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Child Assassin? Mexico Charges Boy With Homicide

Mexican authorities formally charged a 14-year-old boy they say worked as an assassin for drug traffickers. The boy, identified only as Edgar, was charged with homicide, transporting drugs and possessing weapons illegally, The Associated Press said. He has already confessed to beheading four people, whose bodies were...

14 Decapitated Bodies Found in Mexico Resort City

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Police found the bodies of 15 slain men, 14 of them headless, on a street outside a shopping center in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Saturday. Police in the southern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said handwritten signs were left with the bodies, a common calling card of...

Mexico Auctions Off 'Narco-Bling' at Annual Sale of Confiscated Goods

(Nov. 19) -- Ever wanted to buy a watch bedazzled with custom jeweled skulls, but didn't know where to look? Today, Mexican authorities are wrapping up an open auction of watches just like that and other pieces of confiscated "narco-bling" -- the unofficial name for the luxury goods taken from drug gang leaders -- as part...

Mexican Crime Reporter Shot to Death in Matamoros; 10th Press Slaying This Year

(Nov. 5) -- A Mexican crime reporter was killed this morning when he was caught in the middle of a gunfight in Matamoros, making him the 10th journalist to be killed in Mexico this year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That's six more journalists than have been killed in Iraq in all of 2010. Carlos...

Mexico Mulls Dissolving City Police Forces

(Aug. 25) -- Few mayors are keen to see their own municipal police forces abolished. But few have faced the violence and corruption Jose Reyes Ferriz has seen as mayor of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. "City police have names, they have faces," Reyes Ferriz said in an interview with AOL News. "They are very vulnerable to...