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High-ranking Mexican police official is arrested in attack on CIA operatives

By Richard Fausset and Cecilia Sanchez, Los Angeles Times –

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that a high-ranking federal police officer had been arrested in the case of two CIA operatives who were attacked south of Mexico City in August. He is the 15th member of the federal police to be detained in the incident.

Federal Police Inspector General Juan Manuel Pacheco Salgado was arrested Monday on suspicion of giving false information during the investigation of the attack, in which Mexican police officers fired more than 100 bullets into the CIA operatives’ SUV, according to a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office.

Pacheco was not involved in the attack, the spokesperson said.

The CIA operatives were driving through dangerous territory in the armored SUV, which had diplomatic plates, and were accompanied by an officer from the Mexican navy when they were assaulted by a group of plainclothes officers.

The prosecutor’s office, in charging the other officers last week, said the attackers “intended to take the lives” of the three victims, all of whom survived. The motive for the attack remains unclear.

The case has been a major embarrassment for the administration of outgoing President Felipe Calderon, who has been trying to clean up and strengthen Mexico’s federal police force.

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