General in Mexico Police Force Arrested
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MEXICO CITY — An army general who was the third-ranking officer in the Mexico City police force was fired and arrested for his suspected role in the slaying of six youths, officials said Saturday.
Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello became the fourth high-ranking police official with an army background to fall in the widening scandal, which led to pitched battles between army and police forces Wednesday and Thursday.
More than two dozen members of elite police units have been jailed on suspicion of a role in the deaths of the six men, ages 17 to 23, whose tortured bodies were dumped in two areas of the city in September.
The case also fueled a renewed debate over the army’s role in the police force two weeks before the first elected mayor of Mexico City in modern history is about to take office.
Tello was replaced by another army general, Victor Arturo Jurado Gonzalez.
Mexican newspapers reported Saturday that Tello was being confined to a military base.
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