Posted on 04/21/2006 6:45:48 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
ACAPULCO, Mexico - The decapitated heads of a police chief and police officer were found early Thursday dumped in front of a government building - the same site where four drug traffickers died during a shootout with law enforcement earlier this year.
The heads of Acapulco Preventive Police Commander Mario Nunez Magana and Preventive Police Officer Jesus Alberto Ibarra were accompanied by a red sign with black lettering that warned, "So that you learn to respect."
They were discovered about 3 a.m. in front of the offices of the city's Finance Department. Beside them were black plastic bags the killers apparently had used to carry them in, said local Attorney General official Rogelio Quevedo Mendoza
The bodies of the policemen were later found in a different part of the city, one wrapped in a blue sheet and the other in a green rug. Both were secured with heavy tape, Quevedo said.
On Jan. 27, four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with Preventive Police officers in front of the Finance Department, located only 1.2 miles from the city's main tourist zone.
The gruesome discovery came just hours after Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo, the governor of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, announced that he was investing $12 million to acquire heavy-duty weapons, new bulletproof vests, and modernized radios for the police force.
"The criminals should watch out because the good weapons are on their way," he told a news conference Thursday.
Acapulco has been shaken this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as several grenade attacks on police stations.
Federal investigators link the violence to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Just doing the jobs in Mexico that they WANT to do in the USA.
Not the time to lose one's head.
That's not the way to get ahead in life.
It's a shame they weren't more headstrong.
They'll never be the head of a major corporation.
Wow. I've always had a view of Acapulco as a safe, touristy city.
It actually sounds like any other part of Mexico these days.
Not htat I was ever going to vacation in Mexico, but I can officially cross Acapulco off my list of places to go see in my lifetime.
It'd be safer to visit Oaxaca.
The perils of only reading the headline.
I thought the police leaders had all taken a nice secret junket together.
Hmmmm. Mexican drug trafficers adopting execution methods of Islamofacists. Wonder who trained them?
Inmates running the asylum in Acapulco. Yeah.... makes me wanna go there for a vacation - hmmmmmmmmm....
"The gruesome discovery came just hours after Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo, the governor of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, announced that he was investing $12 million to acquire heavy-duty weapons, new bulletproof vests, and modernized radios for the police force.
I am sure the drug traffickers are very interested in this development.
You don't need to spend as much on weapons if you can hire a bunch of guys who are already armed.
It's nothing to lose your head over.
My wife has family living in the area; 10 minutes outside of town gets VERY ugly, VERY fast.
My wife has family living in the area; 10 minutes outside of town gets VERY ugly, VERY fast.
I don't think our politicians want murderous drug dealers. However, our government has no problem letting in Muslims. That should be the big concern. Muslims are much better known for beheading people than Mexicans.
The murderers are being offered amnesty if they promise to go straight for 5 years and pay a $ 2000 fine. Or did I just dream that?
I know this is a fantasy, never happen, they're way past this kind of lucidity, but ...
Everytime I see a story like this, I wish there was some way our druggies could be collectively slapped upside the head and told, "this is what you're supporting".
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.