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As state authorities interviewed people yesterday regarding the beheadings of three Rosarito Beach police officers and a civilian, funeral plans were announced for the three law enforcement officers. Police Officers Ismael Arellano Torres, 36, Jesús Hernández Ballesteros, 42, and Benjamín Fabián Ventura, 35, were slain after an armed group surrounded their cars Tuesday night in a remote part of the city, authorities said. Their bodies were found Wednesday in Rosarito Beach, their heads in Tijuana. Today, a Mass will be said at 11 a.m. for the three at a local church – Santo Niño de Atocha – in the Colonia...

Mexico City, Jun 23 (EFE).- The Mexican Attorney General's Office is investigating the possible responsibility of Central American street gangsters for the decapitation this week of four people in the area along the U.S. border. "At this time there is a very recent investigation of a similar occurrence in Guerrero (state)," the head of the SIEDO narcotics division of the AG's Office, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, said in a press conference. "And this is the kind of violence and brutality that are characteristic of these gangs - so logic tells us that an individual or a group of them could...

Tijuana, Mexico, Jun 21 (EFE).- The decapitated bodies of four people, including three police officers, were found Wednesday in northern Mexico near the U.S. border, authorities said. The four individuals went missing Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning their bodies were found wrapped in blankets in the Pacific coast city of Rosarito and their heads in bags in Tijuana, said Rosarito police chief Valente Montijo. He identified the dead as police officers Ismael Arellano Torres, Jesus Hernandez and Adrian Ventura, and civilian Fernando Aguilar, a Mexican-American resident of Arizona. According to Montijo, the cops and the other man - who...