Mexico detains 10 police officers in federal agents’ killings, charges ex-mayor with drug ties

Mexico detains 10 in killings of federal agents

MEXICO CITY — Mexican investigators have detained 10 police officers in the torture and killings of 12 federal agents whose bodies were found dumped along a highway in western Michoacan state.

The federal Attorney General’s Office says a judge ordered the officers from the town of Arteaga held pending an investigation on suspicion of involvement in the slayings.

The office said Saturday in a statement that the dead agents, who were gathering intelligence in Arteaga at the time of their abduction, were killed in revenge for the capture of an alleged top member of La Familia drug cartel.

Prosecutors also charged a former mayor of the town of La Huacana, where the bodies were found, for alleged links to organized crime.