29 January 2011

MEXICO: Crime Round-up : All 38 Police And Chief Quit After 2 Officers Beheaded; 75 Rescued From DF Rehab Center.

AP/

  The police chief and all 38 police in General Teran quit after narco terrorist attacks that included the mutilation and beheading of two colleagues.
   General Teran is located on a notorious drug-smuggling route to the U.S. border.
  Mass police resignations have become common in many small towns in Mexico.

ALSO:
    Mexico City police rescued 75 – including three women – allegedly held against their will in an alcohol-rehab center. All were crammed into one small room. Many suffered dermatitis and three “had lesions of recent origin.
   “All of them were sleeping in a room measuring five meters (16 feet) by five meters, some on them on top of others. Several of them said they were in the place against their will,” said police.
   Two men running the Aprendiendo a Vivir (Learning to Live) center were arrested on kidnapping charges.
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