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| Mexico: Feds nab suspected hit-men |
| 2005-08-20 |
| Soldiers, federal agents and police arrested 30 suspected drug hit-men and recovered dozens of high-powered weapons after a shootout that killed a bystander in Michoacan on Friday, investigators said. Acting on a citizen's tip, authorities exchanged fire with gunmen aboard several sport utility vehicles in the community of Apatzingan, according to a statement released by the federal Public Safety Secretariat. A person who happened to be in the area was shot and killed and two suspects were wounded during the gun battle, which began before midnight Wednesday but lasted into the early hours of the following morning. The 400 soldiers, federal agents and state and local police officers involved in the operation seized 13 vehicles, some of which were parked outside a Apatzingan hotel. Investigators found 36 guns, as well as bulletproof vests inside. |
| Posted by:Gleretch Unans6034 |
| #1 This would be the state due West from Mexico City. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-08-20 11:33 |