| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2009 
Mexican Army Catches Drug Suspect with Police List
 Associated Press
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June 28, 2009
Monterrey, Mexico — Mexican soldiers have captured a suspected drug cartel operator with a list of the names of local police officers who apparently received payoffs, the army said Saturday.
A statement said Omar Ibarra was caught Friday on a street in the northern city of Monterrey. It said he possessed the names of 33 policemen in the wealthy suburb of San Pedro Garza Garcia "who presumably received money from this individual."
San Pedro officials were not immediately available for comment.
Ibarra also had two hand grenades, two packages of marijuana and a 9-mm submachine gun with a silencer, the army said. One of his alleged accomplices was also captured with marijuana, cocaine and a gun, the statement said.
In the western state of Michoacan, gunmen opened fire on a car carrying two forensic investigators, killing one – a chemist – and wounding the other, a doctor.
The attack occurred Saturday in the city of Zamora, state prosecutors said in a statement.
Also on Saturday, nine men and two women were ordered to stand trial on organized crime and money laundering charges. They were arrested in the border city of Reynosa in March on suspicion of stealing oil from state-owned pipelines and smuggling it across the border to sell it to U.S. refineries.
Four of the suspects, including, a former local leader of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, were also charged with selling stolen goods.
The Attorney General's Office said the gang allegedly worked with the drug cartel hitmen known as the Zetas in the scheme to take oil and natural gas from the state-owned oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos.
And in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, a women and her 3-year-old son were shot to death by unidentified assailants on a highway.
Witnesses told state prosecutors that armed men fired on the car from a moving vehicle; the victim's daughter and another woman were wounded in the attack.
Drug gangs are known to operate in Veracruz, where police reported that 51 central American migrants were found on a train along with 12 suspects who the migrants said had robbed, extorted and beaten them. The suspects and some of the train's crew were detained for questioning.
The migrants told police in the town of Las Choapas that the suspects – two Mexicans and 10 Central Americans – had thrown a woman and two children off the train, presumably to their deaths.
Drug gangs have also been known to prey on Central American migrants seeking to reach the United States. |
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