Mexico mourns police commander killed in Cancun

Officials in the Mexican resort of Cancun say a local police commander has been killed, and they’re denying accusations by a drug cartel that they favored a rival gang.

The decapitated body of José Antonio Archi Yama was found over the weekend on a dirt road in Cancun. He served in the nearby resort Playa del Carmen.

Archi Yama had been kidnapped days earlier.

An unverified video of Archi Yama posted on social media purportedly shows him confessing that he detained members of the Jalisco cartel to allow another gang to take over.

The governor of Quintana Roo state wrote late Sunday that “we will continue combatting crime with full force.”

But Gov. Carlos Joaquín acknowledged that authorities in the past had “formed alliances” with criminals.