Police chief murdered in Mexican town
March 11th, 2011 - 12:22 pm ICT by IANSMexico City, March 11 (IANS/EFE) The chief of police in the western Mexican town of Santiago Tangamandapio was found murdered Thursday, authorities said.
The body of Jorge Nunez Espinoza was discovered by passers-by shortly before 8 a.m. lying next to his official vehicle in a rural area, a spokesman for the Michoacan state Attorney General’s Office told EFE.
Nunez, who went missing Wednesday night, was shot once in the head and three times in the chest, according to the AG’s office spokesman, who said investigators think the chief was “executed on the spot”.
Press accounts identified Nunez as the third municipal police chief slain so far this year in Michoacan.
The same accounts mention the appearance in Michoacan’s major cities of signs proclaiming the emergence of a new gang calling itself the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar), which claims to be the heir to La Familia Michoacana, a multifaceted crime organization.
La Familia, infamous for decapitating and dismembering enemies and for its brazen attacks on the security forces, dominates the production of synthetic drugs such as crystal meth and also engages in kidnapping, extortion and other rackets.
–IANS/EFE
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