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GUATEMALA - Four Guatemalan policemen were arrested yesterday in the murder of three Salvadoran politicians after being linked to the crime by a global positioning system in their vehicle, the Government said.
Luis Herrera, head of a special police unit charged with investigating organised crime, was captured after the GPS receiver in his police truck revealed he had been at the scene of the kidnapping and the site where the bodies were found, authorities said.
Herrera, Jose Adolfo Gutierrez and two others from the unit, were filmed by traffic cameras as they intercepted a car carrying the three members of the Guatemala-based Central American regional parliament and their driver.
The detained policemen "obviously" did not know the GPS was in their vehicle when they carried out the killings, police chief Erwin Sperisen said.
Police are looking for two more agents believed to be part of Herrera's group, which is accused of kidnapping and killing the three congressmen and their driver.
The murdered politicians, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and Jose Ramon Gonzalez, belonged to El Salvador's ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance party, known as ARENA.
The Guatemalan national police and the regional parliament have been mired in drug-trafficking scandals in recent years, with some congressmen accused of using their status to smuggle narcotics.
The two heads of Guatemala's anti-drug unit were convicted in the United States last year of trafficking cocaine.
- REUTERS
