Guatemalan pro football player found chopped up

Guatemalan pro football player found chopped up

Published Nov. 28, 2010 5:31 p.m. ET

Police in Guatemala have found the body of a professional football player chopped up and left in five plastic bags in a rural area.

National Civil Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez says the remains were found Sunday with a message saying the player was killed for ''messing with other women.''

The spokesman says investigators are trying to determine whether that was the real reason for the slaying of Carlos Mercedes Vasquez, who played for Malacateco in Guatemala's first-division football league.

Gonzalez says the body was found in the rural community of Malcatan a day after the 27-yeard-old Mercedes Vasquez was kidnapped while driving with two friends.

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