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Salt Lake City ( 11 yr old brings gun to school for protection -Tells friends ) Arrested

A sixth-grader at West Kearns Elementary School near Salt Lake City, Utah, brought a gun to school on Monday, saying he wanted to protect himself and his friends after Friday's shooting in Newtown, Conn.

He "continues to assert that he brought the weapon to protect himself and his friends from a 'Connecticut-style [shooting],'" Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said.

Two of the 11-year-old's classmates told their teacher on Monday afternoon that the student had a gun. The teacher immediately "apprehended" the student and contacted the authorities, Horsley said. The boy is being charged with one count of possession of a firearm on school property and three counts of aggravated assault, for allegedly threatening some of his classmates.

He will be charged in the juvenile system and eventually will be transferred to another school.

YUMA Az ( YES drive your car or DRUGS over the fence ) Drugs wars -see photo

Welcome to the inherent looniness of the drug war. It has actually been a good year for Mexico, in at least one respect: the murder rate dropped precipitously along some stretches of the border. (Though whether this can be attributed to the kill-or-capture campaign of outgoing President Felipe Calderón is not at all clear. The largest cartel, the Sinaloa, vanquished a number of challengers during this period, and black-market monopolies are often more peaceful than the alternative.) But it was a colorful year as well, due to the systematic, try-anything-once eclecticism of the smugglers, and the antic game of Tom-and-Jerry escalation that they tend to play with law enforcement on both sides of the border.

1. On the Fence

“Show me a fifty-foot fence and I’ll show you a fifty-one-foot ladder,” a drug warrior once told me, and the cartels have long excelled at so-rudimentary-they’re-obvious methods of pushing product across the border. In this instance, a group of smugglers near Yuma, Arizona, tried to drive a Jeep right over the fence. “Ramps!” you can almost hear them saying beforehand. “We could use ramps!” If you could inscribe the Quixotic essence of the drug war in a single image, the photograph above might very well be it.

MEXICO ( 5 die in Shoot-out Suspects armed with AR-15 assault rifles )

5 die in Tamualipas

Monday, December 17, 2012 | Borderland Beat Reporterbadanov

A total of five armed suspects were killed in an encounter with a Mexican Army unit in Tamaulipas state Sunday, according to Mexican news accounts.

A wire dispatch originating from El Universal news daily reported that the gunfight took place at around 1310 hrs in Ciudad Victoria near the intersection of calles José Sulaiman Chagnon and Pamoran.

Ciudad Victoria is the state capital of Tamaulipas.

The incident involved two civilian vehicles one of them a 2012 Nissan Rogue SUV. Presumably, suspects in the second vehicle escaped the encounter. All five of the dead were inside the SUV. Soldiers also found five AR-15 rifles.

Two of the suspects were identified as Amado Gustavo Teran de la Fuente, 33, and Esau Shealtiel Cepeda Espinoza, 22. The other three were unidentified men in their 20s.

Illinois ( College students charged in DEATH- alcohol related ) Felony hazing

DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Nearly two dozen fraternity members at Northern Illinois University were charged Monday with hazing-related counts after a freshman was found dead at their fraternity house following a night of drinking.

DeKalb police and prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 22 members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity in DeKalb. Five members are charged with felony hazing, while the other 17 members are facing misdemeanor hazing charges.

Phone messages and emails sent to local and national fraternity officials were not immediately returned.

The warrants were filed after David Bogenberger, 19, was found unresponsive at the fraternity house early on Nov. 2. The DeKalb County Coroner's Office said toxicology results found his blood alcohol content was about five times the legal limit for driving.

The coroner ruled Bogenberger's cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia, with alcohol intoxication as a contributing cause.

The DeKalb Police Department said its investigation found the fraternity hosted an unsanctioned event on Nov. 1 that wasn't registered with the university or the fraternity's national chapter.

"The event that night involved the pledges rotating between several rooms in the fraternity house, being asked a series of questions, and then being provided cups of vodka and other liquor to drink," police said in a statement. "This resulted in the pledges drinking a large quantity of alcohol in about a two-hour time period."

Police said several other pledges reported getting sick and passing out due to excessive alcohol consumption.

In addition to the charges, NIU said 31 students are accused of violating the school's code of conduct. Those students could face penalties ranging from reprimand to expulsion.

Bogenberger's family said in a statement that they appreciate law enforcement professionals who investigated his death and "seek accountability for a horrible event."

"We have no desire for revenge," the family said. "Rather, we hope that some significant change will come from David's death. Alcohol poisoning claims far too many young, healthy lives.

"We must realize that young people can and do die in hazing rituals. Alcohol-involved hazing and initiation must end."

MEXICO (Juarez police chief ready to leave country ) No Safe place

Juarez police chief: "No safe place in Mexico for me"

By Lourdes Cárdenas / El Paso Timeselpasotimes.com

Posted: 12/17/2012 11:54:49 AM MST

Juarez Police Chief Julian Leyzaola (Jesus Alcazar / El Paso Times)

JUAREZ - Police Chief Julian Leyzaola - a career law-enforcement officer especially picked to reduce the once uncontrolled violence that tarnished the image of this city - is prepared to leave the country once his dangerous assignment ends in October. "There is no safe place in Mexico for me," said Leyzaola, who has worked in law enforcement in the military for 37 years. "Mexico is prohibited for me." During a lengthy interview with the El Paso Times, Leyzaola, who came to Juárez from Tijuana, talked about his job in a city once considered one of the world's most dangerous cities. After 20 months on the job, he feels satisfied because the number of homicides is declining: from March 2011, when he arrived, to November of this year, the number of homicides has declined every month. And 2012 is projected to close with fewer than 800 homicides compared with 1,956 homicides in 2011. Leyzaola, 54, and a lieutenant colonel of the Mexican Army, is credited with a remarkable reduction in crimes such as extortion, carjacking and kidnappings. The reduction was accomplished with a strategic plan that included the cleansing of the police department - 800 officers have been dismissed in his term - and regaining the neighborhoods that once were under control of criminal groups such as the Juárez and the Sinaloa drug cartels.
Even though the city is making a slow turnaround, Leyzaola is not without critics. In the past 20 months, he has been the target of two assassination attempts and accused of human-rights abuses.
"They (human rights organizations) have never given me the right to respond," he said. He said his job is to fight crime and in doing so, he has become "the bad guy of the movie." Leyzaola's job will end Oct. 10 - something he is looking forward to. "You don't know how big the responsibility of sitting here is," he said. "I don't know how many people would like to be here, but when the time to give my resignation comes, it will be a very happy day for me."