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Body Parts Found in Upscale Mexico City District
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY - The dismembered body of a woman was found scattered in a leafy, upscale Mexico City district, while authorities investigated possible drug gang links in the deaths of five females whose throats were slashed in Acapulco. The mass slaying of women is unusual in Mexico's drug war, and there was no indication the cases in the two cities were related. Residents of the capital's tree-lined San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood discovered the woman's upper body on one block and her left leg and right leg on two other blocks, the city prosecutor's office said Saturday. The fingers of her ...
Expert: Mexican Drug Cartels Infesting US, Even Our National Parks
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsLost in the rhetoric about illegal immigration are new reports that Mexican drug cartels have moved into the United States, gaining a major foothold here that may be the start of a permanent expansion onto this side of the border. They're even growing marijuana in our national parks, one expert says. Mexico's cartel families and their associates have moved into cities in the southwestern U.S. as part of their ongoing drug selling and distribution operations, according to an alert from the U.S. Justice Department's Drug Intelligence Center, first reported April 11 by Mexican ...
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 ...
Mexican Convicted of Murdering Border Patrol Agent
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN DIEGO - Jesus Navarro eluded U.S. authorities even before he became the prime suspect in the 2008 killing of a Border Patrol agent. Their long efforts to get the Mexican man convicted in a U.S. court paid off Tuesday when a federal jury deliberated only two hours to find him guilty of murdering Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar at a popular southeastern California campground. Jurors rejected testimony by Navarro that he wasn't even in the marijuana-filled Hummer that struck and killed Aguilar at the Imperial Sand Dunes. Navarro also said he was forced to confess to the crime under ...
US Warns Travelers After 4 More Mass Graves Found in Mexico
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsIn Mexico, another grisly find. Mexican authorities have uncovered four more mass graves in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, where the country's violent drug cartels have begun abducting passengers on buses in the area, including at least one U.S. citizen. The U.S. State Department issued a new warning against travel in Tamaulipas after 16 more bodies were found there over the weekend, raising the death toll in the string of abductions in the region to 88. U.S. citizens are discouraged from traveling in three Mexican states. "The United States Consulates General in Matamoros, Nuevo ...
6.5-Magnitude Quake Shakes Wide Area of Southern Mexico
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook a wide area of southern and central Mexico on Thursday, sending people fleeing into the streets, but there were no initial reports of damage. The epicenter was located near the town of Las Choapas, about 370 miles (600 kilometers) southeast of Mexico City, where it swayed buildings for several seconds. In the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, people ran from their homes and school children assembled on playgrounds. But Gov. Javier Duarte de Ochoa there was no damage near the epicenter nor in major cities in the oil-producing state. "Veracruz is ...
Dozens of Bodies Found in Mexican Border State
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said. Security forces investigating reports that a passenger bus had been hijacked in the area conducted a raid that netted 11 suspected kidnappers and freed five kidnap victims. Then they made a grisly discovery - a total of eight pits, containing a total of 59 corpses. One of the pits held 43 dead. The bodies are being examined to determine whether they were bus passengers ...
Authorities Confirm 2 Americans Killed in Mexico
By not in system - AOL NewsTIJUANA, Mexico -- Two men killed by a gunman who opened fire while they waited at a Tijuana border crossing were U.S. citizens, a U.S. diplomat said Tuesday, and their San Diego employer described them as diligent workers who had moved to the border city so they could afford to live on the beach. U.S. Consulate spokesman Joseph L. Crook said U.S. authorities are in contact with Mexican officials investigating the killings early Monday at one of the world's busiest international ports of entry. He gave no further details. More than 34,000 people have been killed in Mexico's drug war but ...
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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