Officials find decapitated men, threats against drug cartel leader in Mexico

09:45 AM CDT on Saturday, July 5, 2008 MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they have found the bodies of three decapitated men accompanied by a dead snake and threatening messages. A report from the state prosecutor's office obtained by The Associated Press says the bodies were found Friday in a car trunk in Culiacán, capital of the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. They were mutilated and bullet-ridden. The discovery comes just two days after four other decapitated bodies were found in the city. Authorities say the messages found with the bodies Friday contained threats against Arturo Beltrán Leyva, a reputed leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel. They have not identified the victims. A note found near the heads of the dead earlier in the week threatened Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán, head of the Sinaloa cartel. He escaped from a... [read full story]