LAREDO NEWS- IBC Robbery shoot out: Thieves swim across the river to Nuevo Laredo with cash
MORE robbery news, again, from IBC headquarter town of Laredo Texas. March 2007,
this ALMOST sounds like a keystone cops / gang who couldn't shoot straight episode.
Ya gotta read this....
Robbery shoot out: Thieves swim across the river to Nuevo Laredo with cash
By CELILNA ALVARADO, LAREDO MORNING TIMES
03/18/2007
http://www.lmtonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18095246&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6
A bank robbery at the IBC at Wal-Mart South Saturday night ended with the suspects shooting a police car, then racing to El Portal where they escaped into the brush along the Rio Grand and swam to the Mexican shore carrying bags of cash.Tow trucks pulled out a dark-colored Toyota Tundra out of the river late Saturday while a Border Patrol helicopter, Webb County Sheriff’s deputies, Texas Rangers, and other law enforcement officials oversaw the scene. When the car was pulled out it was surrounded by law enforcement officers in full protective gear.
Police say at least two men with high powered-weapons robbed the IBC bank inside Wal-Mart, in the 4400 block of U.S. 83, taking several thousand dollars, and shot at a Laredo Police crusiser during a high-speed chase, without injuring the officer.
Several police and Webb County patrol units were believed to have been damaged in the high-speed chase. The robbers then sped toward Bridge No. 2, where they then abandoned the stolen truck near the intersection of Pedregal and Sta. Cleotilde Ave. and fled into Los Dos Laredos Park, just north of El Portal.
Although a police helicopter had come to the scene the robbers are believed to have swum to the Mexican side of the Rio Grand, carrying bags of money, and escaped into Nuevo Laredo.
The situation was confused, police said, by a second robbery of the truck in the 4500 block of Hachar Lane.
The victim told police that two men ran up to him, pointed a handgun, and stole his black 2006 Toyota Tundra pickup.
During the high-speed chase along Highway 83 and Loop 20 officers attempted to stop the truck and were fired on by the suspects, police said. Police report that at least one car was hit by gunfire.
Local and federal agencies were called into the chase and during the pursit the truck went into downtown Laredo and ran into the river at high speed. It was later hauled out by police.
After the two men swam to Nueva Laredo authorities in Mexico were notified and are said, by Laredo police, to be assisting in the investigation.
Keywords for this post : laredo, nuevo laredo,ibc bank, robbery, march,2007,
this ALMOST sounds like a keystone cops / gang who couldn't shoot straight episode.
Ya gotta read this....
Robbery shoot out: Thieves swim across the river to Nuevo Laredo with cash
By CELILNA ALVARADO, LAREDO MORNING TIMES
03/18/2007
http://www.lmtonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18095246&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6
A bank robbery at the IBC at Wal-Mart South Saturday night ended with the suspects shooting a police car, then racing to El Portal where they escaped into the brush along the Rio Grand and swam to the Mexican shore carrying bags of cash.Tow trucks pulled out a dark-colored Toyota Tundra out of the river late Saturday while a Border Patrol helicopter, Webb County Sheriff’s deputies, Texas Rangers, and other law enforcement officials oversaw the scene. When the car was pulled out it was surrounded by law enforcement officers in full protective gear.
Police say at least two men with high powered-weapons robbed the IBC bank inside Wal-Mart, in the 4400 block of U.S. 83, taking several thousand dollars, and shot at a Laredo Police crusiser during a high-speed chase, without injuring the officer.
Several police and Webb County patrol units were believed to have been damaged in the high-speed chase. The robbers then sped toward Bridge No. 2, where they then abandoned the stolen truck near the intersection of Pedregal and Sta. Cleotilde Ave. and fled into Los Dos Laredos Park, just north of El Portal.
Although a police helicopter had come to the scene the robbers are believed to have swum to the Mexican side of the Rio Grand, carrying bags of money, and escaped into Nuevo Laredo.
The situation was confused, police said, by a second robbery of the truck in the 4500 block of Hachar Lane.
The victim told police that two men ran up to him, pointed a handgun, and stole his black 2006 Toyota Tundra pickup.
During the high-speed chase along Highway 83 and Loop 20 officers attempted to stop the truck and were fired on by the suspects, police said. Police report that at least one car was hit by gunfire.
Local and federal agencies were called into the chase and during the pursit the truck went into downtown Laredo and ran into the river at high speed. It was later hauled out by police.
After the two men swam to Nueva Laredo authorities in Mexico were notified and are said, by Laredo police, to be assisting in the investigation.
Keywords for this post : laredo, nuevo laredo,ibc bank, robbery, march,2007,
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