EP County Sheriff: Mexican Army Was Involved In Drug Standoff
EL PASO, TX. – While everyone has a theory about who’s behind this week’s border standoff in Hudspeth county, one of El Paso’s leading law enforcement bosses ‘knows’ who behind the incursion.
El Paso County Sheriff Leo Samaniego believes the initial report to be the best representation of what happened. Sheriff Samaniego tells ABC-7, “Based on the history of what has been going on … I would have to say it is a [Mexican] military unit that was involved.”
Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez, has sent a diplomatic note to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanding that Washington “tone down” comments on Mexico’s security and immigration problems.
In an earlierdiplomatic note, US Ambassador in Mexico Tony Garza officially demanded the Mexican government to “fully investigate” the incident. Secretary of Foreign Affairs Derbez, suggested the men in green may have been American soldiers disguised as Mexican troops.
On Monday, US law enforcement officers saw armed men dressed in Mexican military clothing draw their guns to protect drug smugglers. Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Deputies started chasing three suspicious SUV’s on I-10, near Sierra Blanca. The chase then headed south.
At the Rio Grande, one SUV blew a tire and Deputies say a HUMVEE tried to tow the truck into Mexico, as men dressed in military clothes pointed guns towards them. Several men unloaded bundles from the vehicle, then set it on fire.
