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January 19 - 20, 2012 - Canadian Woman badly beaten in Mazatlan - A Mexican man has been arrested and will likely face an attempted homicide charge in the brutal beating of a Canadian woman at a five-star resort in Mazatlan. Sheila Nabb, 37, was found unconscious last weekend in an elevator at the resort, where she was staying with her husband. She had apparently left her hotel room Thursday night and was later found unconcious, beaten and bloody Friday morning in a hotel elevator. www.ottawasun.com www.cbc.ca news.nationalpost.com
January 25, 2012 Strator's year end report on Mexican Cartels - predicting more violence for Guadalajara in 2012. Article temporarily free and in English - www.stratfor.com
January 25, 2012 Two arrested in death of Canadian Robin Wood in Cihuatlán - article in Spanish www.informador.com.mx
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January 22, 2012 Two Killed while waiting for the bus (Article in Spanish translated using google translate:) Tragically, a woman and a child died after being hit by a vehicle whose driver was able to be stopped by the Municipal Police.
The accident happened on January 22, about 8:40 pm, on the road Chapala-Jocotepec, off the town of La Canacinta (west Ajijic). Apparently, women, children and a child who is in critical condition at a hospital in Guadalajara, were trying to cross the road when they were hit by the vehicle.
Due to the impact, Berenice Ramos Ramos, 12, a resident of the street Real, in the town's Canacinta had bruises on the skull, and fractures in the lower and upper extremities, and he was rushed to the Old Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, where he is hospitalized.
Unofficially, the now deceased were identified as Giovanni Cesar Ramos, age 3 and grandmother Rosario Ramos, 54, both residing at The Canacinta. Everything indicates that the alleged perpetrator of the accident drove while intoxicated and hit the people. After what happened, the driver tried to flee, but managed to be arrested by municipal police units.
Miguel Angel Martinez Olvera, 43, who drove a black colored vehicle license plates HYT-30-52 was arrested and made available to the Public Ministry to determine their legal status.
Dismayed by the incident, residents of La Canacinta ask the authorities of the Sub Regional Transport Roads and greater vigilance on the road, because in addition to lack of signage, people drive their vehicles while intoxicated and speeding, meaning a risk to residents. Article in Spanish: www.paginaquesiselee.com.mx
January 28, 2012 A leader of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel arrested in Zapopan, Abundio Gaytan Mendoza, alias "El Guero Abundio", identified as one of the leaders of the criminal organization and responsible for planning kidnappings and extortion, in addition to "the collection of floor" entrepreneurs. He was a coordinator of the sale and distribution of drugs in the area.......According to a statement from the Federal Ministry of Public Security (SSPF) confirmed that the New Generation Jalisco Cartel emerged after the death of Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, alias " Nacho Coronel ", who was leader of the Pacific Cartel, in the State of Jalisco. "Lines of Intelligence and Research found that this criminal group has influence in the eastern state of Jalisco and the Southern and South-west of the State of Colima, "reads the statement. Article in Spanish www.informador.com.mx
This is not crime related but still important - It's flu time - and so far 36 cases of swine flu A/H1N1 had been identified in Guadalajara. Eleven of 36 cases of swine flu cases were from the staff at the Old Civil Hospital "Fray Antonio Alcalde" in Guadalajara. Probably a good hospital to avoid right now. For more info www.lapoliticaeslapolitica.blogspot.com (note - The 2011-2012 flu vaccine protects against an influenza A H3N2 virus, an influenza B virus and the 2009 A H1N1 virus).
January 21, 2012 - The Community Service Initiative is now on facebook -www.facebook.com Send them a friend request to receive updates.
January 21, 2012 - Expat, Larry Allen, Missing from small village (Puerto Corona) on southside of Lake since January 1 - per discussion on Chapala.com. Foul play is suspected. www.chapala.com.
