Thread: 5 Decapitated Bodies Found in Acapulco

5 Decapitated Bodies Found in Acapulco

Skin on faces, scalps removed and found in purse

Updated: Saturday, 20 Aug 2011, 3:42 PM MST
Published : Saturday, 20 Aug 2011, 3:01 PM MST
SERGIO FLORES, Associated Press

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Two decapitated bodies and scalped heads were dumped outside a Sam's Club store in Acapulco, while three headless corpses were found nearby on the resort city's main tourist strip, authorities in Mexico said Saturday.

The bodies discovered outside the Sam's Club were cut into more than 20 pieces, Guerrero state's Public Security Department said in a statement.

The statement said the skin on their faces and scalps had been removed and left in a woman's purse at the scene.

The three other decapitated bodies were found in a car parked on the boulevard Miguel Aleman 200 meters (656 feet) from the store, police said. One of the victims was a woman. Their heads have not been located.

Nearly two dozen Acapulco gas stations closed temporarily on Friday to protest the escalating violence.

Drug violence has grown in Acapulco since the December 2009 killing of cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva, which set off fighting among factions of the Beltran Leyva cartel.

Meanwhile, authorities said they found the bullet-riddled bodies of nine men on a highway in the Pacific Coast state of Nayarit.

The men's hands were tied and their bodies showed signs of torture, the Nayarit Attorney General's Office said in a statement Saturday. The men were aged 20 to 35, and the bullet wounds were from rifle fire, the statement said.

Nayarit has become a battleground for drug cartels fighting for control of the area.

The Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful, has long been active in Nayarit, which borders its home base in Sinaloa state, but the gang has recently been challenged by the Zetas and by the remnants of the Beltran Leyva cartel.

In May, a gunbattle between rival drug gangs in Nayarit left 29 bodies in fake military uniforms heaped across a roadway and inside bullet-riddled vehicles.

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The Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful, has long been active in Nayarit, which borders its home base in Sinaloa state, but the gang has recently been challenged by the Zetas and by the remnants of the Beltran Leyva cartel.

The Sinola cartel is reportedly the same cartel that the CIA allowed to bring tons of cocaine into this country for guns.

[b]US Court Documents Claim Sinaloa “Cartelâ€

DEA Backs Drug Kingpins

August 19, 2011 admin
Cartels

By Keith Johnson.

On the heels of an official U.S. operation where federal agents allowed U.S. guns to fall into
the hands of known criminals, the question that is now being asked is: Did drug enforcement
agents look the other way as their informants smuggled tons of illegal narcotics into the United States?

According to a recent discovery motion filed on behalf of Vicente Zambada-Niebla, a top lieutenant for Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa drug cartel who now stands trial in Chicago on a variety of narcotics trafficking charges:

“The United States has a policy of entering into agreements with individuals who they know are violent narcotics traffickers, so long as those persons are willing to provide information against other drug traffickers.â€