BROWNSVILLE, Texas – The defense department says it is investigating reports of a Mexican military helicopter seen flying in Texas.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez says several people reported seeing the aircraft on Sunday flying over an RV park near Zapata, some 100 miles northwest of McAllen on the border with Mexico.
Border Patrol spokesman Jason Darling says the Mexican military is conducting operations near Zapata along the Rio Grande. U.S. Department of Defense spokeswoman Maj. Tanya Bradsher says the flyover is under review.
The press relations department duty officer at Mexico's Defense Department told The Associated Press Friday that she has no information on the reports. A Mexican military helicopter was also spotted March 10 over Zapata County.
What if a US citizen is fired upon by these choppers? What if a US citizen takes one down?
There's only a few reasons why they are doing this-
■The choppers are dropping drugs.
■The US Military is horribly inept at protecting our border.
■The US Military is testing citizens to see how we would react to foreign invasion.
■We are being invaded by Mexico.
Mexican helicopter spotted in Texas airspace
By AP News
Friday, April 02, 2010
The defense department says it is investigating reports of a Mexican military helicopter seen flying in Texas.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez says several people reported seeing the aircraft on Sunday flying over an RV park near Zapata, some 100 miles northwest of McAllen on the border with Mexico.
Border Patrol spokesman Jason Darling says the Mexican military is conducting operations near Zapata along the Rio Grande.
U.S. Department of Defense spokeswoman Maj. Tanya Bradsher says the flyover is under review.
The press relations department duty officer at Mexico's Defense Department told The Associated Press Friday that she has no information on the reports.
A Mexican military helicopter was also spotted March 10 over Zapata County.
domingo, 9 de mayo de 2010
Mexican military helicopter flew into Valley
Mexican military copter over U.S. neighborhood
By Lynn Brezosky and Gary Martin
- Express-News Web Posted: 03/12/2010 12:00 CST
BROWNSVILLE — The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings, and rumors of such killings, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said he'd reviewed photos of the chopper flown by armed personnel Tuesday over a residential area known as Falcon Heights-Falcon Village near the binational Falcon Lake, just south of the Starr-Zapata county line. He said the helicopter appeared to have the insignia of the Mexican navy.
“It's always been said that the Mexican military does in fact ... that there have been incursions,” Gonzalez said. “But this is not New Mexico or Arizona. Here we've got a river; there's a boundary line. And then of course having Falcon Lake, Falcon Dam, it's a lot wider. It's not just a trickle of a river, it's an actual dam. You know where the boundary's at.”
The sighting came amid ongoing fighting between the Gulf Cartel and its former enforcers, Los Zetas. The mounting death toll and crisis of fear in cities across from the Texas border have drawn global attention, as has a news blackout in affected cities due to the kidnappings of eight Mexican journalists, at least one of whom was killed.
As violence continued Thursday with a highway shootout in Tamaulipas, a Senate subcommittee in Washington heard testimony that drug cartels are trying to infiltrate U.S. agencies along the border, with corruption cases among Homeland Security personnel on the rise.
In the past two years, there have been 400 public corruption cases involving federal, state and local law enforcement agents originating from the Southwest border region, Kevin Perkins, FBI assistant director for criminal investigations, told the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on preparedness.
James Tomsheck, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection assistant commissioner, told the panel the drug cartels operating in Mexico are making a concerted effort to infiltrate CBP, and the agency is responding with more screening of job applicants with polygraph tests and background investigations. Corruption cases were opened last year on 576 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents.
In addition to the highway battle, news from Tamaulipas on Thursday included a 25-year-old man found dead on a roadside in Miguel Alemán. On Wednesday, three people died in one or two gun battles in Reynosa.
Four other deaths have been reported since Saturday in the cities of Mier, Camargo and Miguel Alemán.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/state/Mexican_military_helicopter_seen_over_US_home.html
By Lynn Brezosky and Gary Martin
- Express-News Web Posted: 03/12/2010 12:00 CST
BROWNSVILLE — The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings, and rumors of such killings, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said he'd reviewed photos of the chopper flown by armed personnel Tuesday over a residential area known as Falcon Heights-Falcon Village near the binational Falcon Lake, just south of the Starr-Zapata county line. He said the helicopter appeared to have the insignia of the Mexican navy.
