Suspects May Be Hit Men for Drug Gang

Four men arrested in the border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali may have belonged to a gang responsible for 17 killings and 20 kidnappings, prosecutors said.

The four, arrested at different times this week, allegedly acted as hit men and drug enforcers as well as kidnappers, and may have formed part of a gang that killed Father Luis Velazquez Romero in late October.

One of the four, Luis Octavio Arellano Enciso, allegedly ordered Velazquez’s killing after the priest stopped a fight. Prosecutors also alleged that the suspects confessed to killing Rosarito Police Chief Carlos Bowser Miret and Mexicali prison warden Carlos Villalobos in May.