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Despite report of planned raid, police who caught Mexican drug capo didn't know who he was

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican police officers who arrested infamous drug suspect Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie," did not initially know who they had caught, according to a booking report obtained Thursday.The Mexican government has depicted the capture of the U.S.-born Valdez as the result of a 1½-year investigation and a carefully planned raid involving agents specially trained abroad.But a copy of the booking report obtained by The Associated Press and other media outlets indicates that while special police teams were in the area where Valdez was caught Aug. 30, the officers who actually detained him were simply following a suspicious vehicle.The report filed by federal police with prosecutors says a police patrol was traveling on a road west of Mexico City that day when a convoy of three vehicles passed at a high rate of speed.The officers, who were not identified in the report, followed the convoy for more than two miles (four kilometers) before the vehicles stopped an...

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