Posted on 05/13/2008 9:17:08 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
May 9
The local governments of Tijuana and Mexicali, Baja California state, asked the federal police to send a special anti-kidnapping task force to the cities in order to combat the increasing incidence of extortion-related abductions there.
A former political leader in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas state, was abducted by a group of armed men. Some reports indicate that a current government official who was with him at the time was wounded during the kidnapping.
Police in Navolato, Sinaloa state, reported the discovery of seven bodies with signs of torture. At least one of the victims was a police officer.
A man and his son were shot dead in an apparently drug-related shooting incident in Palomas, Chihuahua state; more than 60 shell casings were recovered from the scene.
May 10
The second highest-ranking police official in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, died after being shot several times while driving near his home. His name had been on a hit list left in January at a memorial to fallen police officers in the city.
A soldier was found alive in Jacona, Michoacan state, bound at the hands and feet and bearing signs of torture.
May 11
Authorities in Huetamo, Michoacan state, reported finding the body of an unidentified man who appeared to have been shot more than 100 times.
Five people were shot dead in separate incidents in Sinaloa state in the cities of Culiacan, Salvador Alvarado and Angostura.
The police chief in Amecameca, Mexico state, received a death threat from a group of several armed men who demanded he discontinue efforts to halt illegal logging operations in the area.
Five people died in an apparent drug-related shooting incident in Palomas, Chihuahua state. Authorities reported recovering more than 160 shell casings from the crime scene.
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