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[*] posted on 2-2-2003 at 10:11 PM
High Ranking Police Official Investigated in Death of Federal Police Commander


Sunday, February 2, 2003
11:46 PST MEXICO CIY (AP) --

Mexican police are investigating the second-in-command of the Justice Department in the Mexican border state of Baja California in connection with the Jan. 24 shooting death of a federal police commander in Mexicali, local media reported Saturday.

Assistant Justice Department Representative Jorge Rubio Velazquez has been sent to Mexico City and ordered to remain their by his superiors until the investigation is concluded, the newspaper Reforma reported.

No charges of any nature have yet been filed against him, but suspicion focused on him and three fellow police officials after Federal Investigative Police Commander Ruben Castillo Conde died in a hail of bullets while sitting in a parked car in Mexicali, on the border with California.

Castillo Conde's killing could be related to drug corruption within Baja California police forces, Reforma reported, noting that it occurred just hours after authorities announced a plan to rotate new officers into the area to cut down on alleged collusion between police and drug traffickers.
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[*] posted on 2-2-2003 at 10:22 PM


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Tijuana, Mexico, Jan 24, 2003 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The local head of Mexico's equivalent of the FBI was ambushed and killed Friday in the border city of Mexicali, according to authorities.

They said that Ruben Castillo Conde, commander of the Mexicali office of the Federal Investigations Agency (AFI), was alone in his vehicle at a shopping center when at least two assailants gunned him down before fleeing in a green car.

But local media accounts say the officer was ambushed by a squad of some eight to 10 men.

Baja California state attorney Antonio Martinez Luna said federal Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha had already ordered a team dispatched to Mexicali to coordinate the investigation with state police.

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