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Nogales Candidates Ride the 2018 Morena Wave
Left-Wing Political Party Ushers in New Electoral Era for Mexico In a resounding rejection of the status quo in Mexican politics and society, a political alliance of left-wing and conservative right-wing political parties won the 2018 presidential election in Mexico...
Murder Victim Found Beaten, Shot and Wrapped in Blankets
40th Homicide of 2018 in Nogales, Mexico According to published reports, at approximately 7:00 a.m. yesterday morning a resident of the Colonia Jardines de la Montaña neighborhood in Nogales, Mexico reported a body located under an oak tree on Lago Azul Street. From...
Sonora Will Only Ban Alcohol Sales on July 1
“Ley Seca” Dry Law will only be applied on July 1 Sonora’s Director General of Alcoholic Beverages Zaira Fernández Morales has announced that the “ley seca” (dry law) that bans alcohol sales on the day of and the day before a federal election will only be...
Prescription Drug Smuggler Arrested at Nogales International Border
Pills Found in Soda Bottle, Underwear A 58-year-old woman was detained on June 2 after customs agents noticed abnormalities in a soda bottle she carried as she was trying to cross the border from Nogales, Mexico into the United States at the DeConcini Port of Entry in...
May 2018 Nogales Border Drug Busts: 12 Arrests in 10 Days
CBP May Drug Seizures Total Nearly $2.1 Million Summary and Analysis During the month of May 2018 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made 12 arrests for alleged drug smuggling during 10 days at the Nogales international border ports of entry. Six women and six...
Nogales Travel Advisory – July 2018 Mexican Elections
Impact on border traffic not known Update: On Thursday, June 28, Sonora’s Director General of Alcoholic Beverages Zaira Fernández Morales announced that the dry laws would be further amended to ban the sale of alcohol only on Sunday, July 1. Bars, clubs,...
22-Year-Old Man Gunned Down with AK-47 in Nogales, Mexico
Assault weapon used in street slaying A 22-year-old Nogales man was found dead at 6:40 p.m. on June 24 in the Arivechi Street and Avenida del Pino area in the Colonia Pueblo Nuevo neighborhood of Nogales, Mexico. The victim, identified as “David F.S.,” was killed by a...
Nogales Border Patrol Agent Indicted for Bodily Harm, Lying
Allegedly hit migrant twice with truck and lied about it Friday, June 22, 2018 A Nogales Border Patrol agent was indicted on May 30 at the U.S. District Court in Tucson on charges of causing bodily harm by allegedly ramming his Border Patrol vehicle into a migrant he...
Nogales Man Killed in Fusillade of 10 Bullets Near Border
Deadly Attack Near Nogales International Border in Colonia Buenos Aires Friday, June 22, 2018 Sonora newspaper El Imparcial reports that a 39-year-old Nogales man was slain in a hail of 10 bullets on June 16 near the Nogales international border in the Nogales, Mexico...
Nogales Homicides Up 20 Percent During the First Half of 2018
And Percentage of Increase Could Grow Friday, June 22, 2018 According to statistics compiled by Sonora newspaper El Imparcial and published on June 21, homicide rates in Nogales, Mexico have increased by 20 percent over the same period in 2017. And that percentage...
