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Tijuana: 21 law officers accused of protecting drug cartel
Mexico's organized-crime unit formally accused 21 Tijuana law enforcement officers, including five commanders, of providing protection to the Arellano Félix cartel, the federal Attorney General's Office announced yesterday.and that's how you co-opt the coppers in Messico The officers, 19 of them from the municipal police department and two of them state agents assigned to Tijuana, were suspended in mid-November and taken to Mexico City while they were under investigation. Yesterday, a federal court approved the government's request to formally arrest the officers. They were transferred to a penitentiary in Tepic, in Nayarit state, where the case against them is to begin, the Attorney General's Office said. The five municipal commanders included Rosalba Gonzalez Molina, the special forces chief, and Javier Enrique Cardenas Salgado, a longtime liaison to U.S. law enforcement authorities. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you? Posted by: Frank G 2009-01-19 |
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