Javier Aguirre Cardenas — and moved to Nuevo Leon’s industrial city of Monterrey from the United States in 2009, Domene said.

He served in the US military between 1998-2002 before working as a police officer in Texas between 2002-2009, the spokesman said.


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Mexico accuses ex-U.S. soldier of leading kidnapping gang (Original Post) unhappycamper Nov 2013 OP
Another spinoff of the military industrial complex. Let's call it "Technology Transfer" nt Xipe Totec Nov 2013 #1
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