Two men shot earlier this week could be the result of the ongoing battle between Mexican drug cartels now spilling over deep into Arizona, officials say.
Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico's border to metro Phoenix.
The area, once an area for family hiking and off road vehicles has government signs warning residents of the drug and human smugglers.
Night vision cameras have photographed cartel members with military arms delivering drugs to vehicles along Highway 8.
"We are three counties deep. How is it that you see pictures like these, not American with semi and fully automatic rifles. How is that okay?" asked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.
Babeu said he no longer has control over parts of his county.
"We are outgunned, we are out manned and we don't have the resources here locally to fight this," he said at a Friday news conference.
Five weeks ago Deputy Louie Puroll was ambushed and shot as he tracked six drug smugglers.
Sheriff Babeu said the ambush mirrored military tactics.
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ONce again FAUx news talks some biased bull shit! It's a war zone in El Paso too!! Just saying.
zodiam1 1 day ago
@200159332
If you "take it back", make sure you don't wreck the place at the same time.
NeutralExistence 3 days ago
ALL of this violence WOULDN'T happen if ALL currently illicit substances like Weed and Heroine, where LEGALIZED.
Zeldagigafan90210 1 week ago
@katieskritterskorner I don't care about your spelling, its just funny how you call yourself educated when your statements don't make sense. You know nothing about Mexico or its people. And the cartels you speak of, they fuel the drug addiction coming from your country. Go back to your damn horses and stop arguing on things you know nothing of. You're just another xenophobic white American who wants to blame everything that goes wrong around them on somebody.
humbertogsalazar 1 week ago
we are slowly taking back what is ours........ HELL YEAAA!!!!! U CANT DEPORT US ALL... WE STAY IN OUR NATIVE LAND AND YALL GO BACK TO EUROPE...
200159332 1 week ago
Oh yeah.. Blame the Mexicans for all the fucked up shit that happens In America.. Stfu and stop bitching about us Mexicans.. Cuz were not going anywhere.. =)~ lero lero..
Maggie0728 1 week ago
@humbertogsalazar OOO yea make fun of my spelling thats real mature. You think I care about some gay as shit as youtube and how people wonder about my spelling. Actually I do know what mexico is like, its a slum that is ran by the cartel and the economy sucks. But hey you can get all the drugs and lowcost surgeries you want right by the doctor standing on the street corner! They also have no remorse or simpathy for people who break the law, another thing I give em props for.
katieskritterskorner 1 week ago
@katieskritterskorner Okay, its funny how you call yourself educated when you cant spell a thing. You love your country cause you were born here! Immigrants obviously love their home country, but there is reasons why they can't always stay there. If you fully understood why immigrants, specifically Mexicans, have to leave their country, you wouldn't be here ranting on how they're invading our country.
humbertogsalazar 1 week ago
No iggnorant people like you WILL be the downfall of America. You call me iggnorant and an embarassment to my country and yet you do nothing while all of this stuff is going on. Hell I read a title just now about how Mexico KILLS its illegal aliens. They at leased have one good idea!
katieskritterskorner 1 week ago
Maybe you are the one who needs the education. Or I guess you think our economy is peachy king. I suppose you think that if all the illegal Mexicans here are a good thing? Hell most the crime you hear about are them raping, murdering or robbing people. Then the best thing about it is they go to our prisons where people like ME have to pay for there up keep with MY tax dollars. Or I assume that you think that I am an idiot to think that my money doesnt go to that sort of thing.
katieskritterskorner 1 week ago