Mexico: 7 cops, drug gang arrested at cock fight
source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2008/12/25/international/i150148S29.DTL
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Soldiers arrested the deputy police chief of a Mexican resort town and six other officers who were allegedly protecting drug cartel members at a cock fight, the Defense Department said Thursday.
Fourteen suspected members of the Beltran Leyva drug gang were arrested at the cock fight in Zihuatanejo, a Pacific beach town popular with foreign tourists, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Soldiers also seized 59 packets of cocaine, 40 bags of marijuana and 20 assault rifles.
Seven heavily armed police officers had been guarding the suspected drug traffickers, the department said. They included Zihuatanejo's deputy police chief, Timoteo Mata Cruz.
The department did not say what led up to Wednesday's raid, although cock fights are illegal in Zihuatanejo. It was unclear whether the police officers had previously been suspected of collaborating with the Beltran Leyva cartel.
Zihuatanejo Mayor Blanco de Aquino said he had no advance notice of the raid and he could not comment on the allegations against the police officers.
"There are no police forces at any level that are 100 percent free of members who don't act correctly," de Aquino told The Associated Press by telephone.
Police corruption runs deep in Mexico despite numerous attempts to purge forces. Mexico's former drug czar and several other federal officers were arrested earlier this year for allegedly accepting money from drug cartels.
Call me Chicken, but I would never Cock Fight, it just sounds VERY painful.
Fourteen suspected members of the Beltran Leyva drug gang were arrested at the cock fight in Zihuatanejo, a Pacific beach town popular with foreign tourists, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Soldiers also seized 59 packets of cocaine, 40 bags of marijuana and 20 assault rifles.
Seven heavily armed police officers had been guarding the suspected drug traffickers, the department said. They included Zihuatanejo's deputy police chief, Timoteo Mata Cruz.
The department did not say what led up to Wednesday's raid, although cock fights are illegal in Zihuatanejo. It was unclear whether the police officers had previously been suspected of collaborating with the Beltran Leyva cartel.
Zihuatanejo Mayor Blanco de Aquino said he had no advance notice of the raid and he could not comment on the allegations against the police officers.
"There are no police forces at any level that are 100 percent free of members who don't act correctly," de Aquino told The Associated Press by telephone.
Police corruption runs deep in Mexico despite numerous attempts to purge forces. Mexico's former drug czar and several other federal officers were arrested earlier this year for allegedly accepting money from drug cartels.
Call me Chicken, but I would never Cock Fight, it just sounds VERY painful.
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Nancyf
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Yeah, they outlawed cockfighting here in Okla. so they couldn't catch the crooks all in one place. What a bunch of crooks we have!
- 3 years ago
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Nancyf
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arcticspirit
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Nice shot man! (thinking of the song)
You guys did alot of good. Keep up the good fight. (not that they will ever read this... ) - 3 years ago
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arcticspirit
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Katanajon
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How do they do it? Must be kind of like swords? LOL
- 3 years ago
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Katanajon
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arcticspirit
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Katanajon:
Roosters silly, and yeah sometimes they are armed.
- 3 years ago
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arcticspirit
