Posted on 03/02/2009 1:18:17 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY — Federal police made two arrests and confiscated weapons and marijuana Sunday in Tijuana, across the U.S. border from San Diego, after coming under attack by men linked to a drug cartel.
Police said one of the suspects told them they worked for “the engineer,” an apparent reference to a leader of the Arellano Felix drug cartel.
Officers, who were not injured in the attack, seized three assault rifles, pistols and bundles of marijuana.
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On Saturday, two police officers in the town of Praxedis Guerrero were shot dead in their patrol vehicle, prosecutors said.
The town is just south of Ciudad Juarez, a city bordering Texas where more Mexican troops are being sent to fight the cartels.
In the southern state of Guerrero on Sunday, police reported finding a badly burned body, apparently from a fire fueled by tires, in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.
The man’s body was found on the side of the highway leading to the beach town of Zihuatanejo....
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