“It's always been said that the Mexican military does in fact ... that there have been incursions,” Gonzalez said. “But this is not New Mexico or Arizona. Here we've got a river; there's a boundary line. And then of course having Falcon Lake, Falcon Dam, it's a lot wider. It's not just a trickle of a river, it's an actual dam. You know where the boundary's at.”
The sighting came amid ongoing fighting between the Gulf Cartel and its former enforcers, Los Zetas. The mounting death toll and crisis of fear in cities across from the Texas border have drawn global attention, as has a news blackout in affected cities due to the kidnappings of eight Mexican journalists, at least one of whom was killed.
As violence continued Thursday with a highway shootout in Tamaulipas, a Senate subcommittee in Washington heard testimony that drug cartels are trying to infiltrate U.S. agencies along the border, with corruption cases among Homeland Security personnel on the rise.
In the past two years, there have been 400 public corruption cases involving federal, state and local law enforcement agents originating from the Southwest border region, Kevin Perkins, FBI assistant director for criminal investigations, told the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on preparedness.
James Tomsheck, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection assistant commissioner, told the panel the drug cartels operating in Mexico are making a concerted effort to infiltrate CBP, and the agency is responding with more screening of job applicants with polygraph tests and background investigations. Corruption cases were opened last year on 576 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents.
In addition to the highway battle, news from Tamaulipas on Thursday included a 25-year-old man found dead on a roadside in Miguel Alemán. On Wednesday, three people died in one or two gun battles in Reynosa.
Four other deaths have been reported since Saturday in the cities of Mier, Camargo and Miguel Alemán.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/state/Mexican_military_helicopter_seen_over_US_home.html
Reportan incursión de Helicóptero Militar Mexicano invadiendo espacio aéreo Texano.
Increible pero cierto, autoridades y población del condado Zapata, en el edo. de Texas, USA; reportan varias y continuas incursiones aéreas de helicópteros camuflageados y con bandera mexicana sobre varias poblaciones cercanas a la frontera con México. El incidente fué reportado el 10 de marzo de 2010, pero hacen mención en que sucedio por lo menos 3 veces antes en fechas cercanas. Dichas incursiones aéreas fueron realizadas de entre 100 y 120 millas nauticas (algo así como 200 km.) al noroeste de Mc Allen, Texas.
La violencia desatada en varias regiones mexicanas, así como las actividades ilicitas de varios cárteles de las drogas, han desatado las suspicacia de la población y vecindarios de la zona residencial de Falcon Heights-Falcon Village, de hecho refieren sus dudas sobre las actividades de los militares mexicanos y la posibilidad de que esten incursionando espacio aéreo norteamericano con la intención de descargar cargamentos de droga.
El Sheriff del condado Zapata, Sigifredo Gonzalez refiere a que los helicópteros vistos han realizado inclusive vuelos estacionarios sobre varios vecindarios de la región. Existen evidencias en foto y video donde se aprecia la silueta de un helicóptero tipo ruso Mi-8, y el cual debe pertenecer a la Fuerza Aérea Mexicana y/o probabalemente a la Armada de México.
Foto de helicóptero Mi-8 sobre el condado Zapata,Texas.
Todo apunta a ser un Mi-8 de la "Gloriosa" FAM
Es claro que la opinión generalizada entre la población es de que la corrupción en México puede involucrar a miembros del ejercito y fuerza aérea, lo que ven como una invasión de su soberanía debido a una muy probable cooperación de autoridades mexicanas con los barones de las drogas.
La pesima fama de las autoridades mexicanas, acrecenta los muy variados rumores.
La vocera del Departamento de defensa de los Estados Unidos, Maj. Tanya Bradsher , refiere que tales sobrevuelos son ilegales y ya se encuentran en investigación.
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