Priciliano RodrĂguez Salinas, mayor of Doctor González, a town outside Monterrey, Nuevo LeĂłn, was shot to death Sept. 23. A group of armed men intercepted the PRI-affiliated mayor as he was arriving at his home near city hall. A companion who was with him in the vehicle was also killed. (Poder 360, Sept. 24)
On Sept. 20, Mexican federal police announced the arrest of a high-ranking state police officer in neighboring Tamaulipas state. Pedro Hernández Quiroga AKA “El Polaris” was an officer of the Tamaulipas Ministerial Police for the town of JimĂ©nez, and was arrested in Tampico. Two other men thought to be his accomplices were also arrested, including a Guatemalan national. The men were turned over to SIEDO, the Mexican Prosecutor General’s Special Office for Organized Crime. (Brownsville Herald, Sept. 22; El Universal, Sept. 20)
See our last post on Mexico’s narco wars.
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