Might want to rethink those travel plans if you thought the popular vacation destination was safe!
Mexican authorities investigating how one of their elite federal drug enforcement agents was kidnapped and killed near Cancun. The murder comes days after cartel gunmen kidnapped two others in the coastal state of Nayarit.
Mexican federal law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas that late last week, 27-year-old Hugo Enrique Rafael Peña went missing and was discovered hours later–shot multiple times, blindfolded with tape, and hands tied. According to police file 65/2018, authorities found 11 9mm bullet casings at the scene.
Peña, a Mexican Federal Police agent, had been working undercover targeting the street-level distribution of drugs in Cancun, Quintana Roo. His murder comes shortly after the Mexican government deployed nearly 300 federal officers to bolster patrols in the tourist hotspot. The measure comes after the city saw 38 murders in January and more than 200 tied to cartel activity in 2017.
The murder of the federal police officer comes days after two federal investigators were kidnapped in Nayarit. As Breitbart Texas reported, cartel gunmen forced the agents to make a video where they claimed the government was unlawfully victimizing organized crime…