Dozens of police held in drug sweep
Mexican troops arrested more than 100 policemen as part of a national drive against powerful drug gangs and the police officers on their payrolls.
Soldiers and police swept into more than a dozen police stations across the northern border state of Nuevo Leon, which was long one of Mexico’s more peaceful regions but has seen a wave of execution-style killings in the last year.
Police found 17 corpses stuffed in cars or dumped on streets in garbage bags across Mexico in what appeared to be the latest wave of violence by drug gangs.
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