MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A routine police inspection of a vehicle in violence-torn Ciudad Juarez led to the arrest of two murder suspects.
Authorities say the pair climbed out of an SUV with pistols tucked into their waistbands.
Federal police said in a statement Friday that officers had asked two men to step out of a Jeep Cherokee without license plates.
Noticing pistols tucked in the men's waistbands, the officers ran their names through a computer and found they were wanted for possible links to 20 murders.
Juarez is across the border from El Paso, Texas, and is the most violent city in Mexico as drug cartels battle for turf.
Authorities say 2,600 people were killed there last year in cartel-related violence, and several were arrested for multiple murders.
However, no one was prosecuted there last year for homicide related to organized crime.
Meanwhile in the southwest Mexico state of Michoacan, police are investigating the murders of two women in the past two days.
The bullet-riddled bodies, which also showed signs of torture, have not been identified. They were tossed near bushes, one near a farm, another near a canal.
Both women had notes pinned to their bodies that police said claimed responsibility by a cartel.
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