FOXNews.com - Drug Gang Enforcer Admits Ordering U.S. Consulate Worker's Killing, Mexico Says

FOXNews.com - Drug Gang Enforcer Admits Ordering U.S. Consulate Worker's Killing, Mexico Says: "MEXICO CITY -- A drug-cartel enforcer told Mexican police that a rival gang infiltrated the biggest U.S. consulate along the border through a worker who helped get them U.S. visas, and that he ordered her killed for it. An American official rejected the claim Friday and said the motive for the slaying remains unknown.

The employee, Lesley Enriquez, was among three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez who were killed March 13 in attacks that raised concerns that Americans were being caught up in the drug-related violence raging in that border city and across Mexico.

Jesus Ernesto Chavez, whose arrest was announced Friday, confessed to ordering the killings, said Ramon Pequeno, the head of anti-narcotics for the Federal Police. Pequeno said Chavez leads a band of hit men for a street gang tied to the Juarez cartel.

Enriquez and her husband were killed in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, as they drove toward a border crossing. Chavez also is accused in a nearly simultaneous attack that killed the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate.

Pequeno said Chavez told police that Enriquez was targeted because she helped provide visas to a rival gang.