WASHINGTON — FBI agents and police swooped Thursday on suspected members of a gang thought to be involved in the slaying of three people linked to the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an official said.
Some 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers launched raids early Thursday in southern New Mexico and around the Texas border city of El Paso, targeting suspected members of the Barrio Azteca gang, Rusty Payne, a spokesman for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told AFP.
The raids, called "Operation Knockdown", were part of "an ongoing effort to generate leads and intelligence regarding the investigation into Saturday's murders" in Mexico's notorious crime capital, Ciudad Juarez, Payne said...
