DNA Tests Identify Slain Man as Drug Lord
DNA tests confirm that a man killed last month during a shootout with police was Ramon Arellano Felix, one of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives and a suspected leader of Mexico’s most brutal drug gang, prosecutors said.
Assistant Atty. Gen. Jose Jorge Campos told a news conference that Mexican authorities compared blood from Ramon’s jailed brother, Benjamin, with DNA evidence taken from bloodstains on the shirt and shorts of a man who died in a firefight with police in Mazatlan on Feb. 10.
The dead man had been carrying documents that identified him as Jorge Perez Lopez.
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