Metro

Mexico help in NYPD slay hunt

NYPD officers have conferred with top-level Mexican officials in their effort to hunt down the killer of a beloved soccer coach, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

Manhattan South homicide detectives and Intelligence Division officers met in Mexico City Monday with Carlos Diaz de Leon Martinez, the head of Interpol in Mexico.

Diaz de Leon and other authorities promised to aid the NYPD probe, and have already begun searching for suspect Orlando Orea-Gutierrez, the sources said.

Orea-Gutierrez, 31, fled to Mexico two days after he allegedly killed Michael Jones, 25, on a Greenwich Village sidewalk. Jones, a British national, lived in Westchester County., coached youth programs for the Red Bull pro-soccer team.

Mexican officials say when they find Orea-Gutierrez, they’ll put him under surveillance and notify the NYPD, said sources.

“We were dealing with the highest levels of the Mexican government, which was trying to conduct this investigation quietly so we don’t scare off the perp,” said one source.