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Officers Arrested Over Mexico Mass Graves; Death Toll Climbs to 145
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsFederal authorities have pulled 23 more corpses from a mass grave near the town of San Fernando in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bringing the death toll to 145 in a mass killing that has managed to shock even the violence-hardened residents of northeastern Mexico. Sixteen police officers were arrested there Thursday for allegedly serving as accomplices to members of a drug cartel suspected in the slayings, the federal attorney general said in a statement. Twenty-three of the 145 victims found so far were killed at least a month before drug gangs began kidnapping bus passengers along a ...
Mexican Authorities Find Six More Bodies in Border Pits
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators found a clandestine grave with six bodies in Tamaulipas state, bringing to 122 the number of bodies found in pits in a region near the U.S. border that is wracked by battling drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco said investigators are searching for more bodies at the pit found late Tuesday. The bodies were taken to a morgue in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Hours earlier, investigators in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa found at least a dozen skeletal remains in a series of ...
Gunmen Kill 5 at Mexican Border Bar
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY - Gunmen shot up a bar and then threw in fire bombs, killing three men and two women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday. The deaths came a day after a shooting attack on another bar in the city caused 10 deaths. A motive had not been determined and it was unclear if the victims died of bullet wounds, burns or smoke inhalation, Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. He said the bodies were charred by the fire started by the gasoline bombs at the Barritas bar late Friday Raymundo Ruiz, AP People watch as ...
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Marisol Valles Garcia: 5 Facts on the Mexican Police Chief Who Got Fired
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsMarisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old woman who made headlines after becoming the police chief of a Mexican border town beset by drug cartel violence, has been fired from her position after reportedly fleeing for the United States. Officials in Praxedis G. Guerrero said Valles Garcia did not report to work on Monday morning and that she is now considered missing. "We don't know anything about her whereabouts," Andres Morales, the town secretary, told CNN. For more, Surge Desk has five facts on Marisol Valles Garcia. 1. She's a mother and student Valles Garcia is married and is a ...
Young Mexican Police Chief Fired After Reportedly Seeking Asylum in US
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsMarisol Valles Garcia, the young college student and mother hailed for bravely taking on the job of police chief in a violence-ridden border town in Mexico, has been fired from her post after reportedly fleeing and seeking asylum in the United States in the face of death threats. Mexican officials in the town of Praxedis G. Guerrero said Valles Garcia failed to show up to work today after taking a planned vacation. "In the absence of [Valles Garcia's] presence on the agreed-upon day and since there was no notification of a need to extend the period of her absence, the mayor has decided to ...
Mexico State Congress Asks for Ban of Video Game Based on Drug Cartel Shootouts
By not in system - AOL NewsCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- A shoot-em-up video game set in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence. Chihuahua state legislators said Sunday they have asked federal authorities to ban a the game, "Call of Juarez: The Cartel," which is based on drug cartel shootouts in Ciudad Juarez. About 6,000 people died in drug-related violence in Ciudad Juarez in 2009 and 2010, making the city, located across from El Paso, Texas, one of the deadliest in the world. The web site of game developer Ubisoft Entertainment SA says the title is due ...
Child Assassin? Mexico Charges Boy With Homicide
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsMexican authorities formally charged a 14-year-old boy they say worked as an assassin for drug traffickers. The boy, identified only as Edgar, was charged with homicide, transporting drugs and possessing weapons illegally, The Associated Press said. He has already confessed to beheading four people, whose bodies were found hanging from a bridge in Cuernavaca, a tourist hotspot near Mexico City. If found guilty, Edgar faces three years in prison. The sentence is short because he is charged as a juvenile. Rumors of a child assassin working on behalf of a drug cartel gripped Mexico last year. ...
Mexico's Alleged Drug Queen Gets Botox Treatment in Prison
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsPrison officials in Mexico are in hot water today as authorities investigate how an alleged drug cartel "queen" was able to receive Botox treatments from behind bars. Sandra Avila Beltran, the so-called "Queen of the Pacific," is accused of operating as a senior member of the powerful Sinaloa cartel and has been jailed since 2007 on charges of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking and engage in organized crime. At this stage in her life, though, Mexico City prosecutors say Avila Beltran has turned to smuggling of a very different kind. They say top officials at the Santa Martha Acatitla ...
14 Decapitated Bodies Found in Mexico Resort City
By not in system - AOL NewsACAPULCO, Mexico - Police found the bodies of 15 slain men, 14 of them headless, on a street outside a shopping center in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Saturday. Police in the southern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said handwritten signs were left with the bodies, a common calling card of Mexico's cartels. Acapulco has seen bloody turf battles between drug gangs in recent years. The bodies were found in an area not frequented by tourists. The victims all appeared to be in their 20s. It was the largest single group of decapitation victims in recent years. In 2008, ...
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