Original Article Mexico police held in tourist shooting Associated Press Dec. 23, 2004 12:00 AM MEXICO CITY - Three city police officers have been arrested on suspicion of shooting two Arizona tourists they were allegedly trying to rob, federal police said Wednesday. The incident occurred in a city whose police chief was recently fired after being videotaped in the company of a suspected drug gang figure. The photographer who shot the tape was later killed. The Federal Public Security Department said that four men who made fumbling attempts to cover their faces attacked a family from Yuma as it was stopped by the roadside in the town of Escuinapa for a rest about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. One of the victims, Martin Rodriguez Garcia, told police his family fled but the attackers fired, hitting him and his brother Reynaldo in their arms. The Rodriguez family reached a hospital in Escuinapa and reported the incident to federal police, who asked for the help of local police. "En route to the hospital, the attitude of the municipal police caused suspicion," it said, and the officers were recognized by the victims as they people who had attacked them. The three arrested officers were identified as Luis Lorenzo Rojas, Reynaldo Mayorquin Labrador and Tomas Paredes Hernandez. An unregistered R-15 automatic weapon was also confiscated. The Rodriguez family had been coming to spend the holiday with relatives in the southwestern state of Michoacan. Robberies and shakedowns of families of Mexican origin returning for the holidays have been so common that federal and state officials have announced yearly programs meant to protect them. The arrest of the city police officers comes at a moment when Escuinapa and its police department are under national scrutiny because of the killing of news photographer Gregorio Rodriguez, who had taken a videotape of then-police chief Abel Enriquez with an alleged drug gang figure, Antonio Frausto Ocampo. Sinaloa state Attorney General Oscar Fidel Gonzalez last week offered police protection to reporter Juan Torres, who had received death threats after writing about Enriquez.