Two Mexico police on trail of drug lord found dead

MEXICO CITY, April 27 (Reuter) Two federal judicial police agents
investigating Mexico's most notorious drug lord were found dead in the trunk
of a car in Mexico City, officials said on Sunday.

Police found the bodies of agents Roberto Espinoza Mendoza and Marco Antonio
Vazquez on Saturday inside the car parked outside a wellknown Mexico City
restaurant, the Attorney General's office said in a statement.

Both agents were investigating Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the leader of the
powerful Juarez cartel who is nicknamed ``Lord of the Skies'' for the huge
quantities of cocaine he allegedly flies from Colombia, via Mexico, to the
United States.

``The agents ... were in particular involved in trying to locate homes used
by Carrillo Fuentes and other members of his gang,'' the statement said.

Mexico City daily Reforma said on Sunday that both bodies showed signs that
they were executed.

Carrillo made headlines recently because he is alleged to have paid off
Mexico's top antidrug official, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, now jailed on
drugs charges. The charges soured relations between Mexico and the United
States.

Mexican police have since stepped up efforts to capture the drug capo but he
has so far proven elusive. In January, army troops raided his sister's
wedding, but Carrillo was reportedly tipped off beforehand by a highranking
army officer.