Mexico Detains 15-Year-Old in Drug Murders

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM ET

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican police have detained a 15-year-old boy who allegedly has confessed to running a drug trafficking gang on the Caribbean island of Isla Mujeres and murdering two women drug dealers.

It is the second time in a year that a young male has been detained in Mexico as a purported drug gang killer. Last November, soldiers detained a 14-year-old U.S. citizen who confessed to killing four people whose beheaded bodies were found hanging from a bridge.

The Isla Mujeres cases involve a youth who prosecutors identify only by his nickname, "El Gallito" or "The Little Rooster".

Quintana Roo state prosecutors quote the boy as saying that he and two older associates killed the two women at a hotel on Isla Mujeres.

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