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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2008 
Mexico Bomb Plot Ordered From Sinaloa
 Associated Press
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| | A fireman clears glass shards from a window after a bomb blast in Mexico City, February 15, 2008. A probe into a botched bomb attack in Mexico City moved closer to the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel on Tuesday as a top prosecutor said an arms dealer from the northwestern state ordered the attack. (Henry Romero/Reuters) | | |
Mexico City - A failed plot to bomb a Mexico City police commander has been traced to Mexico's Sinaloa state, home to one of the country's most powerful drug cartels, the capital's top prosecutor said Tuesday.
An unidentified man from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, who goes by the nickname "The Boss," ordered the killing of police Commander Julio Sanchez Amaya following a recent series of weapons seizures and arrests, Mexico City Attorney General Rodolfo Felix Cardenas said.
He did not confirm whether "The Boss" is a member of the Sinaloa cartel, but noted that the police commander was targeted for overseeing the weapons seizures and arrests of several alleged members of the cartel.
The homemade bomb exploded two blocks from police headquarters on Feb. 15, killing a man who carried it in a duffel bag and injuring a woman whom surveillance video captured walking with him. Investigators are treating her a suspect.
Three men and another woman have been arrested in connection with the failed attack, and six additional suspects are still being sough, Felix Cardenas said.
Two women suspects told police that "The Boss" often bought weapons in the capital from two men linked to the bombing, he said. |
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