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Article: Violent border city gets new top cop; Omar Pimentel is the new police chief of Nuevo Laredo, where his two predecessors have been killed.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 8, 2005
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Byline: Danna Harman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO -- The last police chief to patrol this violent city along the Mexican border was gunned down just seven hours into the job. It happened three weeks after his predecessor was shot dead in front of his 9-year-old daughter.
So at the end of his first day on the job as the new top cop of Nuevo Laredo, a city of 330,000 that has become the center of a bloody turf war between two major drug cartels, Omar Pimentel, a lawyer turned highway-patrolman, says, in a moment of cosmic understatement, that he has a lot on his mind.
"I am thinking about the things I will do, ...