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Readers are saying that Meredith Romney, the LDS leader in Chihuahua, was kidnapped today by masked gunmen. Meredith is a cousin of  Mitt Romney, the former Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency in the 2008 elections. If the rumor is true, I wonder how much of the motive to Romney's kidnapping is related to pure, brazen profit as opposed to revenge or a vengeance hit. The example's been made. In late May, a 16 year old boy from the Mennonite community in Chihuahua was kidnapped for ransom. Hundreds of Mormons gathered to demand the government intervene. The boy was later released after a small ransom was paid. Se sabe algo?

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Those fine little rumors just keep going. Clearly there's something here. The Mexican Army arrested four men a few minutes ago. The rumor is that at least one of those men is a big fish. Before that arrest was announced, a columnist from some Mexico City newspaper wrote a brief saying that Eduardo Teodoro Garcia's been arrested in Tijuana.

Last Friday, the rumor that Teo had been arrested was circulating through Hermosillo.

Something's up and it should be good.

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A 41-year-old woman involved with the Minuteman vigilante groups that hunt illegal migrants through the Arizona desert has been arrested for pulling a home invasion and murdering a father and his nine year old daughter last month.

Then it gets ugly and weird. According to the Pima County Sheriff's Office, Shawna Forde, 43, was arrested south of Sierra Vista, Ariz. today. Her accomplices, Albert Gaxiola and Jason Eugene Bush, were also arrested. Bush was picked up in Kingman on June 11 and Gaxiola in Tucson. The father and daughter, Raul and Brisenia Flores, were murdered May 30.

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The rumor floating around these parts is that El Teo has been detained. Teodoro Garcia Simental, the principal rival of the Arellano Felix family in Tijuana, has been waging war in that city for two years. Don't yet know that it's true, but if it is, hijole.

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Is Caborca, Sonora, changing hands? If so, the latest would-be owners want everybody out, the narcos, the cops and the mayors from every town in the Pinacate Desert. And the new guys are backed by Macho Prieto himself, Mayo Zambada's security chief.

What happened here last week was a sheer massacre, the carnage going far beyond what now passes for normal along the Mexican border. (Be warned: Gross).

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