{"id":129119,"date":"2024-11-23T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129119"},"modified":"2024-11-23T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T02:46:00","slug":"a-police-chief-in-mexico-kills-himself-as-troops-try-to-arrest-him-in-a-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129119","title":{"rendered":"A police chief in Mexico kills himself as troops try to arrest him in a corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 The police chief in a small town in central Mexico took his own life Friday as troops closed in to arrest him as part of anticorruption raids that also detained several other top police commanders and a mayor in other towns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The massive, near-simultaneous raids, which federal officials called \u201cOperation Swarm,\u201d took place in two rural towns in the State of Mexico, west of Mexico City, as well as in two populous suburbs right on the edge of the country&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The federal Public Safety Department said the seven officials arrested \u201cwere linked to criminal groups.\u201d and were accused of \u201ccrimes like extortion, kidnaping and homicide.\u201d It was not clear if formal charges had been filed against them yet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-body\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-5 flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl pb-5 shadow-[0_0_1px_rgba(200,160,251,.63),0_2px_6px_1px_#F3E6FE]\">\n<h4 class=\"m-auto block px-4 pb-4 pt-2 text-lg font-bold leading-6\">Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox<\/h4>\n<p class=\"m-auto px-4 pb-4 text-sm font-normal\">See for yourself \u2014 The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">State prosecutors said the police chief of the one of the rural towns, Texcaltitlan, killed himself with his own weapon as marines, National Guard and soldiers closed in to try to arrest him on unspecified charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">And troops also arrested the mayor of the nearby town of Amanalco on \u201cvarious charges,&#8221; and also detained the town&#8217;s police chief and another local official. They also arrested the police chief of the town of Tejupilco, farther south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The area around those towns has long been dominated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-farming-town-11-dead-drug-cartel-c38c846aa25052dee1e21c2c8e9d1660\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:violent La Familia Michoacana gang;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">violent La Familia Michoacana gang<\/a>, which deals in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-drug-cartel-chicken-warehouses-extortion-8dade3a6fada8c73a2e3b9cbabb24791\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:drugs, kidnapping and extortion.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">drugs, kidnapping and extortion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">While some of the raids targeted rural areas, authorities also detained the assistant police chief of Naucalpan, a sprawling suburb of 775,000 inhabitants on the northwest edge of Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Later, they announced the arrest of a top police chief in the suburb of Ixtapaluca, to the east of Mexico City, which has about 370,000 inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Gangs and drug cartels have long infiltrated, intimidated or bribed local officials into working for them, often going so far as to take a cut of the municipal budget or use local police forces to warn them or protect them from federal raids. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-tijuana-drug-theft-officers-killed-9d4102b8b55f7e4f2c681c6c05056765\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sometimes, police officers simply profit freelance from the drug trade.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sometimes, police officers simply profit freelance from the drug trade.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/police-chief-mexico-kills-himself-214122232.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 The police chief in a small town in central Mexico took his own life Friday as troops closed in to arrest him as part of anticorruption &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129119\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}