Borderland Beat
Written byAurora Vega for Excelsior
Miguel Treviño Morales, Z-40, stole the body of Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, El Lazca, killed on Sunday during a confrontation with Navy elements, from the Garcia Funeral Home in Sabinas, Coahuila, according to information from Secretariat of Marines (SEMAR).
PGR AND MARINES SEARCH
FOR THE BODY OF THE ZETA LEADER
He was at a baseball game in which a relative of his girlfriend was playing, a citizen at the game called authorities complaining gunmen were at the game
Authorities:
“Z-40 didn’t betray Lazcano, he stole the body”.
Authorities accepted that the
fall of the leader of the Zetas was fortuitous, since marines were unaware
of the identity of the body killed in the town of Progreso,Coahuila.
Miguel Treviño Morales, Z-40, stole the body of Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, El Lazca, killed on Sunday during a confrontation with Navy elements, from the Garcia Funeral Home in Sabinas, Coahuila, according to information from Secretariat of Marines (SEMAR).
Additionaly,
SEMAR officially recognized that there was a third person implied in the
shootout but he managed to escape; it is alleged to have been a guard of the
principal leader of the Zetas Cartel.
They
also accepted that the fall of the criminal was fortuitous, since the marines were unaware
of the identity of the body killed in the town of Progreso, Coahuila, explained
the vice admiral Jose Luis Vergara Ibarra, spokesman.
Employees
of PGR informed that they already have the expert information given by the
state authority and that the government of the U.S solicited samples if DNA
that were managed to be retrieved from
the body to help in the identification.
Z-40 IS INDICATED IN THE
ROBBERY OF THE BODY
Intelligence
reports affirmed that Miguel Treviño Morales continued under the orders of
Heriberto Lazcano.
Secretariat
of Marines (SEMAR) has indicators that the body of the drug trafficker
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, leader of the Zetas, was rescued by the second in
command, Miguel Treviño Morales, El Z-40, ast Monday from the funeral home in the
municipality of Sabinas, where the autopsy was conducted.
Due
to this action, intelligence reports of the Mexican Army revealed that Lazcano
and Z-40 always operated in common agreement and that the second in command of
the criminal organization was always his top henchman.
Information
of the federal dependency revealed that the criminal organization of the Zetas
had some rearrangements and restructuration due to splits of some cells of that
cartel caused by conflict with the leadership of Miguel Treviño Morales. One of
the events that confirm the rupture is the violent events that occurred on
August in San Luis Potosi.
The
rupture between Ivan Velazquez Caballero, aka El Taliban/or Z-50, and Miguel
Treviño Morales provoked a series of executions and violent acts that
culminated with the arrest of the Velazquez Caballero.
Mexican
authorities initially thought the rupture was between Lazcano and Miguel Treviño; however,
the reports of the Army revealed that such a rupture never occurred, further
reporting that Z-40 was who took the
body of his boss to protect it.
Meanwhile,
employees of the PGR revealed that the federal dependency accomplishes conclusions
from the expert evidence given by the Attorney
of Justice of the State of Coahuila, as well as from the Mexican Army, and 10 expert evidence tests will be made to
determine the identity of the drug trafficker, though fingerprints, and expert
photography examinations have concluded with the positive identification.
SUPPORT FROM THE U.S
It
was revealed that the American authorities asked the Mexican government, some
samples of DNA of Heriberto Lazcano to help the identification.
According
to employees of the PGR that made a recount of events of the operation in which
the leader of the Zetas cartel was killed, it is revealed that the naval elements took
about half hour in arriving to the place where there was a complaint from a
citizen about the presence of armed men,
for which 18 elements went to the location.
According
to investigations of the federal dependency, it has been obtained declarations
of witnesses that mention the presence of Heriberto Lazcano in a baseball field
in the community of Progreso, Coahuila, due to the presence of a relative of
his sentimental partner (girlfriend) that was playing that Sunday.
After
the operation where the leader of the Zetas was killed, it is specified that he
was accompanying by two persons: a driver and a person that escaped at the time
of the confrontation.
According
to the ministerial acts, the body of Lazcano was taken to a funeral home in
Sabinas where it was stolen by a commando.
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| Lazca built his mausoleum 2 years ago |
The
Attorney General of Justice of Coahuila, Homero Ramos Gloria, confirmed the
arrival to Coahuila, of a group of elements of the General Attorney (PGR) to
recover the body of Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, El Lazca.
The
state employee stated that he received a call from the Attorney Maricela
Morales, whom confirmed the arrival of at least 20 elements, which arrived
accompanied by personnel of the Secretariat of Navy of Mexico.
He
emphasized that a line of investigation exists from the Federation to locate
the body of El Lazca.
He
detailed that in the Attorney of the State, it was developed a meeting with the
federal attorneys, Federal Public Ministries and Experts.
A
group remained in Saltillo to corroborate the data that is irrefutable of the
body of Lazcano.
He
added that it is presumed that the body of Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano hasn’t
left the state of Coahuila.
FINDING LAZCA WAS
FORTUITOUS: SEMAR
In
an interview with Adela Micha for Grupo Imagen Multimedia (Multimedia Image
Group), the spokesman of SEMAR explained that three criminals initiated the
confrontation after seeing the arrival of the federal units. From the first
gunfire, one of the elements was injured.
After
the vehicle of the delinquents stopped with the driver dead, a persecution on
foot against two people began, “one person managed to escape, and the second
one was killed. We found out till the following day that it was Heriberto
Lazcano Lazcano.”
According
to the marines, the gathering of expert evidence and lifting of the body is
explicit task of the corresponding Public Ministry and of the General Attorney
of Justice of Coahuila.
