MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – Authorities in the border state of Nuevo Leon are investigating the shooting death of a state police investigator killed by Mexican federal agents. The shooting took place during a rescue operation in an attempt to save an undercover state police officer who had been kidnapped by a team of gunmen. It remains unclear if the agent was killed in error in a friendly fire situation or if it was intentional and the federal agents were working for one of the cartels that operate in the area.
The case began as an undercover operation by anti-kidnapping agents with the Nuevo Leon State Investigations Agency (AEI). The raid took part in the rural parts of the state near the town of General Bravo as investigators tried to locate a missing businessman. For the operation, two agents, a man, and a woman had been in a vehicle when a group of gunmen ambushed them and tried to kidnap the two cops, law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart News. The male agent was able to wrestle himself away from the gunmen and run to back to his car. He reached his weapon and began to call for help on the radio as the kidnappers drove off with the female agent.
The call for help set off a massive response by military and police forces who began combing the various rural roads between Nuevo Leon and the border state of Tamaulipas. State authorities rushed to the scene including Ministerial Police Commander Jose Francisco Martinez Puente and his team who were assigned to the Cerralvo area as part of the AEI.
The 20-year veteran and agents were responding in their assigned patrol unit and in uniform and began to comb various local dirt roads in an attempt to locate the kidnappers. A squad of three trucks with federal police officers from Tamaulipas pulled up behind them and began shooting, a law enforcement source revealed to Breitbart News. It remains unclear how the federal police officers were able to move from their assigned area near Camargo Tamaulipas to arrive at the scene of the shooting so quickly.
The bullets went through the agent’s patrol vehicle and fatally struck Martinez.
The situation turned into a tense standoff when the federal cops tried to disarm the state agents until they realized they had seriously injured Martinez. The AEI agents got back in the vehicle and rushed their injured commander to a local hospital with the federal cops behind them.
Other AEI agents responded to the hospital and a second standoff ensued as state authorities tried to detain and question the federal police officers in connection to the shooting. The standoff ended when Mexico’s Public Safety Secretary Alfonzo Durazo spoke with the federales over the phone and asked them to surrender to the AEI agents for questioning.
Military and state authorities deployed multiple helicopters and sent out hundreds of officers to comb the area in an attempt to locate the missing agent. The gunmen left the female AEI agent on the side of the road in an apparent attempt to tie up authorities while they escaped.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart News traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “Tony Aranda” from Nuevo Leon.
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