Why is this Mexico Church protesting the arrest a major drug dealer suspected of moving a half ton of crystal?
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MEXICO CITY – Police raided a church service in western Mexico and arrested a man known as “The Truck” who is suspected of moving a half ton of crystal methamphetamine into the United States each month, federal officials said Monday.
Authorities detained Miguel Angel Beraza and another suspect after surrounding a church in Apatzingan in drug-plagued Michoacan state, said Ramon Pequeno, head of the Federal Police’s anti-drug unit. About 40 others at the Mass were brought in for questioning.
DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart said Beraza is a high-ranking lieutenant in the drug cartel known as La Familia and called his arrest the result of the “resolute partnership” between the U.S. and Mexico.
“Together with our Mexican counterparts, we will continue attacking the La Familia Cartel, which not only controls the methamphetamine supply in several U.S. cities, but also has been the source of unprecedented violence in Michoacan,” she said.
Beraza was in charge of La Familia’s methamphetamine shipments to the U.S., hiding the loads in fruit trucks, Pequeno said. Authorities also seized ,000, two assault rifles, several grenades and 130 cell phones as part of the operation.
Auxiliary Bishop Jose Leopoldo Gonzalez of Guadalajara protested the raid during Mass, saying “we believe that the ends do not justify the means used in this and other cases.”
Gonzalez said the parish has been suffering the consequences of violence associated with drug trafficking in the region, but Mass is sacred and must be respected.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090803/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
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Answer by The First Dragon
Understandably, they do not like the Mass to be interrupted this way. They would have preferred the arrest be made before or after Mass, outside the church, as he arrived or left. The church sanctuary and the Mass itself are very sacred in Catholicism.
Also, they would like to think that the drug-related violence will not be brought into the sanctuary itself.
I will not judge whether the police were justified in doing it the way they did. I don’t know whether they could have just as securely arrested The Truck as he was leaving, or not. I do agree that, under most circumstances, police should avoid interrupting a church service to make an arrest. And I don’t imagine that they make a habit of it, even in Michoacan. But there may be times when it is necessary.
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