Geeze, don’t you guys read “The Mex Files”?

One more time…

BOUNTY HUNTING IS ILLEGAL IN MEXICO.
VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED.

From the Douglas (Arizona) Daily Dispatch:

NACO, Sonora, Mexico – Police here arrested five U.S. citizens Wednesday and accused them of bounty hunting, a criminal offense in Mexico.

Roberto Bejarano, chief of the Sonora state police investigative unit in Naco… said the suspects detained two Mexican citizens, Luis Perez Flores, 31, and Trinidad Vizcarra Garcia, 26, as they were walking down a street Wednesday morning in central Naco. After loading Perez and Vizcarra into a pickup truck at gunpoint, the suspects tied their feet together, told them they were U.S. officials, and drove toward the Naco Port of Entry, Bejarano said.

Perez and Vizcarra began to struggle with their captors, however, and were able to jump from the truck just before it crossed into Naco, Ariz. As they ran for help at a nearby police outpost, the truck continued on into the United States.

A short time later, Bejarano said, the five alleged bounty hunters returned to Naco, Sonora, wearing new sets of clothing but driving the same pickup. Police quickly spotted the vehicle and arrested the suspects.

Bejarano believes the men were hired to capture Perez and Vizcarra and recover a car that they had allegedly stolen.

“I don’t know if that kind of activity is legal in the United States,” Bejarano said, “but here in Mexico, if you think that someone stole your car, you go to the authorities and ask them to arrest the criminals and get the car back.”

The five suspects were transported Wednesday afternoon to Cananea, Sonora, to give statements to a public minister. A judge will rule within three days whether there is enough evidence to charge them with the crime of unlawful deprivation of freedom, Bejarano said.

Authorities in Naco contacted officials at the U.S. consulate in Nogales, Sonora, to notify them of the arrests, he added.

I especially like the part where these “Dog Chapman” wannabes changed their clothes. OK, so Mexican cops are a few rajas short of a fajita. They’re not THAT stupid).  

 I’ve posted at least six times about that idiot, Dog Chapman, before.  

And, for those with a scholarly bent (not that I expect Dog, his admirers, nor his would-be imitators to bother with such details) Professor Russel Covey of the Whittier College of Law (California) wrote about the perils of international bounty hunting back in 2003 for FindLaw. 

For those who DO have a scholarly bent, finding and presenting the information takes time (and electricity and telephone connections):