BajaNomad

Not so rosy in Tabasco

Hook - 2-15-2009 at 04:58 PM

TABASCO, Mexico – Gunmen have killed a state police officer and 10 members of his family, including five children, authorities said Sunday.

The shooting late Saturday also killed a street vendor in front of the house of state police officer Carlos Reyes, said Tabasco deputy prosecutor Alex Alvarez. Among the five children killed was a 2-year-old boy.

"It is confirmed that (the assailants) wanted to kill the state police officer but they killed his whole family," Alvarez said.

Alvarez said three other people were wounded the attack in the town of Monte Largo, near Mexico's border with Guatemala.

Police hadn't determined a motive for the attack but Alvarez said Reyes directed a car chase and raids on two homes on Wednesday that led to the death of three suspected gang members and the arrest of seven others.

In Mexico City, authorities on Saturday found the decomposing bodies of two women in the trunk of a car that had been abandoned for at least a week, the Reforma newspaper reported.

A city investigator told the newspaper that the women had been decapitated and the heads left inside a cooler in the back seat of the car.

He said one of the women had been arrested in 1999 for the kidnapping of nine relatives of an alleged drug dealer.

More than 6,000 people died last year in a wave of drug-related violence.

DENNIS - 2-15-2009 at 05:01 PM

I guess Tijuana has lost its exclusive. The whole country is infected.

CaboRon - 2-15-2009 at 05:50 PM

At least they showed enough respect to put the heads in a cooler :lol:

surfer jim - 2-15-2009 at 07:07 PM

cooler heads prevelled.....:rolleyes:

Without this type of sweeping action everything remains the same! Enough said!

ELINVESTIG8R - 2-15-2009 at 07:21 PM

Woooosh - 2-15-2009 at 08:10 PM

...and on Valentine's Day too. geesh. The Mafia never hurt a woman, child or family- they dealt man to man. They never disrespected a body.

There are no rules for these narco people or an end to the things they won't do for money- and that's why Mexico can't win. This is not a nation of civil warriors.