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Four Mexican Police Officers Arrested In Connection With Disappearance of Italians

Four Mexican Police Officers Arrested In Connection With Disappearance of Italians

Alleged to have handed the three Italian nationals to drug cartel

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The corruption of Mexican law enforcement has long been known, and it looks like little has changed.  Four Mexican police officers have been arrested on charges related to the abduction of three Italians.

Apparently, the police officers in question were ordered—possibly by the dangerous Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)—to abduct and deliver the men.  The Italian men have not been located.

Reuters reports:

Four police officers in western Mexico have been arrested on suspicion of abducting three missing Italian men for local gangsters, state prosecutors said on Saturday.

The three men reportedly went missing on Jan. 31 after being detained by police at a gasoline station in the municipality of Tecalitlan in southern Jalisco state, the home of Mexico’s second biggest city, Guadalajara.

The Jalisco attorney general’s office said four Tecalitlan police officers, three men and a woman, had been held on suspicion of carrying out the forced disappearance of the Naples natives Raffaele Russo, Antonio Russo and Vincenzo Cimmino.

Jalisco attorney general Raul Sanchez said the arrested police officers had told investigators they had been ordered to hand over the three men to a local criminal gang.

Authorities are still trying to locate the Italians, and investigations are continuing, he told a news conference.

It was not clear why the police had been told to abduct the men.

Jalisco is home to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of Mexico’s most powerful drug gangs and one notorious for infiltrating the police. Sanchez could not say whether the Italians had been handed over to members of the CJNG.

The LA Times has more.

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