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Sun 8 Aug, 2004 11:13 am
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two Mexicans from a "Most Wanted" list released to great fanfare by the government last week have already been tracked down -- in jail.
Alfredo Cervantes Ramirez, also known as "The Bullet-swallower," and Alvaro Dario de Leon Valdes were withdrawn from the list after officials discovered they were already in prison, the Mexico City prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
The state prosecutor's office put out a statement saying it "recognizes and values the unmatched cooperation of the citizens and authorities of the country ... which allowed us to locate these two dangerous evil-doers, who are already in jail."
Somehow that sounds like the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. LOL.
That's funny. Thanks Col Man. You do provide smiles to everyone along with the interesting reading.
I agree! I can't understand why the prisoners weren't registered, as every prisoner in Mexico, or anywhere, should be...
the sad part is that it happens in the US all the time, less now with the fingerprint registry. but, many who are arrested give a false name and without further documentation or ID it's hard to pin them down until they are in the system and their fingerprints match.
Makes you wonder who is working on all that. I expect that if we in the US have a slow mechanism to catch up with the system, Mexico's is probably a LOT slower.
But it's still a head-shaker.
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