Police Chief Killed in Jalisco Town As Cartel Violence Rages On; Residents Plead for Peace

Teocaltiche is a municipality in rural Jalisco, just under 40,000 inhabitants near the border with Aguascalientes and Guanajuato, a village that eats from tilling the countryside and, in the last decade, more and more of the remittances that the neighbors who emigrated to the United States send home every month. Teocaltiche is also one of those lands in which the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has sunk its roots with a recipe of bodies t…

A police command was shot and killed in the west of Mexico while travelling with his wife on board a car, authorities reported on Wednesday. The attack on the director of the Teocaltiche municipal police in the state of Jalisco occurred at 19H58 Tuesday in front of sports facilities in that town, reported the local prosecutor’s office. Agent Ramón Grande, 50 years old, and his wife, who was injured, were shot by a man who approached his vehicle …

Police Chief Killed in Jalisco Town As Cartel Violence Rages On; Residents Plead for Peace

So far this year, five municipal officers have been reported killed in Teocaltiche alone; two of them in March

The Public Security Commissioner of Teocaltiche Jalisco, Ramón Moncada Grande, was shot to death in the San Martín colony, where a municipal event was recorded; during the attack, the wife of the police command was wounded, who was taken to a hospital to receive medical care.The events occurred at the crossing of Children Heroes and Del Panteón, in front of the municipal cemetery and a sports unit, where an event of the city council was held.The…

Guadalajara, Jal., Ramón Moncada Grande, commissioner of Public Security of Teocaltiche, was shot dead in the San Martín colony of that municipality that has been under the protection of federal and state forces for almost two months, in an attack committed yesterday shortly after 19 hours and in which his wife was injured.

The municipal police of Teocaltiche, Jalisco, was intervened on February 19 by the state government after the disappearance of eight municipal police officers, and the driver of a private transport company that drove them to Guadalajara to carry out tests of confidence control: 24 hours later, the bodies of four of them appeared dismembered. State police and the state prosecutor's office, accompanied by the Army and the National Guard, arrived i…