My Eenglish is bad...shouldn't the headline read "policemen" as in more than one??? Another AP whitewash...

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld ... -headlines

By Associated Press

December 29, 2005, 10:43 PM EST


TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico -- Seven policemen in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas were detained Thursday on suspicion of stealing relief packages intended for hurricane victims, the latest in a string of scandals involving the misuse of donated aid.

The officers took hundreds of food aid packages Wednesday night from a warehouse in the city of Tapachula, on Mexico's border with Guatemala, Chiapas state prosecutors said in a statement.

The packages were destined for victims of Hurricane Stan. Many of the victims lost their homes in widespread flooding caused by the storm in October.

The two police commanders allegedly loaded the aid packages into official vehicles and planned to split it among themselves.

Earlier this month, four government employees in Mexico City were caught as they allegedly took 10 tons of hurricane relief aid.

Last month, a Tijuana official resigned after 14 tons of relief aid wound up in the hands of political operatives of Mexico's former ruling party in Chiapas. Also, the government dismissed and fined a civil defense official for approving questionable purchases of relief equipment in the wake of Hurricane Isidore in 2002