Mayor in Mexico faces drug charges
Posted: September 6, 2009 at 5:01 a.m.
Federal police detained a smalltown mayor Friday on suspicion of aiding drug traffickers in the same western Mexico state where eight other city chiefs have been arrested since May on similar charges.
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