Bodies of Australian surfers found in Sinaloa
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As an aside, Navaloto is a Municipio. Municipios in Mexico are similar to USA counties or in the case of Lousiana, Parishes. They can be huge. For instance the Municipio Ensenada in Baja California covers the area, north of Ensenada, all the way east to San Felipe, and down to the state line at Guerrero Negro.
News accounts can be tricky. An incident reported HERMOSILLO SONORA can actually have taken place 125 miles distant in the remote Sierras.
POLICIA MUNICIAL are like county sheriff deputies. Entering or leaving a town when you see a sign INICIO or TERMINO TRAMO de CARGO de SCT it means the beginning or the end of federal jurisdiction of the (Federal) highway. "End of the CHARGE of responsibility of the Secretaria de Comuniaciones Y Transportes". The jurisdiction of the PFP the federal highway patrol begins and ends at these signs and the beginning and end of transito (traffic) control from the POLICIA MUNICIPIO takes over. On non federal highways the policia municipio has control. In town the transitos (city cops) takes over.
Beto, told me, on the toll roads there is a single PFP cruiser for many miles so one can not make a return pass in hours. Crooks wait in the toll booth rest areas with either FRS radios or cell phones, time the cop's passage then a time window opens for them to operate hassle free.
During the daylight spontaneous patrols by the PFP, the SSP, Policia Municipios, and Military (plus Green Angels) make robbery a hell of a lot more risky. Petty crooks have to pay PISO to the local organized crime group, most of them don't and if they get caught and go to prison, and they haven't paid PISO their life is forfeit.
Petty crooks are torn between terror at having the feds move in on a murder or leaving the victims to identify them. In Mexico, ****RHAPE**** is considered a crime as bad as if nor worse than murder. That question enters my curiosity as to why the male victim resisted. We'll never know.
And my headlight bulbs will last a l-o-n-g time down here.
News accounts can be tricky. An incident reported HERMOSILLO SONORA can actually have taken place 125 miles distant in the remote Sierras.
POLICIA MUNICIAL are like county sheriff deputies. Entering or leaving a town when you see a sign INICIO or TERMINO TRAMO de CARGO de SCT it means the beginning or the end of federal jurisdiction of the (Federal) highway. "End of the CHARGE of responsibility of the Secretaria de Comuniaciones Y Transportes". The jurisdiction of the PFP the federal highway patrol begins and ends at these signs and the beginning and end of transito (traffic) control from the POLICIA MUNICIPIO takes over. On non federal highways the policia municipio has control. In town the transitos (city cops) takes over.
Beto, told me, on the toll roads there is a single PFP cruiser for many miles so one can not make a return pass in hours. Crooks wait in the toll booth rest areas with either FRS radios or cell phones, time the cop's passage then a time window opens for them to operate hassle free.
During the daylight spontaneous patrols by the PFP, the SSP, Policia Municipios, and Military (plus Green Angels) make robbery a hell of a lot more risky. Petty crooks have to pay PISO to the local organized crime group, most of them don't and if they get caught and go to prison, and they haven't paid PISO their life is forfeit.
Petty crooks are torn between terror at having the feds move in on a murder or leaving the victims to identify them. In Mexico, ****RHAPE**** is considered a crime as bad as if nor worse than murder. That question enters my curiosity as to why the male victim resisted. We'll never know.
And my headlight bulbs will last a l-o-n-g time down here.
