[progchat_action] Police held over Mexican mayor Edelmiro Cavazos killing
Steven Robinson
BBC News
August 20, 2010
Mexican authorities have arrested six police officers in connection with the
kidnap and murder of a town mayor.
The officers have reportedly confessed to killing Edelmiro Cavazos,
prosecutors said.
Mr Cavazos' body was found, bound and gagged, outside the northern town of
Santiago on Wednesday.
His police bodyguard, who was kidnapped with the mayor on Sunday and
released by the kidnappers unharmed, has also now been arrested.
Mr Cavazos' bodyguard was the only witness to the kidnapping.
The police had been paid by a drug gang, prosecutors said, without naming
the organisation.
"We are still looking for others who were involved as well," Nuevo Leon
state Attorney General Alejandro Garza Y Garza said.
Turf war
One of the officers took part directly in the kidnapping while others kept
watch on roads surrounding the mayors home, Adrian de la Garza Santos,
director of the state investigations agency.
The area around the northern city of Monterrey has seen a rise in violence
blamed on a turf war between rival drug cartels.
Mr Cavazos is the fifth Mexican mayor believed to have been killed by drug
criminals.
Police said Mr Cavazos had just returned from attending a public function on
the town's main square when 15 gunmen broke into his home and forced him
into a car.
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