MEXICAN PROSECUTORS PROMISE ARRESTS OF POLICE

MEXICO CITY Mexico's attorney general said Wednesday there will be a wave
of arrests of corrupt police on the Mexico-California border following an
investigation into a network of officials protecting the Arellano Felix
drug trafficking gang, whose alleged kingpin awaits trial in the United States.

Daniel Cabeza de Vaca told a news conference that the network protected the
so-called Tijuana cartel as it smuggled tons of marijuana, cocaine and
methamphetamine over the border to U.S. consumers. The corrupt officers
also killed honest colleagues, decapitating three fellow officers in June,
he said.

"These criminal groups, especially the Tijuana cartel, depend on the
support of corrupt police," Cabeza de Vaca said. "It's very important. It
sustains their operations."

On Saturday, federal prosecutors charged officers Jorge Alberto Perez and
Salvador Cebreros with taking bribes to protect the Arellano Felix gang.
The two officers worked at the police department of Rosarito, about 15
miles south of the U.S. border at San Diego. The policemen are also
suspected of involvement with the June killings of three of their fellow
officers, Cabeza de Vaca said. The three victims were last seen alive going
to the scene of a reported kidnapping in Rosarito. Their heads were later
found on a beach in the nearby city of Tijuana.

Cabeza de Vaca said Perez and Cebreros were part of a "a big protection
network" working for the cartel in both Rosarito and Tijuana. The police
forces will be "purified," with all corrupt officers being brought to
justice, he said.

"The Tijuana case is an emblematic case for us," he said. "We have
information about all of the organization. There are people meeting on it
at this moment. ... We are going to work for the complete dismantling" of
the cartel.

Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard captured Francisco Javier Arellano Felix,
36, when he was fishing in international waters off the Mexican coast
aboard the U.S.-registered sport boat Dock Holiday.