MEXICO CITY, June 26 (UPI) -- A top police commander was killed in Mexican City Thursday, the latest in a series of police killings amid a federal effort to clamp down on drug gangs.
CULIACAN, Mexico, May 27 (UPI) -- A shootout between Mexican federal police and drug cartel suspects Tuesday left seven officers and one gunman dead, police said.
MEXICO CITY, May 22 (UPI) -- A top police official in Mexico was found dead in the trunk of a car in Mexico City along with another officer, authorities said.
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- Drug cartel attacks against Mexican police have become so violent and common some Mexican police chiefs are said to be seeking asylum in the United States.
MEXICO CITY, May 8 (UPI) -- The head of Mexico's federal police force was killed Thursday by a group of gunmen, police officials said.
MEXICO CITY, March 17 (UPI) -- Four plainclothes police officers were shot and killed in the notoriously violent border town Nuevo Laredo by unknown gunmen, El Universal reported Friday.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, June 30 (UPI) -- Mexican police have been implicated in a kidnapping ring operating in the notoriously violent border town of Nuevo Laredo, federal prosecutors said.
MEXICO CITY, June 15 (UPI) -- Government efforts to curb violence in a Mexican border town using military forces failed to prevent two killings this week.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, June 13 (UPI) -- A Mexican city near the U.S. border removed the remainder of its police force from the streets after a weekend shootout between police and federal agents.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, June 12 (UPI) -- A Mexican federal agent was wounded when Mexican city and federal police in Nuevo Laredo swapped gunfire in a battle officials characterized as a mistake.
