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    5 police shot dead in town outside Mexico City

    VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico (AP) — Five police officers were fatally shot after they stopped a vehicle in a town outside Mexico City, authorities said Tuesday.

    Mexico State prosecutor Alfredo Castillo Cervantes said the municipal officers from the town of Ixtapaluca had stopped the vehicle when a taxi and a van pulled up and a group of attackers opened fire with high-powered weapons.

    A member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel who police say was responsible for collecting extortion money from bars in the area was killed in the Monday attack. Another man was shot in the head and is at a hospital under police guard, Castillo said.

    Investigators think the men may be the suspects originally stopped by the officers.

    Police are still trying to determine why the officers stopped the vehicle and whether they were in a negotiation with the men in the car when they were attacked. Witnesses told investigators the officers talked for several minutes with the pair before the assailants arrived, Castillo said.

    La Familia, based in Michoacan state, has been spreading to Mexico state and neighboring areas as they wage a turf battle with former allies.

     
    • jessica  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      This country is our backyard war and yet we worry about silly countries across our seas....
    • Yut Phut E-Gair Bah  •  3 mths ago
      The drug cartels would like to personally thank American citizens for the purchase of their products and American Investment and Commercial banks for the funneling and money laundering of their hard earned money.And thank you for those nice interest rates in the Grand Caymans and Switzerland.And mucho gracias CIA and Justice department.
      • Bolt 3 mths ago
        And don't forget Tards that make the comments like yours to make yourself seem (self) important...'cuz you're not !!!!!!!
      • Wnt 3 mths ago
        Not to mention thanking the idiots who came up with this War On Drugs. We're like that country in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that declared the leaf to be the unit of currency - in our case, the marijuana leaf.
      • Sammie 3 mths ago
        End the futile prohibition of "controlled substances". The demand is NEVER going away.
    • Ramon S  •  Pomona, California  •  3 mths ago
      With all this crap going on, Mexico needs to have another revolution! ASAP!!!!
      • ARSCIaida 3 mths ago
        We need another revolution. Drive out the Zionist interests that ruined our government and dictate our lives to us. Hang em all
      • A person 3 mths ago
        Yeah, because we have things so under control in the USA. Incidentally, I'm from one of the more violent areas of CA and saw more frightening stuff during one weekend in the area you're from. Seems kind of hypocritical on your part to criticize Mexico. That whole Norco, Corona, Pomona, Ontario area has problems.
      • F-FACE 3 mths ago
        Yea, let's see our borders when the refugees start adding to the current flow of crap coming in already.
    • Carl  •  3 mths ago
      Mexico is just another Iraq.
    • Sarafina  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      Mexico seems to have a problem finding and eliminating the cartels,
      HINT: They are the ones without a job, living in the big fancy houses driving the Esclades.
      Your welcome.
      • Roger Petry 3 mths ago
        the cartel must also be in roswell, nm. then. so many mexicans in this town with luxury cars and houses and no job!! like Walker Food Mart in roswell, nm. these people who own this store are well known cocaine and meth dealers who bought their "front" stores with drug money, but the mexicans within the system protect them!!
      • Cobra1 3 mths ago
        Sarafina . . that the 3rd time your posting that . . . okay we get it!
      • Kenneth 3 mths ago
        You are a idiot, the state is not in their pocket and would clean up Roswell if they were that dirty. What happened, some Mexican from Roswell take your girl?
    • LeatherC  •  Sunnyvale, California  •  3 mths ago
      Where's the Mexican Navy when you need them?
      • AZTEC-SOLDIER 3 mths ago
        YOU MAA'M ARE VERY F SEXY!!
      • Greg 3 mths ago
        LMAO they actually have a military that's worth a S? I doubt it and if they do they really don't have the money to maintain it.
      • Lancelot 3 mths ago
        Leather... I don't think that anyone got it.
    • KABSTER  •  3 mths ago
      Hows that drug war working out for you mexico. Thanks for exporting your violence.
    • Joe  •  3 mths ago
      Untill you legalize drugs and take the money and power away from the cartels and treat the real problem ADDICTION....then the wholesale slaughter of human beings will not stop.
      • Grateful Child 3 mths ago
        No one is addicted to pot. I smoked for more than 35 years, every day. When I had to stop (for probation [marijuana possession] drug tests), ...it was no big deal. Just friggin legalize it. If it were legal I'd surly start smoking again. Final analysis, ...did me much more good than harm, ...no harm really.
      • A Yahoo! User 3 mths ago
        It isn't just pot. If pot were legalized in the US, the market for other illegal substances would ramp up. People always want what they can't - or aren't supposed to - have. If it isn't pot, it would be something else.
      • Schmebe 3 mths ago
        Legalize drugs and treat addiction? Um ya sure. I'm sure with that logic we will have plenty of addicts to treat.
    • Yut Phut E-Gair Bah  •  3 mths ago
      And this is what happens when the Justice Department wont let Maricopa County Sheriff Joe perform his job to serve and protect Arizona and American citizens.
    • Wraith  •  Colorado Springs, Colorado  •  3 mths ago
      Mexico is resembling Iraq more and more every day.
      Be interesting to see what happens in the next 10 years.
    • Steevo  •  Williamsport, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      Why were there five cops at one traffic stop?
    • Mike  •  Yuma, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      Well wacovia/wells fargo bank has admitted laundering over 360.4 billion dollars of illegal drug money over the last few years. The US government in Fast a furious ships guns to the cartel and brings back drugs..so maybe just maybe the guns the cops where shot with, the US gave the drug cartels...pop that on in your pipe and smoke it...its not hard to confirm everything I just posted, mainstream news.
    • Hubert  •  Palmdale, California  •  3 mths ago
      Time for the Mexican authorities to take a few short cuts. Once these cartel members have been identified, they need to be shot down.
    • 2k77  •  3 mths ago
      The FBI tells us that there are now 1.4 million gang members involved in the 33,000 different gangs that are active inside the United States. The number of gang members in the U.S. has increased by 40 percent since 2009. Just think about that. That is absolutely astounding. Just since 2009, the number of gang members has increased by 40 percent. The FBI says that 48 percent of all violent crime in this country can be directly traced to gangs and that this is a national crisis that is progressively getting worse. Unfortunately, the federal government refuses to secure our borders and is allowing new waves of illegal immigrants to enter the United States every single day. A substantial number of those illegal immigrants end up involved in these gangs. Yet the federal government just stands by and allows it to keep happening. One day, the foolishness of this policy will be evident to all.

      In many areas of America today, families live behind windows that have bars on them and they won't ever go out at night because it is just too dangerous. There are some communities that have pretty much been entirely taken over by the gangs, but instead of addressing the problem the federal government continues to spend a massive amount of resources checking out what might be in our underwear at U.S. airports.
    • Steven  •  Fairfax, Virginia  •  3 mths ago
      drugs will ruin society
    • Glenn Beck's next doo ...  •  3 mths ago
      Coming soon to a US hometown near you.
    • NoRINO  •  3 mths ago
      Just another normal day.
    • j.n.  •  3 mths ago
      they are here already , mixed with the illegals. the goverment has no way in controlling who is coming into this country illegally.
    • Lippy  •  3 mths ago
      The question all law abiding but fearful Mexicans are asking themselves right now:

      "Where is a good paramilitary right wing death squad when you need one?"
    • Benrene  •  3 mths ago
      I don't want these people in my Country. They need to clean up their own Counry before being able to move on and destroy another Country.
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