From M3 Report
Reports of killings have resumed with 18 killed in the last three days. Graph updated accordingly.
Good news:
Police and government officials are being arrested all over Mexico.
? In addition to the arrest of the Chief of Police in C?rdenas, Tabasco reported Friday, Mexican Federal agents of the organized crime unit (Seido) continued their operation against suspected corrupt officials by arresting the director of the State Police of Tabasco, Jes?s Arellano Flores.
? Last Thursday, the Regional Commissioner of Federal Police, Arturo Herrera Valles, was arrested on suspicion of having links with the Zetas Cartel.
? The police commander of Veracruz, Veracruz has confessed to his involvement in the kidnapping of a rancher rescued by state police yesterday.
? Sergio Humberto Ortiz Ju?rez, an ex-agent of a Mexico City Police investigative unit, has been arrested as the leader of the band of kidnappers known as ?La Flor.?
? Mexican Army troops have taken control of police duties in Balanc?n, Tabasco. The town is one of the 11 in the state of Tabasco where officials are believed to be on the payroll of the Gulf Cartel.
Bad news:
Another complaint has been filed about the conduct of Mexican Army personnel participating in Operation Culic?n-Navolato. [M3, 9/3/08] This time, a businesswoman returning from a five-day trip found her house in Culiac?n, Sinaloa surrounded by uniformed soldiers using vehicles with the identification numbers covered by tape. Entering her home, she surprised soldiers rummaging through her bedroom and other areas of the house. When she asked the soldiers for a search warrant, they could not produce one. They then left and her inspection of the house not only revealed damage and disorder throughout, but also that they had stolen two computers, two televisions, new clothes, bottles of wine, a matched set of cooking utensils and even food supplies from the pantry. Her neighbors said the soldiers broke in through the locked door and then destroyed the alarm system.
Richard