NEW : Gang targets police station where Arnoldo Lazaro Cardenas was being held . `` Leyzaola has become the poster boy for honest police work , which has put the drug gangs on notice , '' Vicente Calderon , a reporter for the Tijuana Press news agency , told CNN affiliate KUSI . Attacks were reprisals for capture of member of Notimex news gang . Series of coordinated attacks in 2 cities kills 2 federal officers , at least eight soldiers . Officials call the coordinated attacks an unprecedented onslaught by drug gangs .
NEW : Gang targets police station where Arnoldo Lazaro Cardenas was being held . Attacks were reprisals for capture of member of Notimex news gang . Series of coordinated attacks in 2 cities kills 2 federal officers , at least eight soldiers . Officials call the coordinated attacks an unprecedented onslaught by drug gangs .