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Article: AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATING ALLEGED MURDER OF NOTORIOUS DRUG-CARTEL LEADER RAMON ARELLANO FELIX.
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- March 6, 2002
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US and Mexican drug authorities are investigating the bizarre circumstances surrounding the possible assassination of notorious drug-cartel leader Ramon Arellano Felix in early February. The newspaper Noroeste reported that Arellano Felix was murdered in a confrontation with state police in the coastal city of Mazatlan, Sinaloa state.
Ramon Arellano was believed to be the Tijuana drug cartel's chief enforcer, with his brother Benjamin Arellano overseeing the cartel's business operations. The two brothers were on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) 10 most-wanted list (see SourceMex, 2000-05-17).
The report said Arellano, posing as a federal ...