Mexican trains, trucks hijacked in new crime wave

[Old Coot]

Source: Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – With Mexican law enforcement tied up attacking drug cartels, free-lance crime gangs have become more daring and sophisticated, hijacking trucks and trains and stealing massive loads of steel, coffee and beans.

These gangsters are armed not only with guns but heavy machinery to unload industrial materials and bulk agricultural goods, deftly passing them off to the black market.

Mexico's third largest steel producer, Altos Hornos de Mexico, or AHMSA, has been victim of nearly 40 robberies since January 2008, mostly along one stretch of deserted road in northern Mexico between the cities of Monterrey and Monclova.

"This wasn't happening before," AHMSA spokesman Francisco Orduna said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090528/wl_nm/us_mexico_crime

[proteus_lives]

1. Crime wave in Mexico!?!

"Runs over the window and checks outside"

Oh My God! The sky is blue!

[Zorra]

2. My house in Baja just got burglarized for the first time in 9 years.

Mexico has always been notorious for having large numbers of thieves, but it is getting way out of control now.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. sorry your house was robbed but, yeah, it's getting bad.

We use go across the border to TJ without a 2nd thought. Not anymore.