Mexican Troops Detain Illegal Loggers - AP

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Source: Associated Press

Mexican Troops Detain Illegal Loggers
By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer

June 11, 2007, 10:05 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police and soldiers arrested
three men Monday during an operation to fight illegal
logging in a mountain region south of Mexico City where
an environmentalist was killed last month.

More than 1,000 officers, soldiers and federal agents
fanned out across the township of Ocuilan, whose
residents have waged a six-year battle against loggers
cutting down one of central Mexico's last big fir forests.

Police in Mexico state, which borders the area, said
they detained Everardo Garcia Martinez, 52, Raul Flores
Gonzalez, 50, and Eric Garcia Gallegos, 20, as they
drove a truck packed with more than two tons of
illegally taken dirt -- a byproduct of logging.

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Environmentalists, however, doubted the raid would solve
the problem of logging or find Zamora's killers.

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