| Police supervisor arrested in Mexico City murder 04/10/2001 Associated Press MEXICO CITY – A supervisor of mounted police has been arrested on suspicion of killing a neighborhood activist who had campaigned against crime.
Police supervisor Jose Roberto Ortega y Villasenor was arrested Monday and was being held Tuesday at Mexico City's eastern prison.
City officials said he was suspected of killing Bernarda Paula Jasso, whose shot and stabbed body was discovered on April 1, a day days after she disappeared on March 31.
Jasso was a leader of the Primavera neighborhood committee in southern Mexico City. The daily Reforma reported she had received several death threats due to her role in promoting the arrest of several local crime figures.
Officials said that neighbors had reported that a man in a car seemed to be shadowing Jasso the day of her death. They traced the car to Ortega and in it found traces of blood matching Jasso's type and of food that Jasso had purchased.
Meanwhile, Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday announced a new program aimed at improving police training and equipment in the fight against organized crime.
He said neighborhood committees of the sort Jasso had led would be encouraged to form citizens' security councils.
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