Flashermac Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 TIJUANA, Mexico â?? The bodies of four U.S. citizens were found strangled, beaten and stabbed in a van in this border city, two days after they reportedly left their Southern California homes for a night at the Mexican clubs, U.S. officials said Thursday. The victims, ages 19 to 23 years old, were found tied up on Saturday, but their deaths were not reported earlier because they were under investigation, said Fermin Gomez, an assistant state prosecutor in Baja California. U.S. consular officials in Tijuana said the victims â?? two men and two women from the San Diego and Chula Vista areas â?? were U.S. citizens. The state attorney general's office in Baja California said one of the women was Mexican. Their deaths are the latest in a string of violence in Tijuana that authorities blame on a bloody turf war between drug cartels. "I just don't think kids should be going to Tijuana right now," Chula Vista police Lt. Scott Arsenault told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "They ran into the wrong people, obviously." Bernard Gonzales, a spokesman for the Chula Vista Police Department, said a friend told the women's parents they were headed to nightclubs in Tijuana on Thursday night. They were reported missing the next day when they did not answer their cell phones. And you thought Pattaya was bad ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyinEwa/Perv Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 but their deaths were not reported earlier because they were under investigation Huh?? -were U.S. citizens. The state attorney general's office in Baja California said one of the women was Mexican. Double huh?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 << Mexican prosecutors said the victims had been bound and tortured â?? common tactics by Mexican drug gangs â?? before being left in a van in a dusty slum on the outskirts of Tijuana. [color:red]Jose Manuel Yepiz, a spokesman for the Baja California state prosecutor's office, said investigators were examining a threatening letter to one of the victims from a jail inmate in San Diego.[/color] Prosecutors said they had ruled out the possibility that the killings were a case of drug gangs targeting tourists. >> << Ramos said he had often told his daughter, [color:red]who was born in Tijuana but raised from a young age in the U.S.[/color], that Tijuana was too dangerous, and she assured him she was always careful. But Ramos said he didn't offer any warnings as his daughter got ready to go out with her friend Brianna on May 7, even as he watched a news program about killings in Tijuana on Mexican television. >> Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 Maybe the Chicago Club is off limits now? There are some tough places in TJ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 The Navy and Marines always had places off limits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 Odd, In Arizona this isn't news. Mexico is getting strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 The Navy and Marines always had places off limits. We would always check for what was off limits in TJ and then beat feet to get there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 ... since they weren't beheaded, not drug related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 The Navy and Marines always had places off limits. We would always check for what was off limits in TJ and then beat feet to get there! Was that u I saw one night in the Blue Fox eating some "dancer" out while she was on stage? :bangit: I recall the SP used to station personnel at the border for you guys coming back to the U.S. side. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Weren't me...must have been Flash... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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