(05-10) 20:29 PDT MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) --
U.S. officials confirmed Monday that an American citizen was found dead in northern Mexico.
The U.S. Embassy said the body of Ronald C. Ryan was recovered in Sonora state, across from Arizona, but gave no other details.
Jose Larrinaga, spokesman for Sonora state prosecutors, told reporters Sunday that Ryan's body was found the previous day partially buried near a creek on the outskirts of Santa Ana, a city 60 miles south of Nogales, Arizona. A cause of death had not been determined and the body was taken to the border city of Nogales, Mexico, for an autopsy, he said.
Larrinaga said Ryan, 67, of Phoenix, Arizona, had been reported missing May 3.
State police had reported detaining three men the following day who had left Ryan's pickup truck at a carwash in Santa Ana. Officers seized several automatic rifles, dozens of bullets and marijuana from the men, ages 18, 20 and 21, state police said.
Local media said two of the men are the son and a nephew of Jose Vasquez Villagrana, an alleged key operator of the Sinaloa cartel who was arrested in February.
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6 Comments
Pkato
Bordering on Insanity
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labor.
If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely.
If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you will be jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from again.
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political prison to rot.
If you cross the U.S. border illegally you get:
a job,
a drivers license,
social security card,
welfare,
food stamps,
credit cards,
subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house,
free education,
free health care,
a lobbyist in washington
billions of dollars worth of public documents printed in your language
the right to carry your country's flag while you protest that you don't get enough respect
and, in many instances, you can vote.
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone
under independence. -- George Washington
HampsterW
totally unbelievable and to think we stand for this shit, disgraceful!
ecaman
A true statement about the situation in the world today. We live in an increasingly sick world.
samD
Great comment.
CharlesW
for attempting to protect it's self
samD
A friend from Kalifornication just sent me this:
One good thing coming out of California is a current situation at CAL Berkeley. A number of students are holding a protest outside the Dean's home. They have avowed to starve themselves to death unless the Dean denounces Arizona's new immigration law.
There is hope that the Dean will address the crowd and let it be known he is in support of the new law while eating a pepperoni pizza. Otherwise, if their demands are met there is a chance that they will graduate and start procreating ...arrgh!