Thread: Police find more human heads in Acapulco

Police find more human heads in Acapulco
Associated Press

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Authorities found two more human heads in front of a government office in Acapulco on Friday, accompanied with threatening messages linked to the drug trade.

The new discovery brings to six the number of severed heads found in the resort city this year.

The heads were dumped in front of the Guerrero state Finance Department with a note that read, "One more message, dirtbags, so that you learn to respect."

Authorities were trying to determine if the heads belonged to two decapitated bodies discovered Friday in a vacant lot on the edge of Acapulco, near the small beach community of Pie de La Cuesta.

Neither the heads nor the bodies have been identified.

On Thursday, police found the head of a former Mexican soldier, Hugo Carpio Garcia, by the main entrance to City Hall with a similar note signed by "Z." Authorities said it refers to "Las Zetas," a group of former elite Mexican soldiers who now work for the Gulf drug cartel.

Earlier this month, a severed human head washed up on the beach in the heart of Acapulco's tourist zone.

In April, the heads of two decapitated police officers were left in front of the Guerrero state Finance Department with a note that also warned, "So that you learn to respect." Four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with law enforcement outside the office earlier this year.

Acapulco, located 180 miles southwest of Mexico City, has been shaken this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as several grenade attacks on police stations. Federal investigators link the violence to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.

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In April, the heads of two decapitated police officers were left in front of the Guerrero state Finance Department with a note that also warned, "So that you learn to respect." Four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with law enforcement outside the office earlier this year.

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