20 Year Old becomes Sheriff of lawless Mexican town

[Darth Wagtaros]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39760545/ns/world_news-americas/

A 20-year-old criminology student has been named the chief of police in  one of the most dangerous municipalities in Mexico's violence-wracked  northern state of Chihuahua.

Marisol Valles Garcia, the only person to accept the post, took charge  of public security for Guadalupe Distrito Bravo on Monday, according to  radio station network Notisistema. The district has a population of  9,148 residents, according to newspaper La Jornada, and comes with at  least one police car and two pairs of policemen, Notisistema reported.

The state of Chihuahua has borne the brunt of spiraling drug-related  violence that has left around 28,000 dead throughout Mexico in the last  four years. Guadalupe's former mayor was assassinated in June, and local  police have been kidnapped and murdered. At least eight people were  slain in the last week alone in Guadalupe, news.com.au reported.

She has not discarded the possibility of creating a cycling police force, according to Notisistema.                 

Poor kid will be toast within a month. 

[Caliga]

That article is a little behind the curve.  IIRC she's already quit and since fled norte.

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, she's missing, and last heard hiding in the US trying for political asylum.  Looks like college students ain't so dumb after all.

[Grey Fox]

That's good idea.

[The Brain]

I'd hit it.

[DGuller]

I'd hit it.

[KRonn]

This woman fled to the US, seeking asylum. Unsettling that this is going on in Mexican towns. There are more reports in the news of lawless towns, taken over by drug cartels. Scary stuff, and brutal for the Mexican people caught up in it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20039436-504083.html

March 4, 2011 4:01 PM
Marisol Valles Garcia flees Mexican town after becoming police chief, says report

(CBS) Marisol Valles Garcia, who was called Mexico's bravest woman after becoming police chief of the small Mexican town of Praxedis, has reportedly fled and is seeking asylum in the United States.

A relative told Agence France-Presse on Thursday that Valles Garcia, 21-year-old mother and student, "received death threats from a criminal group that wanted to force her to work for them," and that she "went to the United States along with two relatives and will seek asylum."

However, an official from the town of Praxedis, which is across the border from Fort Hancock in Texas, denied that their police chief was leaving.

Town secretary Andres Morales told the El Paso Times that Valles Garcia had asked for some personal days off to tend to her child, but is expected to be back at work on Monday.

As for the reports of her seeking asylum, "Right now, these are rumors," he said.

After the police chief of Praxedis was kidnapped in 2009, and his head deposited outside the police station a few days later, no one stepped up to fill his shoes until Valles Garcia agreed to fill the vacancy.

"I took the risk because I want my son to live in a different community to the one we have today. I want people to be able to go out without fear, as it was before," Valles Garcia said during her swearing-in ceremony last October.

Valles Garcia's departure comes just a few months after Erika Gandara, the only law officer in the border town of Guadalupe, was kidnapped, her whereabouts still unknown.

[jimmy olsen]

That article is from October 20th Wags.

[Razgovory]

That article is from October 20th Wags.

My God.  It's from the Future.

[Darth Wagtaros]

That article is from October 20th Wags.

And she is toast.  My prediction came true. 

What can I say, I am not Timmay with the news spammin'.

[derspiess]

"I took the risk because I want my son to live in a different community to the one we have today..."

Pretty clever way to accomplish that.  Put yourself in an extremely dangerous situation, flee to the US requesting asylum, stay in the US indefinitely.  There you go: different community.

[Caliga]

What, no Jaron joke yet?

[derspiess]

What, no Jaron joke yet?

Speaking of which, I took this pic the other day in the Target parking lot down in Florence (KY for those unfamiliar):

[DontSayBanana]

And she is toast.  My prediction came true. 

What can I say, I am not Timmay with the news spammin'.

I'm just amazed it took 4 hours for the Timmy crack.  I was expecting it as soon as I saw the past-sellby thing going on this morning.

[Eddie Teach]

So Wags has taken to resurrecting old news stories I guess.