Raids Aim to Find Killers of 3 in Mexico

Some 200 American law enforcement agents cracked down Thursday morning on a notorious gang in El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to determine whether its heavily armed members were behind the shooting deaths of three people connected to the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez over the weekend.

Some 200 American law enforcement agents cracked down Thursday morning on a notorious gang in El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to determine whether its heavily armed members were behind the shooting deaths of three people connected to the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez over the weekend.

The raids involved agents from several federal agencies, and about 50 members of the Barrio Azteca gang were taken in for questioning, according to Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman for the F.B.I. field office in El Paso.

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