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After more than five years, local Mexican restaurant Be Bop Burrito has closed its doors to customers and given up its Garage location to the Boston Chowda Company, which plans to open a branch in the space on September...
After more than five years, local Mexican restaurant Be Bop Burrito has closed its doors to customers and given up its Garage location to the Boston Chowda Company, which plans to open a branch in the space on September...
...place with no edges. It bleeds in and out of industrial and residential developments, and there's a creeping invisibility--an anonymity." The weak sense of community makes the area all the harder to police. And there is ethnic fragmentation as long-established Hispanics see new Mexican immigrants moving in next door, calling south of the border for the relatives and parking the truck on the sidewalk...
...this, add the drug problem. On May 5, police stumbled onto the biggest drug bust in city history--a ton of cocaine valued at half a billion dollars--and arrested two Mexican nationals. A federal drug official told the Arizona Republic, "Phoenix has arrived...as a drug transshipment point...
...crazy enough to do this job. And then three weeks later, officer James Snedigar was shot dead as his SWAT team moved on an apartment in the nearby town of Chandler. Two of his three assailants, one of whom was killed, were identified as members of the New Mexican Mafia...