Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Lone Female Police Officer In Mexican Town Still Missing

From The El Paso Times: The only police officer in the village of Guadalupe had still not surfaced Monday, four days after being abducted by gunmen who stormed into her home.
Erika Gándara, 28, was the Mexican border village's entire police force, taking a job no one else wanted in the farming communities in the violent Valley of Juárez.

It doesn't look like the Chihuaua State Police are not taking it seriously: A spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said Monday that authorities were aware of the Gándara incident but there was still no official report of the kidnapping.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/juarez/ci_16955004?source=most_viewed
Too bad that the elite Mexican police (and there is some) could not take over the case.
Maybe the town could be involved like this town in Mexico: Two 17-year-olds suspected of kidnapping a girl never got their day in court.
Instead, hundreds of townspeople beat them to death, mimicking the vigilante justice -- or injustice -- of a century ago.
Their show of force and fury occurred because residents said they did not trust the system to work properly. So they took the boys' lives on a late-summer day. That day of vigilante justice has come to define this town of 10,000....

The vigilantes who attacked the alleged kidnapping gang became the police force's helping hand. Because they are allies of law enforcement, people have regained trust in officers, said Arturo Chávez, vice president of the citizen committee involved in a public-safety movement.
His group divided the city into sectors led by eight residents. Another change was a warning system. A siren attached to a police communication tower alerts residents whenever a kidnapping occurs.
"When the siren goes off, all the townsfolk go out and take places," Chávez said.
Upon instruction, residents block all four entrances to the town. Only a false alarm and a training drill have caused the siren to go off since the mob killings.
The town government dug a moat 3 feet deep and wide to prevent kidnappers from escaping through the surrounding dirt roads and fields of red chile and cotton.
"This was something quick we had to do to scare them away," Chávez said.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_16955394?source=most_viewed
Anyways, please pray for the police officer and for a safe outcome for her.

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