Mexico: 2 held on suspicion of buying babies to sell

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Police in northern Mexico have arrested a couple accused of buying Mexican babies to sell to U.S. couples for profit, investigators said Wednesday.

Amado Torres, 64, of Harlingen, Texas, and his 25-year-old wife, Maria Isabel Hernandez, are suspected of buying more than a dozen children age 2 or younger, officials said.

Read the Associated Press report here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City