Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIU) / International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) Annual Conference
April 30 - May 4, 2012 at the Loews Coronado Bay on Coronado Island (San Diego), California.
Building upon the success of our First International Symposium held earlier this year in Vancouver, Canada, the IACA will once again offer a training symposium. In 2012, the IACA will partner with Europol for the Second International Symposium.
The 2012 Symposium will be held April 17th - 18th, 2012 at the Headquarters of Europol in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Registration for the Second International Symposium will open in January and the annual training conference registration will open in February. More information about these unique training events will be posted soon. Keep up-to-date by following us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, our Blog, or right here on iaca.net. You can also follow @IACAConference on Twitter to receive only conference-related news and updates.
TheIACA 22nd Annual Training Conference will be held at The Ravella, a luxury resort in Henderson, Nevada. The conference dates are September 10th - 13th, 2012. A Mediterranean-inspired oasis nestled in the Southwestern desert, The Ravella infuses a dramatic setting with unimaginable luxury and amenities.
In addition to its scenic location, the 2012 conference will feature many training sessions for analysts at all experience levels. A combination of great training, picturesque location and excellent facilities makes this a unique training conference experience that you will not want to miss!
A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico's decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday. Mayor Jose Reyes said federal police have confirmed to him that a car bomb was used in the attack that killed three people Thursday. It was the first time a drug cartel has used a bomb to attack Mexican security forces, marking an escalation in the country's already raging drug war.
Federal police and paramedics were lured to the scene by a phone call reporting that shots were fired at a major intersection and a municipal police officer lay wounded at a major intersection. As the paramedics were working on the wounded man, a parked car exploded. Reyes said authorities later determined that the wounded man was not a policeman, although he was wearing a fake uniform. The man was among the three people who died in the attack. The others were a federal police officer and a medical technician. Brig. Gen. Eduardo Zarate, the commander of the regional military zone, told reporters that up to 22 pounds (10 kilograms) of explosives might have been used, although investigators were still trying to determine what type.
About a dozen hooded gunmen burst into a Mexican rehabilitation clinic near the U.S. border on Wednesday, lining up patients before killing 17 of them. Drug gangs have targeted rehab clinics in the manufacturing city of Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas, accusing them of protecting dealers from rival gangs.
The attack was one of the deadliest in President Felipe Calderon's three-year war against drug cartels, despite the presence of 10,000 troops and federal police in Ciudad Juarez who constantly patrol the city's streets.
The suspected hitmen stormed their way into the drug and alcohol rehab clinic in Ciudad Juarez and forced patients into a line in a corridor before shooting them, the army and the El Diario newspaper said.
In a separate attack on Wednesday, gunmen killed the deputy police chief in Calderon's home state of Michoacan in western Mexico. There have been a number of high profile attacks on police and military forces in Michoacan by La Familia cartel.
Suspects in Juárez linked to Zetas By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times Posted: 07/07/2009 11:01:47 PM MDT
EL PASO -- Mexican federal agents detained four kidnapping suspects in Juárez who claimed to be Zetas, a feared enforcement arm of drug cartels, authorities said Tuesday.
The federal public safety secretariat in Mexico City announced details of Monday's detentions and a high-speed chase, which ended with the rescue of an alleged kidnapping victim. Officials identified three of the suspects as Eduardo "Lalo" Hernandez Rodriguez, 20, of Juárez; Juan Manuel Artalejo Orozco, 21, of Chihuahua City; and a 16-year-old, "Cristian," of Juárez. They also said that Ramon Benito Limas Cordero, 52, allegedly drove one of the vehicles seized in connection with the case, but they did not classify him as a suspect.
Three of the suspects seemed to be younger than typically hardened Zetas, who often are former soldiers and ex-police officers. Officials did not provide any details about Limas. In a news release, Mexican authorities described the suspects as "alleged kidnappers linked to the criminal organization known as the Zetas."
Criminal cooperation - Indictment details new Gulf-Zeta relationship
Jeremy Roebuck, The Monitor July 1, 2009 - 11:45 PM
The Gulf Cartel recruited the Zetas in the 1990s to help muscle its way into a highly competitive Mexican drug market. But over the past three years, the paramilitary organization - made up of former special operations soldiers and rural street thugs - has grown in stature, engaged in independent criminal endeavors and has become an equal partner in the business once dominated by its creator.
An uneasy truce now exists in smuggling corridors from Nuevo Laredo to Matamoros, according to recently unsealed court documents. An indictment in a federal case against the leadership of both groups describes for the first time the hierarchy between the two, who refer to themselves collectively as "The Company."
On Monday two bodies were found in Veracruz –one a branch leader of the PRI–with a narcomensaje that stated: “We’re here to clean the streets of Zetas.”
Another two bodies wrapped in black plastic were later discovered near the Veracruz port with another note. This one read: “The war is just beginning.”
On June 28, Rick Grabman picked up on another anti-Zetas story unfolding in Cancun at The Mex Files . The bad boys down there are identifying as “Mata Zetas”.
Veracruz is Zetas territory. In fact, the entire eastern coast of Mexico is under their hands. Who would be pushing on them? It’s uncertain right now if such a group formally exists. But something is afoot. Homegrown rivals leftover from the old Gulf cartel?
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 French military and political leader, Emperor
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