Our Eric Lach is trying to rundown the conflicting reports that the lead Mexican investigator on the “lake pirates” case along the Texas-Mexico border has been beheaded. The initial reports began to emerge within the last couple of hours from the offices of elected representatives along the border on the U.S. side, but they were vaguely and loosely attributed.
No one on the Mexican side was confirming, at least initially. In fact, CNN quoted Ruben Dario-Rios, a spokesman for the attorney general of Tamaulipas state in Mexico, saying, “We have not heard any report about one of our investigators being killed. We have over 1,000 investigators working for the state.”
Now we’re seeing a report in the south Texas Monitor saying that a spokesperson for the attorney general of Tamaulipas named Ruben Dario Rios Lopez (presumably the same guy) has confirmed the death:
Rios did not have any details about Flores’ death but assured that it had nothing to do with the Hartley probe. The spokesman offered no basis for that assurance, however, and said Mexican officials need Young-Hartley to meet with them and file a complaint in the city of Miguel Aleman.
I’m sure the family will race down there now to file that complaint. More soon.
