1.   The major was aware that the main suspect had been freed on the orders of the opposition leader.

2.   In fact, when the police first began detaining and questioning suspects in the killings, local residents staged huge protests demanding that the suspects be freed.

3.   Last August, Judge Jose Luis Reyes Contreras ruled the confessions and autopsies were conflicting and freed the suspects.

4.   Only one suspect was freed, a man suffering from a heart condition.

5.   Police sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the raiders also freed two suspects.

6.   As word of the uprising spread, hundreds rushed to the scene, freeing the suspects and hauling the officers to a nearby city jail, Lopez said.

7.   But over and over, police see suspects freed on what they consider technicalities.

8.   But they also demonstrated that the tribunal is prepared to free indicted suspects if the cases against them prove insufficient.

9.   He accused justice officials of undermining police work by favoring or even freeing prominent suspects.

10.   He remains in custody, but the other three suspects were freed last month for what prosecutors said was a lack of evidence.