Rolly
Apr 20, 2006, 12:34 PM
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
9:50 a.m. April 20, 2006
ACAPULCO, Mexico – The decapitated heads of a police chief and police officer were found early Thursday dumped in front of a government building – the same site where four drug traffickers died during a shootout with law enforcement earlier this year.
The heads of Acapulco Preventive Police Commander Mario Nunez Magana and Preventive Police Officer Jesus Alberto Ibarra were accompanied by a red sign with black lettering that warned, “So that you learn to respect.”
They were discovered about 3 a.m. in front of the offices of the city's Finance Department. Beside them were black plastic bags the killers apparently had used to carry them in, said local Attorney General official Rogelio Quevedo Mendoza.
The bodies of the policemen were later found in a different part of the city, one wrapped in a blue sheet and the other in a green rug. Both were secured with heavy tape, Quevedo said.
On Jan. 27, four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with Preventive Police officers in front of the Finance Department, located only 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the city's main tourist zone.
The gruesome discovery came just hours after Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo, the governor of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, announced that he was investing 120 million pesos (US$12 million; euro9.7 million) to acquire heavy-duty weapons, new bulletproof vests, and modernized radios for the police force.
“The criminals should watch out because the good weapons are on their way,” he told a news conference Thursday.
Acapulco has been shaken this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as several grenade attacks on police stations.
Federal investigators link the violence to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.
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