3 police officers found dead in Mexico border city
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — Assailants kidnapped and killed three police officers in the Mexican border city of Acuna, authorities stated Monday.
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Acuna Public Safety Department stated in a statement that the three were on patrol in the same unit when gunmen kidnapped them early Monday.
The officer’s bodies were found an hour later in a residential area of Acuna, which is across the border from Del Rio, Texas. They had been shot and their hands were handcuffed, the police department said.
Authorities say the Zetas and the Sinaloa drug cartels are fighting each other to control smuggling routes in the say of Coahuila, where Acuna is located.
Last week, gunmen killed a federal prosecutor for the say of Coahuila when he was about to leave his home in the city of Torreon.
A day earlier, gunmen set a fire at the office of the Torreon newspaper El Siglo and fired shots at it. No injuries were reported.
Authorities in the neighboring say of Durango stated soldiers dug up the remains of seven people from a pit.
Durango say prosecutors stated troops found the remains in the town of San Juan del Rio, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of the say capital, the city of Durango. They gave no other details.
More than 400 bodies have been found in a series of clandestine graves in Tamaulipas and Durango says since April. They are believed to be a result of turf battles between drug cartels.
In Hidalgo, the home say of Zetas leader Heriberto Lazcano, say police chief Damian Canales stated authorities detained eight local police officers for allegedly working for the Zetas.
Canales stated six of those detained were officers for the town of Actopan and two for the say capital of Pachuca. He stated they were detained after the arrest of the former police chief in the town of Arenal, who authorities allege was in charge of recruiting police officers to work for the Zetas.
Canales stated the Pachuca city police officers told investigators the Zetas paid them about $360 a month.
Also on Monday, military authorities stated soldiers in the border say of Chihuahua detained two police chiefs while they were meeting with an alleged drug trafficker.
Soldiers detained the police chief and a police officer for the town of Gran Morelos and the police chief for the town of Belisario Dominguez while they met with a boss for La Linea, a gang of hit men for the Juarez Cartel, the Defense Department stated in a statement.
It stated an anonymous phone call led the troops to the meeting in the town of Belisario Dominguez. Soldiers arrested two other men and seized three handguns and four automatic rifles, the statement added.
President Felipe Calderon has been pushing to clean up local and say police forces, whose officers are often corrupt or are coerced by threats into helping drug gangs.
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