Police chief in Mexcio dies by suicide as troops close in to arrest him during anticorruption raid

The police chief in a small town in central Mexico took his own life Friday as troops closed in to arrest him as part of anticorruption raids that also detained several other top police commanders and the mayor of another town.

The raids took place in two rural towns in the State of Mexico, west of Mexico City, as well as in two populous suburbs right on the edge of the country's capital.

State prosecutors said the police chief of the one of the rural towns, Texcaltitlan, killed himself with his own weapon as marines, National Guard and soldiers closed in to try to arrest him on unspecified charges.