POLICE FIND MORE HUMAN HEADS IN ACAPULCO

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Authorities found two more human heads in front
of a government office in Acapulco on Friday, accompanied with
threatening messages linked to the drug trade.

The new discovery brings to six the number of severed heads found in
the resort city this year.

The heads were dumped in front of the Guerrero state Finance
Department with a note that read, "One more message, dirtbags, so
that you learn to respect."

Authorities were trying to determine if the heads belonged to two
decapitated bodies discovered Friday in a vacant lot on the edge of
Acapulco, near the small beach community of Pie de La Cuesta.

Neither the heads nor the bodies have been identified.

On Thursday, police found the head of a former Mexican soldier, Hugo
Carpio Garcia, by the main entrance to City Hall with a similar note
signed by "Z." Authorities said it refers to "Las Zetas," a group of
former elite Mexican soldiers who now work for the Gulf drug cartel.

Earlier this month, a severed human head washed up on the beach in
the heart of Acapulco's tourist zone.

In April, the heads of two decapitated police officers were left in
front of the Guerrero state Finance Department with a note that also
warned, "So that you learn to respect." Four drug traffickers were
killed during a shootout with law enforcement outside the office
earlier this year.

Acapulco, located 180 miles southwest of Mexico City, has been shaken
this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as
several grenade attacks on police stations. Federal investigators
link the violence to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico
for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.