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    Police find 7 bodies in northern Mexico

    MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Police in the northern Mexico state of Nuevo Leon said Tuesday that information provided by arrested members of a kidnapping gang has led them to at least seven bodies found buried in shallow graves or dumped in a well.

    By nightfall, Nuevo Leon state police had found seven sets of human remains around the cities of Linares and Montemorelos, near the border with Tamaulipas state. Four bodies were found burned or half-buried, and three others had apparently been thrown down a well.

    A Nuevo Leon state detective who was not authorized to be quoted by name said information from a band of five kidnappers detained over the weekend by soldiers led police to the bodies.

    The soldiers detained the gang after a woman's relatives alerted a passing army patrol that she was being kidnapped.

    Nuevo Leon security spokesman Jorge Domene said the gang worked for the Zetas drug cartel.

    Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon have been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Zetas and the Gulf cartel.

    Also Tuesday, federal prosecutors announced that a former high-ranking federal police official has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping the Sinaloa drug cartel.

    The case of former regional police security coordinator Javier Herrera Valles had been a scandal and for some a cause celebre, in part because he was arrested after having publicly accused some of his superiors of corruption or incompetence.

    The Attorney General's Office said in a statement Tuesday that Herrera Valles had been convicted of organized crime charges for aiding the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico's most powerful gang.

    He was arrested in 2008, around the same time Mexico arrested a number of high-ranking officials for collaborating with drug cartels.

     

    37 comments

    • jose a  •  Austin, Texas  •  5 mths ago
      Kidnapping by cartels and police of innocent people is the #1 crime in Mexico. The innocent people are forbidden to own guns. Thus they have become the victims of the those who have guns. The Mexican Marines are the last hope for the Mexican people. Hopefully, they will not be corrupted by "American Drug Dollars".
      • Cappypappy 4 mths ago
        The Mexican military, especially the Marines, are mortal enemies of the drug gangs. Any soldier who betrays them doesn't last long...
      • Bend Over Bernanke 4 mths ago
        good.
      • Albert 4 mths ago
        only zetas kill innocents
    • john z  •  5 mths ago
      Only 7 ????? There are hundreds more.
      • KendraB 5 mths ago
        exactly! how sad.....
      • Clever 5 mths ago
        I hope they find the innocent victims. Dont really care about the murderous cartel ones.
    • Simba  •  5 mths ago
      Calderon is the greatest leader in the history of Mexico. Stay strong and let him finish his job.
      By the way,we have an army of 30 million in this country.
      You can have them.
      • Dale Bird 5 mths ago
        What are you talking about?
      • amy 4 mths ago
        but then whos gonna do your dishes and your wife
      • Jessica 4 mths ago
        Where do you get your info? you are talking only fron what you see. Open ALL your sences.Calderon will be another Escobar. He has fought harder against all other cartels, but the Chapo Gusman Cartel. In fact, Calderon is the uncle of Chapo's wife. Calderon will be hunt down, taken to trial, and convicted for crimes against humanity, once his presidency is over. Just wait and she.
    • bashful  •  Everett, Washington  •  4 mths ago
      Viva La Raza !!!!
      • mango 4 mths ago
        You're are not needed. Leave.
      • A Yahoo! User 4 mths ago
        Viva La Migra cucaracha.
    • Radarman  •  5 mths ago
      Sure, just let them flow into the USA. Open these borders up so more Americans are murdered too! I can't see a reason why we would need to secure the border.
      • Clever 5 mths ago
        The less whitey in the USA the easier it is for us to take our land back.
      • So What 4 mths ago
        It was NEVER your land, you La Raza FOOL. OH! WAIT!, for 25 yrs. it was, after YOU stole it from the Spanish. That was 170 yrs. ago. GET OVER YOUR BEAN TURD SELF! JAJAJAJA!!!!!!
      • me 4 mths ago
        Radarman dont you watch the news? Americans are killing each other every day! Families being split up by gangs because the street or town they live in, parents killing their children because theyve lost their jobs, children killing their partents becauce they dont like to be disaplined, and babysisters chopping up kids!!!!! And They are smugglin drugs in the US because it the "Americans" WHO ARE BUYING THEM! This is the problem stop the demand from here in the US, so the supply dont come in! Clever Mexico cant even take care or feed their own people why would you want it to have "their land back' with all of us here?
    • Jerry  •  Beaverton, Oregon  •  4 mths ago
      Another reason why we need to keep this barbaric culture out of the United States.
    • Brooks S  •  Olathe, Kansas  •  5 mths ago
      Finding dead bodies in Mexico is like car accidents in the US. They happen every day. Why is this news?
    • Dale Bird  •  5 mths ago
      There is no surprise here! The killing has only just begun in Mexico!
    • Jorge  •  Irvine, California  •  4 mths ago
      we have our own africa inthis country so why is the USA helping those countries and why are those rich people in the US helping the other countries and not the US
    • AARON  •  5 mths ago
      Pepole in this country are out of work and or hunger so why is it the leader of usa can take a 10 million doller vacation on tax payer money this is #$%$ i'm suppose to live on 875.00 dollors a month taxpayer need to stand up and say enough is enough. He wants to spend that kind of money then let him pay for it not taxpayer usa is going to hell in a hand basket
    • Joe  •  4 mths ago
      Messico is just one busy-bee of a country 365 days a year when it comes to murders!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  4 mths ago
      Awesome, now lets nuke mexico, and send all of the ones here in the U.S back to the remains of the nuked country.
    • Gee, Goob!  •  Irvine, California  •  4 mths ago
      Good start, but let me know when they hit one million killed in a year.
    • Gee, Goob!  •  Irvine, California  •  4 mths ago
      Only seven? That's not even news any more.
    • amy  •  Hereford, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      this is what the u.s. does with the rest of the world, is just population control
    • Marie Torres  •  Los Angeles, California  •  5 mths ago
      starting the New Year out just like the old one.
    • juan chavez  •  Guayaquil, Ecuador  •  5 mths ago
      Guess digging a grave was to hard for them, and these kind of people are OBAMAS best votes
    • Sandy  •  Irving, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      That just goes to show that ignorant, rascist people still exist some of these comments are ridiculous!
    • Rusty  •  4 mths ago
      It is obvious with the last few Americans to die in Mexico over the holidays that the gangs don't want Americans in Mexico. Mexico's loss of dollars, I'd rather take fewer vacations and go to Europe.
    • ron  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  5 mths ago
      Here in Phoenix we happen to have a surplus of Mexicans. Maybe we could send them some replacements.
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