Mexican police arrested in missing journalist case

(Vatican Radio) Thirteen Municipal police officers in the Eastern Mexican state of Vera Cruz have been arrested in connection to the disappearance of a journalist. James Blears reports that he worked for a publication which exposes corruption and drug related violence.

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The Vera Cruz Attorney General's Office confirms that 13 Municipal police officers from the town of Medellin de Bravo have been arrested. They're being questioned in connection with the abduction of Moises Sanchez Cerezo on 2 January from his home, by nine heavily armed men. His family say the gunmen also seized a computer, a camera and cellphones.

Sánchez worked for the weekly magazine The Unión, which delves into organized crime. Colleagues, who've held a protest rally, say he'd received previous threats.
Forensic tests are being focused upon two bodies which have been found locally.
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says that 97 journalists have been murdered or disappeared throughout Mexico, since 2010.
 

Mexico's Drug War, which is now in its ninth year, has cost more than 100,000 lives.