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Officers Arrested Over Mexico Mass Graves; Death Toll Climbs to 145

Federal authorities have pulled 23 more corpses from a mass grave near the town of San Fernando in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bringing the death toll to 145 in a mass killing that has managed to shock even the violence-hardened residents of northeastern Mexico. Sixteen police officers were arrested there Thursday...

Federal Police Arrest Suspect in Mexico Linked to US Agent's Death

MEXICO CITY -- Federal police have arrested another drug cartel suspect linked to last month's attack in Mexico that killed one U.S. agent and wounded another, authorities said Wednesday. In the Pacific coast resort city of Mazatlan, meanwhile, gunmen sprayed the crowded parking lot of a bar with bullets, killing at least...

Police: Captured Gang Boss Ordered Mexico Killings

(Nov. 29) -- Mexican police say a suspected leader of the Aztecas street gang has been captured and has confessed to ordering most of the killings in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, including the deadly ambush of a pregnant U.S. consulate worker and her husband last March. Alleged Aztecas boss Arturo Gallegos...

Mexico: Mayor With Drug Cartel Links Goes Missing

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (Nov. 25) - The mayor and mayor-elect of a southern town disappeared after Mexico's army detained members of the municipal police force and other local officials on suspicion they were working for a drug cartel, authorities said Thursday. Ciro Diaz Sanchez, mayor of Pueblo Nuevo...

Mexico: 18 in Grave Are Missing Acapulco Travelers

ACAPULCO, Mexico (Nov. 6) - Relatives confirmed that 18 bodies found in a mass grave outside Acapulco are those of a group of travelers kidnapped in one of the Mexican resort city's most shocking drug-gang crimes, authorities said Saturday. The families identified the decomposing bodies through clothing and physical...