South Padre Island Crime

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• Mexico's former ruling party suspends ex-governor ov...

  Monday May 28 | via The China Post 

  Mexico's former ruling party on Saturday suspended the membership of a former governor accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from a drug cartel.

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  Related Topix: Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico)

• PRI suspends ex-governor accused of bribery

  Saturday May 26 | via Austin American-Statesman 

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  Related Topix: San Antonio, TX, Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico)

• Mexico's former ruling party suspends ex-governor

  Saturday May 26 | via Newsday 

  Mexico's former ruling party on Saturday suspended the membership of a former governor accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from a drug cartel.

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  Related Topix: Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico), North America, World News, Mexico, South Padre Island, TX

• Mexico's PRI party scolds ex-governor in drug probe

  Thursday May 24 | via The Star Online 

  Mexico's opposition party, leading by double digits in presidential polls, said on Wednesday that one of its former governors must face up to charges in the United States of accepting millions of dollars from drug cartels.

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  Related Topix: Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico), Matamoros, Mexico, World News, Mexico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, South Padre Island, TX

• Mexico's former ruling party distances from ex-gov

  Wednesday May 23 | via Daily Reporter 

  Mexico's former ruling party said Wednesday it will suspend the party membership of a former governor accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels.

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  Related Topix: Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico), Prison

• U.S. accuses ex-Mexican Governor Tomas Yarrington of...

  Wednesday May 23 | via CBS News 

  In this August, 22, 2001, file photo, Governor Tomas Yarrington of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and Texas Governor Rick Perry listen to remarks during the U.S. and Mexico Border Summit in Edinburg, TX.

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  Related Topix: World News, Mexico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Rick Perry, US Governors, South Padre Island, TX, Matamoros, Mexico

• Yarrington denies drug bribe claims

  Wednesday May 23 | via The Brownsville Herald 

  The former Mexican state governor whom U.S. prosecutors accuse of investing drug cartel bribes worth millions of dollars in Texas real estate does not own the properties in question and is innocent of the allegations, his lawyer said Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: South Padre Island, TX, Matamoros, Mexico, World News, Mexico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

• World Digest: Mexican party suspends ex-governor in ...

  Wednesday May 23 | via Austin American-Statesman 

  Protesting Colombia's president A demonstrator shouts in front of a cardboard banner that reads in Spanish: 'Uribe inept government,' during a protest against Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Alvaro Uribe, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Argentina, World News, Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico), South Padre Island, TX

• World Digest: Mexican party suspends ex-governor in ...

  Wednesday May 23 | via Austin American-Statesman 

  Protesting Colombia's president A demonstrator shouts in front of a cardboard banner that reads in Spanish: 'Uribe inept government,' during a protest against Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Alvaro Uribe, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Argentina, World News, Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico), South Padre Island, TX

• Mexico opposition party chides ex-governor in drug p...

  Wednesday May 23 | via Reuters 

  Mexico's opposition party, leading by double digits in presidential polls, on Wednesday said one of its former governors must face up to charges in the United States of accepting millions of dollars from drug cartels.

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  Related Topix: Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico), Matamoros, Mexico, World News, Mexico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, South Padre Island, TX

• U.S. goes after ex-Mexican governor's Texas property

  Wednesday May 23 | via HeraldNet 

  The former governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels and invested the money in Texas real estate, federal prosecutors alleged in two forfeiture cases filed Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: North America, World News, Mexico, Texas, South Padre Island, TX, Matamoros, Mexico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Brownsville, Mexico

• Drug War: U.S. goes after ex-Mexican governor's Texa...

  Wednesday May 23 | via The Daily Breeze 

  The former governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels and invested the money in Texas real estate, federal prosecutors alleged in two forfeiture cases filed Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: North America, World News, Mexico, Texas, South Padre Island, TX, Matamoros, Mexico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Brownsville, Mexico

• Indictment Shows How Ingrained Mexican Bribe Money i...

  Wednesday May 23 | via KQXT-FM San Antonio 

  A Mexican businessman was indicted today in Texas on charges that he purchased millions of dollars worth of property and other assets in the United States to launder huge bribes paid by the infamous and ultra-violent Gulf drug cartel to top officials of the government of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, 1200 WOAI news reports.

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  Related Topix: Prison, Drugs, World News, Mexico, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, South Padre Island, TX, Brownsville, TX

• U.S. seeks to seize property of ex-Mexican ...

  Wednesday May 23 | via WHTC 

  U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday moved to seize millions of dollars' worth of real estate in Texas that a former governor of a Mexican state is accused of buying with payments from drug cartels and from criminal extortion and bribery schemes.

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  Related Topix: Prison, North America, World News, Mexico, Drugs, Tamaulipas, Mexico, South Padre Island, TX

• Mexico's former ruling party distances from ex-gov

  Wednesday May 23 | via Daily Journal 

  Mexico's former ruling party said Wednesday it will suspend the party membership of a former governor accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels.

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  Related Topix: Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico), Prison

• US goes after ex-Mexican governor's Texas property

  Tuesday May 22 | via Newsday 

  In BRENTWOOD construction work on SAGTIKOS PKWY NB between THE L.I.E./I-495/S1 and THE NORTHERN STATE PKWY/SM1 In NORTH MERRICK road construction.

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  Related Topix: North America, World News, Mexico, Texas, San Antonio, TX, Corpus Christi, TX, South Padre Island, TX, Matamoros, Mexico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

• City Water Department Employee Cited in Click It or ...

  Tuesday May 22 | via KIII 

  As we told you Monday, the Corpus Christi Police Department's Click It or Ticket campaign has kicked off, but it seems one city worker missed that notice.

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  Related Topix: South Padre Island, TX

• Student Attacked In S. Padre Island Relieved After A...

  Thursday May 17 | via CBS Local 

  A The 21-year-old Brookhaven College student who was brutally beaten on the shores of South Padre Island is relieved that the last of his attackers was arrested this week.

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  Related Topix: South Padre Island, TX

• Alleged member of Mexican Mafia arrested in stabbing of Dallas student in Padre

  Thursday May 17 | via Dallas Morning News 

  Authorities arrested one of the state's 10 most-wanted fugitives this week in connection with the spring break stabbing of a Brookhaven college student in South Padre Island, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced Wednesday. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Dallas, TX, South Padre Island, TX

• San Antonio Gang Member Arrested in Brutal South Pad...

  Thursday May 17 | via KQXT-FM San Antonio 

  You can run but you can't hide. The Department of Public Safety has arrested one of the state's most wanted fugitives on San Antonio's south side, 1200 WOAI's Joshua Cook reports.

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  Related Topix: South Padre Island, TX