Fourteen suspected members of the Beltran Leyva drug gang were arrested at the cockfight in Zihuatanejo

Fourteen suspected members of the Beltran Leyva drug gang were arrested at the cockfight in Zihuatanejo, a Pacific beach town popular with foreign tourists, the Defense Department said in a statement.Soldiers also seized 59 packets of cocaine, 40 bags of marijuana and 20 assault rifles.Seven heavily armed police officers had been guarding the suspected drug traffickers, the department said. They included Zihuatanejo's deputy police chief, Timoteo Mata Cruz.Soldiers arrested the deputy police chief of a Mexican resort town and six other officers who were accused of protecting drug cartel members at a cockfight, the Defense Department said yesterday.

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