Killed Drug Cartel Chief’s Corpse Stolen

October 9, 2012

Somebody’s going to get their ash kicked for this. (Get it? Ash kicked? Okay. Sorry.)

Lazcano, also known as “the executioner”, was killed in a gun battle with marines on Sunday in Progreso, some 125km (80 miles) west of the Texan border in Coahuila state, the navy said.

It added that fingerprints and photographs of the body were taken before it was handed over to the local authorities in Coahuila.

Early on Monday, a group of armed men raided the funeral parlour where the corpse was being kept, and stole it, attorney general Homero Ramos told a news conference on Tuesday.

Who said the Wild West was dead?