TUCSON- The search for missing 71-year-old Guillermin Lopez is continuing Sunday in the area of East Roger Road and Catalina Highway.
According to Pima County Sheriff's Deputy Tom Peine, Lopez was last seen around 7:20 p.m. Saturday at the Dempsey's Adult Care Home on East Roger Road.
Authorities say she is mentally disabled and diabetic and has only been at the care home for 24 hours.
Lopez is described as Hispanic, with salt and pepper hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet tall, heavyset and was wearing a grey sweater and grey pants when she was last seen.
Members from the Sheriff's Search and Rescue, Southern Arizona Rescue Association, Southwest Rescue Dogs and Southern Arizona Mounted Search and Rescue Association are assisting in the search.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts should call 9-1-1.
PORTERVILLE, Calif. — Three people died and four others, including two young girls, were wounded after a shooting on an Indian reservation in Central California, authorities said.
When deputies were called to a trailer Saturday night on the Tule Indian Reservation, they found the body of a man and a woman inside, Tulare County sheriff’s officials said in a release Sunday. A third body was nearby.
Deputies also found a wounded male juvenile. His condition was not known.
Tulare County authorities did not immediately return a call to The Associated Press seeking details.
The Fresno Bee (http://bit.ly/WUNeOW ) reported that a vehicle with the suspect — 31-year-old Hector Celaya — and his daughters, ages 5 and 8, was pulled over by deputies early Sunday.
Celaya was then wounded during an exchange of gunfire. He was being treated for life threatening injuries, sheriff’s officials said in their release.
Officials say the girls were hospitalized after they had been earlier shot by their father. One girl suffered life-threatening injuries while the other girl was less seriously hurt.
Sheriff’s officials say they were able find Celaya by tracking his cellphone.
The reservation where the shooting took place is about 50 miles north of Bakersfield.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said, in the latest blow to the Islamic militant network.
Sheik Khalid bin Abdel Rehman al-Hussainan, who was also known as Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti, was killed when missiles slammed into a house Thursday near Mir Ali, one of the main towns in the North Waziristan tribal area, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Al-Kuwaiti appeared in many videos released by al-Qaida's media wing, Al-Sahab, and was presented as a religious scholar for the group.
Earlier this year, he replaced Abu Yahya al-Libi, al-Qaida's second in command, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan in June, the intelligence officials said. Al-Libi was a key religious figure within al-Qaida and also a prominent militant commander.
Al-Kuwaiti appeared to be a less prominent figure and was not part of the U.S. State Department's list of most wanted terrorist suspects, as al-Libi had been.
Covert CIA drone strikes have killed a series of senior al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in Pakistan's tribal region over the past few years. But the attacks are controversial because the secret nature of the program makes it difficult to determine how many civilians are being killed.
Pakistani officials often criticize the strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty, which has helped make them extremely unpopular in the country. But senior Pakistani officials are known to have cooperated with strikes in the past, and many people believe they still do.
Lone wolf hits mark
Al-Kuwaiti's wife and daughter were wounded in Thursday's drone attack, according to the intelligence officials. His wife died a day later at a hospital in Miran Shah, another main town in North Waziristan.
Al-Kuwaiti was buried in Tappi village near Mir Ali on Friday, the officials said.
A Pakistani Taliban commander who frequently visits North Waziristan told the Associated Press by telephone that he met some Arab fighters on Saturday who were "very aggrieved." The Arabs told him they lost a "big leader" in a drone strike, but would not reveal his name or his exact position in al-Qaida.
The Taliban commander spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of revealing his identity to the Pakistani government.
Al-Qaida's central leadership in Pakistan has been dealt a series of sharp blows in the past few years, including the U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad last year. A significant number of senior al-Qaida leaders have also been killed in U.S. drone attacks in the country.
Many analysts believe the biggest threat now comes from al-Qaida franchises in places like Yemen and Somalia.
MEXICO CITY — As a U.S. Marine, Jon Hammar endured nightmarish tension patrolling the war-ravaged streets of Iraq’s Fallujah. When he came home, the brutality of war still pinging around his brain, mental peace proved elusive. Surfing provided the only respite.
“The only time Hammar is not losing his mind is when he’s on the water,” said a fellow Marine veteran, Ian McDonough.
Hammar and McDonough devised a plan: They’d buy a used motor home, load on the surfboards and drive from the Miami area to Costa Rica to find “someplace to be left alone, someplace far off the grid,” McDonough said.
They made it to only the Mexican border. Hammar is in a Matamoros prison, where he spends much of his time chained to a bed and facing death threats from gangsters. He’s off the grid, for sure, in walking distance of the U.S. border. But it’s more of a black hole than a place to heal a troubled soul.
The reason might seem ludicrous. Hammar took a six-decade-old shotgun into Mexico. The .410 bore Sears & Roebuck shotgun once belonged to his great-grandfather. The firearm had been handed down through the generations, and it had become almost a part of Hammar, suitable for shooting birds and rabbits.
But Mexican prosecutors who looked at the disassembled relic in the 1972 Winnebago motor home dismissed the U.S. registration papers Hammar had filled out. They charged him with a serious crime: possession of a weapon restricted for use to Mexico’s armed forces.
