13 Federal Police Among 18 Arrested in Acapulco Kidnapping Probe Richard Fausset - The Los Angeles Times
go to original October 9, 2013

Mexican officials released photos of 18 suspects arrested in connection with a kidnapping ring in Acapulco. (Interior Secretary of Mexico,/European Pressphoto Agency)

MEXICO CITY — Thirteen Mexican federal police officers are among 18 people arrested last week on suspicion of being part of a deadly kidnapping ring operating in the troubled Pacific resort city of Acapulco, government officials said Tuesday.

The arrests on Wednesday and Friday probably will do little to improve the reputation of the federal police, an agency that former President Felipe Calderon, who left office in December, had hoped in vain to transform into Mexico's most trustworthy crime-fighting force.

Nor is the news likely to improve the reputation of Acapulco, where drug cartels and other criminal gangs have helped make the former playground of Hollywood royalty the city with highest homicide rate in Mexico.

The arrests come at a time when, according to federal government figures, kidnapping and extortion are on the rise across Mexico, even as the number of homicides is declining.

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