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Two civilian volunteers with the Mexican military were kidnapped by a commando and a third escaped in the hills west of the Mariposa port of entry Monday, El Imparcial reported. The volunteers, part of a citizen's watch group, were kidnapped by a commando after they detained a suspicious individual out near the cattle export station west of the shipping port. The area is rife with border bandits, narcos and gnarly cops with itchy trigger fingers. The third man, a former Grupo Beta agent, ran into the hills and called for help. One source I spoke with in Nogales last night finds it ... interesting ... how fast police responded to the kidnapping. I'm not terribly surprised, but if local cops are hitting at the Mexican Army, we're in for some frenetic times in Nogales.

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Occasionally, someone's comment on The Border Report is unique enough to warrant its own story.

This is a note I received from a reader, a former U.S. National Guard recruiter writing in defense of his colleagues, now serving a prison sentence in the largest sting operation in this history of the FBI, Operation Lively Green.

The charges involved should have merited multiple years in prison; but the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona, then under prosecutor Paul Charlton, turned the cases down after discovering that several of the defendants and the FBI's informants sexually assaulted a prostitute in a Las Vegas hotel room, told the FBI agents about the assault and were told to eliminate the evidence. In early 2007, the Bush Administration fired Charlton along with seven other federal prosecutors.

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