A Mexican judge Monday ordered 19 police agents and justice officials to be held in custody for suspected murders and drug trafficking near the popular resort of Cancun, the attorney general’s office said.
It said the 19 were involved in the drug-related killings of five people, three of them federal policemen, who were killed while they were blindfolded and with their hands tied behind their backs last November.
The accused, some of then senior policeman, also “took advantage of their positions to allow, authorize and tolerate crimes against public health (like) drug trafficking,” the office said in a statement.
Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, home to Cancun and other resorts, is a key point of entry for South American cocaine on its way to the United States.
