| | |  News from Around Banderas Bay | October 2009 
Dead Canadians in Mexico Drug Suspects
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| | B.C.'s Gordon Douglas Kendall, left, and Jeffrey Ronald Ivans, in an undated photograph from a Facebook memorial page. (CBC) | |
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - Canadian authorities say two men found gunned down execution-style in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, had a record of drug convictions in British Columbia.
Gordon Kendall and Jeffrey Ivans, both 37, were found dead early Sunday in a rented condominium.
The Noticias Puerto Vallarta newspaper reported both were shot at point-blank range. One of them was shot at least nine times.
Sgt. Bill Whelan of the Canadian Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit told The (Vancouver) Province newspaper the men were being actively tracked.
"We were aware that they were involved in the drug trade," Whelan said.
Mexican embassy spokesman Alberto Lozarno told The Globe and Mail the slayings bore all the hallmarks of a drug dispute.
"These guys were owners of a Hummer and a Mercedes and they were apparently armed and fired a weapon," Lozarno said. "So this does not seem to be the case of a couple of tourists."
No arrests have been made in the investigation, the Guadalajara Report said.
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