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Mexico's Top Drug Cop Assassinated  

Posted May 8, 08 5:10 PM CDT in World    Editor's Choice

(newser) – The official leading Mexico's anti-drug efforts was gunned down early this morning, the Los Angeles Times, shot eight times after arriving at his Mexico City home from work. Mexican outlets reported that the so-called Sinaloa cartel is behind the death of Edgar Millan Gomez, 42; he's the third high-ranking federal law-enforcement official shot in the capital in the past week.

"This morning, Mexico lost one of its most valuable men, a security professional who placed himself at the service of his country," the country's security minister said of Gomez, who, with a college degree and experience as a UN peacekeeper, was a symbol of President Felipe Calderon's reform efforts. One man, wearing gloves and carrying a silenced gun, was arrested at the scene.

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Mexico's Top Drug Cop Assassinated
Edgar Millan Gomez was pursuing the Sinaloa drug cartel, which reports in Mexican newspapers linked to his assassination early today.   (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Mexico's Top Drug Cop Assassinated
Federal police officers patrol the entrance to the hospital where Mexico's anti-drug chief, Edgar Millan Gomez, died after being shot outside his home in Mexico City early today.   (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
Mexico's Top Drug Cop Assassinated
Edgar Millan Gomez, coordinator of Mexico's anti-drug efforts, was killed today in Mexico City   (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)
Mexico's Top Drug Cop Assassinated
In this July 5, 1999 file photo, "Rook," a drug-sniffing police dog, tries to jump over a load of cocaine on the loading dock of the Putnam County sheriff's department in Greencastle, Ind.   (AP Photo/Chuck Robinson)
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