By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat Two police officers were gunned down in separate events in Mexicali, Baja California this weekend. State authorities claim these attacks are linked to recent operations against Los Rusos, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. In the first attack, Rubén López Orduño, an intelligence officer with the Fuerza Estatal de Seguridad Ciudadana (State Citizen Security Force - FESC), was ambushed alongside his wife in Tijuana, Baja California.