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[*] posted on 10-11-2012 at 03:20 PM
Mexico says drug lord taken down by accident


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."




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