Guadalajara -
Six Chapala police officers have been bound over for trial on charges they kidnapped two men in that city and then turned them over to gunmen, who shot the victims and left them for dead.
Lake Chapala is 45 minutes southeast of Guadalajara. The neighboring community of Ajijic is home to thousands of expatriates, primarily Americans and Canadians.
The events unfolded Mar. 22, when two officers intercepted the men at the corner of Avenida Hidalgo and Lourdes in Chapala and took them into custody on some pretense. They called four associates, also policemen, and the group drove the men east on the Ajijic-Chapala highway. The victims were turned over to gunmen at Mezcala, near Poncitlán, who shot them and abandoned their bodies. But the pair survived, and residents of the area summoned emergency help.
The two men identified the officers who kidnapped them. Prosecutors maintain that the police and the gunmen were on the payroll of organized crime in the region, but have not offered a particular motive.
On Feb. 8 the former police chief of Poncitlán was executed in front of his home in the Guadalajara suburb of Zapopan. Area police chief executed in Metro Zone. No one has been arrested or charged.
In May 2012 the severed heads and butchered remains of 18 execution victims were found in two vehicles on a busy highway running from Guadalajara to Chapala. A narcomensaje (executioner's warning) signed by the Los Zetas drug cartel was left at the scene. That case has not been solved.
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Mar. 29 - Confidence checks for local police forces still far behind schedule in 60% of Mexican states
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