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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican police and soldiers arrested three men Monday during an operation to fight illegal logging in a mountain region south of Mexico City where an environmentalist was killed last month.
More than 1,000 officers, soldiers and federal agents fanned out across the township of Ocuilan, whose residents have waged a six-year battle against loggers cutting down one of central Mexico's last big fir forests.
Police in Mexico state, which borders the area, said they detained Everardo Garcia Martinez, 52, Raul Flores Gonzalez, 50, and Eric Garcia Gallegos, 20, as they drove a truck packed with more than two tons of illegally taken dirt — a byproduct of logging.
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