Drug lords go on killing spree to hunt down corrupt officers who stole shipment in Mexico’s Tijuana
A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment.
Two of the officers suspected of the theft have been killed, prosecutors say. But so have at least three other officers, according to the city's former police chief, suggesting the cartel believed to have owned the drugs may have launched a generalized retribution.
It is the latest blow for Tijuana which has the most homicides of any city in , with about double the number of the place that comes second, Texas, which has about the same population, saw 435 killings in 2022.
