Acapulco, Mexico – Armed men presumably linked to organized crime abducted a former national legislator on one of the main streets of this crime-plagued resort and shortly afterward shot him to death and dumped his body on the roadside, authorities said.
The victim was Juan Jose Nogueda, a former member of Congress for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
He was kidnapped Wednesday while accompanied by his secretary on the seaside Miguel Aleman Avenue, officials said. They said the woman, whose identity was not immediately provided, was not harmed.
A half hour after the abduction, Nogueda’s body, with three gunshot wounds, was found in the Acapulco neighborhood of Caleta.
Police said the modus operandi of the killers indicated a possible link to narcotics traffickers who have been blamed for a series of grisly torture-murders in this Pacific coast city in recent weeks, including the beheading of police officers.
