Cop takes down cop in Mexico

Click on this link and you'll see something you don't see every day: a score of cops being arrested all at once by other cops, in the northern Mexican city of Tampico. The green uniformed officers lined up in the foreground are members of Mexico's Federal Preventive Police. Look closely and you'll see the handcuffs and chains on their wrists. They're being placed under arrest by the blue-uniformed members of the Federal Investigative Agency, Mexico's equivalent of the FBI, standing just behind them. The alleged bad cops were working on behalf of Mexico's notorious Gulf Cartel of drug traffickers, according to news reports, and were allegedly providing "counterintelligence" and protection to the traffickers. Twenty-five federal cops were arrested in all. They were allegedly receiving between $500 and $1,200 in monthly payments from the traffickers.

Posted by Héctor Tobar in Mexico City