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Two Tijuana Cops Under Investigation in Connection with Saturday's Shootout

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter,  KPBS Public Broadcasting
Published April 30, 2008 at 11:59 AM PDT
This story was published more than 16 years ago.

Authoritesin Tijuana are investigating two state policemen in connection with Saturday's bloody shootout. Authorities say a municipal policeman is among the dead in the gun battle between rival drug

Authoritesin Tijuana  are investigating two state policemen in connection with Saturday's bloody shootout. Authorities say a municipal policeman is among the dead in the gun battle  between rival drug gangs. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has the story.

Police investigators in Tijuana are looking into whether a pair of state police officials participated in Saturday's bloody gun battle.

The shootout was one of the worst in recent border history and claimed 13 lives.

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Baja California's Attorney General said in a press release that a police car found at the scene is assigned to one of the state policemen now under investigation. The Attorney General says they found the policeman's guns inside the car. The release did not say what ties the other policeman to the crime.

Both agents haven't shown up for work since Sunday. The Attorney General says their families don't know where they are either.

So far, authorities have identified four of Saturday's dead. Three have prior criminal records.

Authorities have still not said who or what's to blame for Saturday's killings.

However, its widely believed a power struggle between members of Tijuana's Arellano Felix Drug Cartel led to the carnage.

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Amy Isackson, KPBS News.

Amy Isackson
Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.
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