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Men Dressed as Police Free 53 Mexican Inmates


Posted: 16 May 2009 11:25 PM PDT



Armed men dressed as Mexican federal police officers entered a heavily

guarded prison in the northern state of Zacatecas early Saturday morning

and freed more than 50 inmates, many of whom were believed to be drug
traffickers allied with the powerful Gulf Cartel, the authorities said.


The huge jailbreak, which took place about 5 a.m., was an embarrassment to

the government of President Felipe Calderón, who has touted the arrests of

thousands of drug traffickers over the last two years as evidence that
organized crime groups were on the defensive.


The team of criminals who gained entry to the prison in Cieneguillas showed
how vulnerable Mexican institutions remain.


The men arrived in a caravan of 15 vehicles with police markings as well as

in a helicopter, according to news reports. To gain entry, the gunmen claimed

that they were carrying out an authorized prisoner transfer.


After subduing the guards, they left with 53 of the prison’s 1,500 inmates, in

an operation that lasted only minutes, officials said.


After they got away, police officers and soldiers swarmed the state, closing
many roads as they searched for the fugitives, El Sol de Zacatecas, a local

newspaper, reported.


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Officials Use Anti-Terror Cameras to Stop Golf Ball Bombardment


Posted: 16 May 2009 11:18 PM PDT



Golf balls are bombarding the Port of Everett and anti-terrorism

cameras are being trained on a residential neighborhood to hunt down

the source.

Port officials believe someone on Rucker Hill is whacking golf balls down

the hill onto port property, endangering dozens of workers and millions

of dollars worth of equipment and cargo.

“We’re trying to use any means possible to stop it, aside from posting

somebody in the field of fire all day and night,” said Ed Madura, a port

security official. The port says the flying golf balls constitute a threat to

personal safety. Pointing video surveillance cameras toward the likely

source is an appropriate use of the equipment, port officials say.


In the eyes of at least one resident in the Rucker Hill neighborhood

southwest of downtown, swiveling the cameras from the fence line to

the neighborhood is an invasion of privacy.


“Hitting golf balls is a problem, but if they turn their cameras up on the

neighborhood and spy on us, that’s a bigger problem,” said David

Mascarenas, a neighborhood watchdog who has for years fought the port

to improve the community’s access to public land.


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