| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2008 
Mexico City Police Commander Killed Outside Home
 E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press
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| | A Santa Muerte, or Grim Reaper, pendant is displayed next to guns and ammunition magazines, seized by Mexican Army, are shown to the press in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. According to Mexican army authorities, suspected gunmen and kidnappers, background, could be involved in recent violence that have left 37 people dead in this border city plagued by warring drug gangs, including nine men found decapitated and four children who were caught in the middle of shoot-outs. (AP/Guillermo Arias) | |
Mexico City – A senior Mexico City police commander who oversaw raids in the capital's gang-filled Tepito neighborhood was slain in a drive-by shooting outside his home, officials said Tuesday.
Victor Hugo Moneda, who led the city's investigative police, was killed as he was getting out of his car Monday night, the Mexico City prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Prosecutor Miguel Angel Mancera said the killing may have been a reprisal by criminals. No arrests have been made.
"We believe that it could have been some type of reaction against the actions that are being carried out by police," he told local media.
Moneda oversaw raids in Mexico City's notorious Tepito neighborhood and the 2006 capture of serial killer Juana Barraza, known as "The Little Old Lady Killer" because of the age of her victims.
Scores of police, soldiers and judicial officials in Mexico have been killed since the government launched a crackdown on organized crime two years ago.
Also Tuesday in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, soldiers detained 11 police officers from four towns for questioning on suspicion of aiding the Gulf drug cartel, the Attorney General's Office said in a press statement.
The officers' names were found on "payrolls" or other written records seized from suspected cartel safe houses, according to the statement.
Tabasco, which borders Guatemala, is considered a key trafficking area for U.S.-bound drugs from Central America.
Army Gen. Jaime Rufino Hernandez said the arrests were part of the government's "Operation Clean House," which has led to the arrest of more than a dozen high-ranking police and prosecution officials for allegedly passing information to the cartels.
In the northern city of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, officials said four bodies were found early Tuesday. |
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