TalkBaja.com » Baja Mexico Forums » Baja News Wire

Mexicos crime wave has left about 25,000 missing, government documents show - The Washington Post

Found by reading this god-awful article.
Borderland Beat: Vanished: The Disappeared of Mexico's Drug War. Why can't the Government Find Them?

"...met at the front desk by a plainclothes cop..."Don't worry," the cop assured her. "He'll turn up soon."...eventually agreed to look...her son Israel was there after all. He was just being "slapped around a little" to teach him a lesson and would be released the next afternoon...

...cop said in a low voice, "You know what happens to people who talk too much."...

...what about the assurances of the plainclothes officer, Luz asked, describing the man.

"We have no idea who you're talking about," the officer told her...

...father was driving along the road where Israel had been taken when a truck drove by that looked like his son's. He followed it...to the door....man who answered...was a former cop...fired a year earlier after failing a polygraph test used to weed out corrupt officers. Since then...working full-time for the Zetas...

...one of the many bars the Zetas ran was the one where Israel and his friends stopped...argued with the manager about the tab...

...the cop assigned to patrol car 131...handed Israel and his three friends over to the Zetas...

...Asked who might know what happened to her son..."This man knows,"...the plainclothes officer from the police station..."working from the front desk..."...

...she wanted the government to put up a plaque at the entrance to the Benito Juárez police station. "It should say that police officers who worked here were convicted for the disappearance of Israel Arenas Durán," Luz said. "I want every police officer who walks in that door to have to read those words."...

...A plaque, however, has not been put up..."