The corpses were found at dawn in a parking lot in the Pacific port of Mazatlan, said Guadalupe Martinez, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office in Sinaloa.
Aiming to add information on its feeding ecology in the SE Gulf of California, we determined the stomach contents of specimens of this species caught by the artisanal fishing fleet operating off Mazatlan, Sinaloa, and NW Mexico.
Under pressure, the 56-year-old drug capo, who had been on the run since escaping from prison 13 years ago, fled further south to the beach resort city of Mazatlan. It was there that the elite marine unit captured him on Saturday, in the fourth floor of a condominium, with a surprisingly small entourage that included one lookout, one bodyguard and a woman believed to be his beauty-queen wife, the US official said.