Have you heard the one about the casino and the hitman?
Posted by: admin // Category: Casino NewsI know it sounds like the set-up for a bad joke but this is reality in Mexico last week. Mexican police say they chased a suspected drug cartel hit man through the streets of Tijuana and into a crowded casino, arresting him and an accomplice after hundreds of frightened gamblers were ordered to the floor.
Mexico’s federal Public Security Department said the suspects arrested Friday are believed to be Ruben Rios Estrada, a key gunman for the Arellano-Felix cocaine cartel, and Hector Manuel Mora Mendoza, another suspected gang member. They were flown to Mexico City under heavy guard, the agency said.
Federal troops and policemen chased the suspects at high speed through the streets before they fled into the casino, the department said. Federal agents caught them as they gambled, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported, citing witness accounts.
The casino company , owned by former Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon , complained to local newspapers that the raid by masked, heavily armed police terrified and endangered some 1,300 customers.
Federal police said they found a shotgun, two pistols, hundreds of bullets and five shirts emblazoned with police insignia in the suspects’ vehicle. Sounds like they got their man just in the nick-of-time.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
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