Hammar isn’t the only American accused of questionable gun-related charges at Mexico’s border. Last April, a truck driver who was carrying ammunition through Texas got lost near the border, dipped into Mexico to make a U-turn and was forced to spend more than six months in jail.
t’s been months since Hammar’s Aug. 13 arrest, and his former Marine comrades are livid and dumbfounded, impotent to help.
CARTEL THREATS IN PRISON
In August, the family received a
frightening middle of the night phone call from the cartel demanding money, said
Jon Hammar, a 48-year-old software engineer.
"'Lady, this isn't about the police. This
is our house. We have your son. We're going to kill him if you don't send us
money,'" Hammar said, recounting the phone call.
The couple planned to wire the money to an
account, but officials at the U.S. consulate intervened and contacted prison officials. His son
was moved into a private cell the next day, he said.
Friday, December 7, 2012 | Borderland Beat Reporterbadanov
Six unidentified individuals and one police agent were found dead in Zacatecas state Thursday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports.
According to a news item posted Thursday on the website of El Sol de Zacatecas, a municipal police patrol found the body of Policia Estatal Acreditable (PEA) agent Juan Ormidio Aguilar Lara in Calera municipality inside a Ferris wheel on El Montecillo ranch.
Aguilar Lara was a police commander who disappeared last Tuesday just after he started his vacation. Aguilar Lara resided in Calera municipality.
Six other unidentified individuals were found in the same area, three men and three women.
In the same area the day before a patrol which included Policia Estatal Preventiva (PEP) and Policia Federal (PF) police detained three suspected criminals, weapons and three vehicles. It unclear in the report if the detainees had anything to do with the disappearance and death of Aguilar Lara.
Friday, December 7, 2012 | Borderland Beat ReporterChivis
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The Attorney General of the State (PGJE) reported through a press conference, that they have identified one of the four people who were discovered hanging from a bridge of the Distributor Road El Sarape.
The identified man Carlos Omar Gonzalez Molina was 20 years of age who, according to the ongoing investigation by the authorities, was engaged in criminal activity as a “halcon” or lookout, for which cartel was not specified.
Gonzales Molina was reported missing on Dec. 6. The other three bodies have not been identified.
It was at 05:15 hrs today when the alert was triggered by a report of four dead people hanging from the Serape distributor road bridge. The deseased were four men, aged between 17 and 35 years. The bodies were hung on the inside lane from east to west. The bodies bore signs of intense torture and were wrapped from head to toe.
A few meters from the scene on Highway 57 and Juan Navarro was an abandoned Neon vehicle, gray with 9798 UCD plates and Texas license plates J31TGX. inside the vehicle found no traces or signs of violence but there were signs of attempts to torch the vehicle.
When the spokesman Sergio Sisbles was asked if a message accompanied the bodies, he declined to answer directly saying “a full report with details will be forthcoming”.
Tempe police on Friday said that a red shoe found near Tempe Town Lake contains DNA that matches that of a missing Arizona State University student.
Police said they were notified by the Department of Public Safety Crime Lab that it had confirmed Jack Colulias' DNA in the shoe found by his mother.
Culolias, 19, has not been seen by friends or family since he left Cadillac Ranch Tempe Marketplace about 11 p.m. Nov. 30, ASU police spokesman Jim Hardina said.
The search for Culolias was called off about 4:30 p.m. Friday after another day of looking for Culolias around Tempe Town Lake and in the area north of Tempe Marketplace. Investigators said they would wait for a credible tip before resuming the search again.
Tempe police said they got a phone call Thursday night from a concerned resident who claimed seeing an object, resembling a person's silhouette, in the water northeast of the area that investigators had searched for three days.
Tempe police, along with ASU police and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, are expanding the search area north of Tempe Marketplace.
His mother, Grace Culolias, called ASU police Sunday about 5 p.m. to ask officers to conduct a welfare check, since she had not spoken to her son and was concerned.
On Monday, she called Tempe police and said she and her other sons were flying to Arizona from their home in California to help in the search. On Tuesday, the missing person investigation begun by ASU police transitioned to Tempe police. ASU detectives originally assigned are continuing to work in conjunction with Tempe police detectives.
About 2 p.m. Tuesday, family members found a red shoe at an embankment along the Rio Salado River/Tempe Town Lake, which runs north of the Tempe Marketplace. The missing teen's mother said she recognized it immediately. Tempe police said DNA on the shoe is still being processed.
"I saw the shoe and I immediately picked it up. I was shocked," Grace Culolias said.
Jack Culolias is described as 6' tall and has brown eyes and brown hair. His friends said they have been conducting search parties every night and hanging posters to raise awareness. Hardina said the teen's mother was worried about possible hazing because Jack Culolias was pledging to a fraternity.
A statement released Wednesday night by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon headquarters said Jack Culolias had been attending a chapter social event at Cadillac Ranch. The statement went on to say, "Sigma Alpha Epsilon offers its prayers and support for Culolias' family, friends and chapter brothers and hopes and prays for his safe return."
A page has also been set up to collect donations for Jack Culolias' family while they're away from their home and close to the investigation. To donate, click here.
Anyone with information is requested to please call Tempe police at 480-350-8311 or submit a tip on their website by clicking here.
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