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Mexican police didn’t know they’d caught drug capo (AP)

September 10th, 2010

Soldiers stand next to weapons seized at a warehouse following a clash in the town of General Trevino, Nuevo Leon State, bordering the United State on September 2. At least four people died in a clash between soldiers and suspected drug gang members in northeastern Mexico, a day after 25 outlaws died in a shootout with soldiers nearby, police said Friday.(AFP/Dario Leon)AP - The Mexican police officers who arrested infamous drug suspect Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “La Barbie,” did not initially know who they had caught, according to a booking report obtained Thursday.


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