DRUG BUST

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Soldiers arrested the deputy police chief of a
Mexican resort town and six other officers who were allegedly
protecting drug cartel members at a cock fight, the Defense Department
said Thursday.

Fourteen suspected members of the Beltran Leyva drug gang were
arrested at the cock fight in Zihuatanejo, a Pacific beach town
popular with tourist, the Defense Department said in a statement.

Soldiers also seized 59 packets of cocaine, 40 bags of marijuana and
20 assault rifles. Seven heavily armed police officers had been
guarding the suspected drug traffickers, the department said.

They included Zihuananejo's deputy police chief, Timoteo Mata Cruz.