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2009-05-19 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-19 17:03|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Police say his 2006 kidnapping was evidence of a growing trend in Phoenix: drug and human traffickers abducting each other for ransoms or retribution.

Well...boo hoo.

Posted by tu3031 2009-05-19 17:23|| 2009-05-19 17:23|| Front Page Top

#2 If the trend continues, Phoenix will record an increase in kidnapping for a fourth straight year.

More frustrating is that the numbers represent only a third, maybe less, of the city's kidnappings, said Sgt. Tommy Thompson, a police spokesman with 16 years of drug enforcement experience. Most kidnappings aren't reported, he said, because the victims are generally smugglers, drug dealers or illegal immigrants -- or some combination of the three.

Welcome to Mexico City North or Cuidad de Mexico del Norte.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-19 19:18|| 2009-05-19 19:18|| Front Page Top

#3 <obvious>
Maybe you guys should build a border fence or something?
</obvious>

Posted by Bright Pebbles the pedantic 2009-05-19 21:57|| 2009-05-19 21:57|| Front Page Top

#4 "the victims are generally smugglers, drug dealers or illegal immigrants -- or some combination of the three"

Which word is out of place among "smugglers," "drug dealers," and "illegal aliens"?

"Victim" doesn't quite fit in there somehow....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-19 22:33|| 2009-05-19 22:33|| Front Page Top

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