Title: Mexican federal police: Juárez mayor’s guards looked like organized crime gunmen
Source: El Paso Times
Date: May 5, 2011
Byline: Marisela Ortega Lozano
The El Paso Times reports that the Mexican Department of Public Safety stated that Juárez mayor Héctor Murguía’s body guards looked like “organized crime gunmen”, and that is why they were stopped.
The paper quotes a federal police statement as stating that at 3:00 they came upon a “convoy of heavy armed individuals riding in three vehicles and speeding, looking and behaving like organized crime gunmen,” the official said in a statement.
The paper goes on to report that after asking for backup, the federal officers stopped the convoy, at which time passengers on the “second vehicle identified themselves verbally as local police officers, but they didn’t produce any badge or identification”.
The report adds that Murguía got out from one of the vehicles and that is when the confrontation started. The news article states that Murguía alleges that his bodyguards produced their police badges to federal officers, although the federal statement denies this.