2 Human Heads With Drug Messages Found in Mexico

Friday, October 24, 2008 6:30 PM

MEXICO CITY -- Two human heads have been found in Mexico with threatening messages, police reported Friday. A Mexico state police official in Cuautitlan, just outside the capital, said one head turned up in a box left in the parking lot of the station.

It was accompanied by a message warning that federal police and members of the drug gang La Familia will be beheaded, said the official, who was not authorized to give his name.

State prosecutors in Michoacan, where La Familia is based, said another head was discovered Friday in an ice chest in the port city of Lazaro Cardenas. Tape covered the eyes and an attached message read: "From the Gulf Cartel."

A wave of drug-related violence has been sweeping Mexico, and drug gangs are increasingly decapitating their victims to send a warning to rivals and authorities.

Also Friday, prosecutors in Baja California state reported that police found nine people shot to death in Playas de Rosarito, just south of the border city of Tijuana.

Five men were killed at a veterinarian's office, two municipal police officers were found dead in a sport utility vehicle, and a man and a woman were found shot to death on a roadside, prosecutors said in a statement.

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