Arrests target Mexico drug cartels - Americas - Al Jazeera English

Arrests target Mexico drug cartels - Americas - Al Jazeera English: "19 suspected drug gang members have been arrested in a series of raids across Mexico's northern states.

Among those detained on Friday was a 29-year-old man suspected of involvement in a car bombing in Ciudad Juarez, the first such attack in they city at the heart of much of the drug-related violence that has left at least 28,000 people dead since 2006.
The man confessed to participating in the July 15 attack on federal police as part of 'La Linea' - an armed gang linked to the powerful Juarez cartel, a public security ministry statement said on Friday.

Four other members of the same were also detained, suspected of killing two police officers in a separate incident, the ministry said.
Luis Cardenas, the regional security chief for the federal police, said that the group killed two federal officers in Juarez last week. One of the officers had apparently been hacked to death.

Most killings in Ciudad Juarez are attributed to disputes between the Juarez and Sinaloa gangs over control of lucrative drug trafficking routes into the United States"