January 20, 2012 A dozen couples of Irish nationality who have been residing temporarily in the lakeside area while attempting to adopt Mexican infants have been identified by Jalisco authorities in connection with the investigation of an alleged child-trafficking ring. Since the case broke late last week, state law enforcement has rounded up seven women and two men, all Mexican nationals from the Guadalajara metro area, for their possible involvement in an international adoption racket that appears to have gone amok after smooth sailing for close to a decade. While so far none of these individuals has been brought up on formal charges, all have been detained as witnesses in the matter. www.guadalajarareporter.com
January 20, 2012 Arthur Marquez Martinez of Chapala and a teenager were arrested murdering David Williams Reitz in Puerto Vallarta last November when they went to visit him. Prior to moving to Puerto Vallarta in November, Mr Reitz, 65, lived in San Antonio Tlayacapan. Click here to read the article in Spanish.
Chapala, Jalisco (17/ENE/2012) .- Two brothers, residents of the township of Chapala, were arrested because they were assured 12 doses of the drug known as crystal. Article in Spanish: www.informador.com.mx
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If you, expat or Mexican, have been a victim of a crime in the Lake Chapala area; or if you are a friend or neighbor of a victim, please let us know what happened so that we can publish the information so that others know what is occurring. This does not take the place of reporting the crime to Mexican Authorities - which we hope you will do.
What if someone tries to break into your house - and destroys your gate or breaks a window - but doesn't succeed. Do you consider that crime? We do. Would you report it to the police? Would the Ministerio Publico allow you to file a Denuncia? The answer in both cases is probably no unless you actually saw the person/s. Would your neighbors or Fracc want to know? The answer is probably yes. They would prefer that you not keep the problem a secret so that they can be more alert.
The police are here to catch people in the act of commiting crimes. At this time, the information they publish is the number of arrests they have made - which is different from the number of crimes reported to them; and they do not categorize by type of crime committed - for example: was the perp arrested because he was drunk or because he killed someone; nor do they care about the nationality of the victim or perp. All that information stays anonymous. The requirement to publish that type of information does not exist at that level.
This website tries to fill the gap - by providing detailed information about what crimes are being committed at Lakeside. Because the website is in English, the audience is expats - but this does not exclude Mexicans from reporting also - a crime at Lakeside is a crime at Lakeside. The one exception is Narco Violence - that is not within our scope and is usually well reported elsewhere.
The only way we can get that information is if you or a knowledgeable neighbor or friend reports the crime - be it an attempted breakin or the theft of personal property from your vehicle. A criminal act is a criminal act.
And who else cares? The Secretaria de Seguridad Pubilcia's office for the State of Jalisco also cares, and they have asked us to start sending copies of reports to them (Your personal information is always keep anonoymous - we remove it before we publish the information on the website - or forward to Public Security). Their goals are to be kept informed and develop a map with crime hot spots and act accordingly. As of December 9, 2011, we will also keep the Chapala Police Department informed of new reports.
So please -take just a few minutes to report a crime if it happened to you or a neighbor or a friend. The community cares and wants to know. And Jalisco Public Security cares and wants to know.
What we do not report is accusations against specific businesses or individuals when the Ministerio has not pronounced a guilty verdict, nor do we include reports where the person could not file a denuncia. Here are two examples: one person reported that a clerk had written down their credit card number and had made fraudulent charges with that credit card. We could only recommend that the person file a denunica with the ministerio to determine guilt. If that person was found guilty by the ministerio, we would add the incident to the website - but not until. Another example was a person that sent us a report about people picnicing on their lawn. We didn't feel that the person could file a report at the ministerio about this - probably not a crime - so we elected not to add the incident to the website. Likewise, if you want to accuse your gardener of breaking in to your house, we will add the break in to the website - but delete references to the gardener until such time was the ministerio finds the gardener guilty. These incidents are not common, but do happen - and both examples are true stories.
We recognize that when you are a victim of a crime, it is traumatic. And we thank you for taking the time to send us a report so that others may be more watchful.
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