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10 Face Charges in Mexico Killings

" .. the gunmen left the couple’s baby crying in the back seat of their S.U.V."
MEXICO CITY — Ten members of a Mexican drug gang working on both sides of the border have been charged in the murders last year of a pregnant American Consulate employee, her husband and the husband of another consulate employee in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Court documents unsealed Wednesday in El Paso revealed federal charges against a total of 35 people the authorities said were linked to the Barrio Azteca gang.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. described the gang as a transnational criminal organization with a “militaristic command structureâ€