Mexico says drug lord taken down by accident
MEXICO CITY – 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 just 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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Rear Admiral Jose Vergara is refreshingly honest even though it may seem that his honesty was needed only to explain the loss of the head of the cartel’s body. The local police who decided to investigate the “suspicious” group of men are heroes who died and otherwise risked their lives for their fellow citizens in their attempt to keep them safe.