Gypsy Jan - 10-11-2012 at 03:20 PM
From The Associated Press
Mexico's Navy says that marines that killed drug lord Heriberto Lazcano did not know it was him, but rather just a common criminal.
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Mexican marines killed drug lord Heriberto Lazcano
Navy spokesman claims marines though Lazcano was a 'common criminal'
Fingerprint testing confirmed dead body was Lazcano
MEXICO CITY (AP) - "The Mexican navy says a team of marines had no idea that they had killed the leader of the country's most-feared drug cartel in a
gunfight that erupted when they tried to search a group of suspicious men outside a baseball stadium.
Rear Admiral Jose Luis Vergara is the chief navy spokesman and he said in radio and television interviews Wednesday that Heriberto Lazcano's body was
left at a funeral home after Sunday's gunfight because marines believed he was a common criminal and didn't suspect that had just taken down the
leader of the Zetas cartel.
Vergara said authorities only realized they had killed a significant figure when armed men stole the body from the funeral home. Fingerprint testing
confirmed the dead man was Lazcano."