Mexican police arrest 2 suspects after being attacked

March 2, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Federal police made two arrests and confiscated weapons and marijuana Sunday in Tijuana, across the U.S. border from San Diego, after coming under attack by men linked to a drug cartel.

Police said one of the suspects told them they worked for “the engineer,” an apparent reference to a leader of the Arellano Felix drug cartel.

Officers, who were not injured in the attack, seized three assault rifles, pistols and bundles of marijuana.

Mexico is experiencing a wave of violence tied to drug gangs, especially in border states and other areas known as hotbeds of narcotics trafficking. The government says more than 1,000 people were killed during the first eight weeks of the year.

In the southern state of Guerrero on Sunday, police reported finding a badly burned body, apparently from a fire fueled by tires, in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.