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AFP News Briefs ListMexico drug gang plans to use look-alike in Guatemala jail break: reports
Guatemalan police discovered a breakout plan in which a look-alike was due to replace the suspected deputy leader of a Mexican drug gang in jail, local media reported Friday.
The look-alike was due to swap places with Daniel Perez Rojas, the suspected deputy leader of the Mexican Zeta drug gang, during a prison visit, reports said.
Rojas was imprisoned in Guatemala on March 25 after a shootout which killed more than 10 people in the capital of the Central American country.
The Zetas, the armed wing of the powerful Mexican Gulf cartel, had planned to replace Rojas with Manuel Pachelo Ramirez, who has similar features to the prisoner and was thought to have entered Guatemala on August 20, police told the Prensa Libre daily.
Police arrested Ramirez, carrying Guatemalan identity papers, in the south of the city after a search lasting several days, reports said. They also found Mexican identity papers and a 12 caliber pistol at his lodgings.
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A Guatemalan police officer carries packages containing cocaine in Guatemala City in April 2008. Guatemalan police discovered a breakout plan in which a look-alike was due to replace the suspected deputy leader of a Mexican drug gang in jail, local media reported Friday.
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