Mexican army captures suspect with police list

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Mexican soldiers have captured a suspected drug cartel operator with a list of the names of local police officers who apparently received payoffs, the army said Saturday.

A statement said Omar Ibarra was caught Friday on a street in the northern city of Monterrey. It said he possessed the names of 33 policemen in the wealthy suburb of San Pedro Garza Garcia "who presumably received money from this individual."

San Pedro officials were not immediately available for comment.

Ibarra also had two hand grenades, two packages of marijuana and a 9-mm submachine gun with a silencer, the army said. One of his alleged accomplices was also captured with marijuana, cocaine and a gun, the statement said.

Also on Saturday, nine men and two women were ordered to stand trial on organized crime and money laundering charges. They were arrested in the border city of Reynosa in March on suspicion of stealing oil from state-owned pipelines and smuggling it across the border to sell it to U.S. refineries.

Four of the suspects, including, a former local leader of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, were also charged with selling stolen goods.

The Attorney General's Office said the gang allegedly worked with the drug cartel hitmen known as the Zetas in the scheme to take oil and natural gas from the state-owned oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos.

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