Colombia (Police seized 1.5 tons of Cocaine headed to the United States for the "Los Zetas" cartel )

Zetas lose 1.5 Tons of Cocaine in Colombia Bust

| Borderland Beat ReporterChivis

Borderland Beat

In 2012 Colombia has broken drug seizure record

Headed for the United States

Police in Cartagena have seized 1.5 tons of cocaine in a container that was to be shipped to Honduras, en route to the US, local media sources reported Monday.

El Universal reported the driver of the truck, Alexander Valencia Enrique Navas, was arrested in the process of delivering the container to the city's maritime terminal, and is to be charged for drug trafficking and possession of narcotics.

The cocaine has an estimated value of $5 million, and has come on the heels of an announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos that 2012 has already witnessed the largest amount of drugs seized by police in the nation's history.

The 1.5 tons of cocaine seized by Colombian police on Monday in Cartagena was allegedly intended for the notorious Mexican drug cartel, "Los Zetas", reported local media on Tuesday.

"The initial investigation reveals that the cargo belonged to Los Urabeños and was being shipped to Los Zetas," said Colombia's Police Director General Jose Roberto Leon Riano.

The drugs were supposedly going to be shipped to Puerto Cortes in Honduras before arriving in Mexico.

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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.