Bodies of Australian surfers found in Sinaloa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3341085/Inside-Mexican-city-Sinaloa-known-Cemetery-cartels-rule-murders-rife.html?ito=social-facebook
Forum Discussion
I do not want to guess at any of this - enough speculation already. But based on the following quotes from the provided web addresses it would appear at least one of the crooks told what happened as the authorities seem to have info only someone who was there would know - unless authorities are making it up.
As far as how they were caught - unfortunately in this case and with past cases it seems when crime happens to tourists they send in the A-Team who are specialists at getting results - and at getting suspects to talk. But that would be speculation on my part.
I think at least one of the articles I read said there was an accomplice at the toll booth watching for possible victims. He called ahead to the waiting phony cops.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2015/12/sinaloa-arrests-made-in-australian.html#more
According to prosecutors, a lookout for the gang spotted the van before it got to Navolato and advised his accomplices it was a likely target.
The thieves apparently stopped the van after it passed a toll booth, as the two Australians drove south through Sinaloa toward Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city.
Prosecutors said the thieves, traveling in an SUV, forced the van to stop. Coleman purportedly struggled with the thieves, and one of them shot Coleman, but he didn't die immediately. The van was then driven to a rural road, where both victims were apparently shot to death and one member of the gang lit the van on fire.
http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-arrests-three-suspected-murders-australian-surfers-224845152.html
The van belonging to Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman was stopped on November 21 by a gang driving a car that flashed police-like lights on a road in Sinaloa, said chief state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez.
The suspects shot a long-haired man in the face when he resisted the robbery, Higuera told reporters.
The robbers killed the second man, drove the vehicle to another location and "set fire to the van with two bodies inside," Higuera said.
- Dressed as cops -
Municipal and federal police uniforms were seized from the suspects, who wore them to commit highway robberies, the prosecutor said. One of the gang members worked as a lookout, notifying accomplices when he saw vehicles that could be robbed.
As far as how they were caught - unfortunately in this case and with past cases it seems when crime happens to tourists they send in the A-Team who are specialists at getting results - and at getting suspects to talk. But that would be speculation on my part.
I think at least one of the articles I read said there was an accomplice at the toll booth watching for possible victims. He called ahead to the waiting phony cops.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2015/12/sinaloa-arrests-made-in-australian.html#more
According to prosecutors, a lookout for the gang spotted the van before it got to Navolato and advised his accomplices it was a likely target.
The thieves apparently stopped the van after it passed a toll booth, as the two Australians drove south through Sinaloa toward Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city.
Prosecutors said the thieves, traveling in an SUV, forced the van to stop. Coleman purportedly struggled with the thieves, and one of them shot Coleman, but he didn't die immediately. The van was then driven to a rural road, where both victims were apparently shot to death and one member of the gang lit the van on fire.
http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-arrests-three-suspected-murders-australian-surfers-224845152.html
The van belonging to Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman was stopped on November 21 by a gang driving a car that flashed police-like lights on a road in Sinaloa, said chief state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez.
The suspects shot a long-haired man in the face when he resisted the robbery, Higuera told reporters.
The robbers killed the second man, drove the vehicle to another location and "set fire to the van with two bodies inside," Higuera said.
- Dressed as cops -
Municipal and federal police uniforms were seized from the suspects, who wore them to commit highway robberies, the prosecutor said. One of the gang members worked as a lookout, notifying accomplices when he saw vehicles that could be robbed.
