STATE DEPT. URGED TO PROBE MEXICO ALCOHOL INCIDENTS

The chairman of a key Senate committee called on the State Department to get answers on how a 20-year-old Wisconsin woman drowned in the pool of a Mexican resort and how others were injured after consuming alcohol at resort bars.

In a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., urged the department to “do everything in its power to obtain information from the Mexican government” about the death of Abbey Conner in January and other incidents.

Johnson chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. He sent the letter to Tillerson on Wednesday.

The action came in the wake of a USA TODAY Network investigation into the death of Conner — and a host of other injuries involving vacationers who blacked out after drinking at the resorts and woke up hours later.