<p> A former police officer has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old boy and the rape of his 15-year-old girlfriend last month, Mexican officials said.<br /><br />Pedro Luis Becerril is a former member of the police department in Chimalhuacan, a city in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.<br /><br />Becerril was a fugitive since Feb 22, when the murder and rape occurred in Chimalhuacan, Mexico state Attorney General Miguel Angel Contreras said.<br />The former police officer was arrested in the southern state of Oaxaca and taken to a prison, Contreras said.<br /><br />Three police officers found the teenage couple sitting inside a vehicle in the early morning hours of Feb 22.<br /><br />The officers asked the couple to get out of the car so they could question them.<br />Two of the officers spoke with the young man while a third officer took the young woman to a nearby location and sexually assaulted her, investigators said.<br /><br />The officers then released the couple and the young woman went home and told her relatives what happened.<br /><br />The family sought help from neighbours and the group found the officers in their patrol car.<br /><br />The young man was shot and killed during a confrontation with the officers, the AG's office said.</p>.<p>Authorities are still looking for the other two officers involved in the incident.<br />Becerril had worked as a Chimalhuacan municipal police officer for four years, but the other two men had joined the force two days before the incident occurred.<br /><br />The case rocked Mexico, where many municipal police officers are prosecuted every year for committing crimes or assisting drug cartels and other criminal organizations. <br /></p>
<p> A former police officer has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old boy and the rape of his 15-year-old girlfriend last month, Mexican officials said.<br /><br />Pedro Luis Becerril is a former member of the police department in Chimalhuacan, a city in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.<br /><br />Becerril was a fugitive since Feb 22, when the murder and rape occurred in Chimalhuacan, Mexico state Attorney General Miguel Angel Contreras said.<br />The former police officer was arrested in the southern state of Oaxaca and taken to a prison, Contreras said.<br /><br />Three police officers found the teenage couple sitting inside a vehicle in the early morning hours of Feb 22.<br /><br />The officers asked the couple to get out of the car so they could question them.<br />Two of the officers spoke with the young man while a third officer took the young woman to a nearby location and sexually assaulted her, investigators said.<br /><br />The officers then released the couple and the young woman went home and told her relatives what happened.<br /><br />The family sought help from neighbours and the group found the officers in their patrol car.<br /><br />The young man was shot and killed during a confrontation with the officers, the AG's office said.</p>.<p>Authorities are still looking for the other two officers involved in the incident.<br />Becerril had worked as a Chimalhuacan municipal police officer for four years, but the other two men had joined the force two days before the incident occurred.<br /><br />The case rocked Mexico, where many municipal police officers are prosecuted every year for committing crimes or assisting drug cartels and other criminal organizations. <br /></p>