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Severed heads of 2 Acapulco officers found

Associated Press
Apr. 21, 2006 12:00 AM

ACAPULCO, Mexico - The decapitated heads of two police officials were found early Thursday dumped in front of a government building in Acapulco, authorities said.

The heads of police Commander Mario Nunez Magana and Officer Jesus Alberto Ibarra were found at the same site where four drug traffickers died during a shootout with law enforcement. The pair were involved in the Jan. 27 shootout. The heads were accompanied by a sign that warned, "So that you learn to respect."

They were discovered about 3 a.m. in front of the city's Finance Department next to black plastic bags apparently used to carry them, said Rogelio Quevedo Mendoza, a local Attorney General official.

The two bodies were later found in a different part of the city, Quevedo said.

Colleagues said both had been kidnapped by armed men from their homes Wednesday. But police said they have no information on how or when the men disappeared.

The discovery came just hours after Zeferino Torreblanca, the governor of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is, announced that he was investing $12 million to acquire heavy-duty weapons, new bulletproof vests and modernized radios for the police force.