Vigilante Leader Jose Manuel Mireles Injured in Mexico Plane Crash Agence France-Presse
go to original January 6, 2014

Vigilante Leader José Manuel Mireles Valverde (Cuartoscuro)

MORELIA - A small plane crash-landed in western Mexico, killing one person and injuring four others, including the leader of a vigilante group fighting drug cartels, officials said Sunday.

Jose Manuel Mireles, a high-profile leader of self-defense forces in Michoacan state, was transferred in a police Black Hawk helicopter to a hospital in Mexico City for security reasons, a federal official said.

Mireles, 55, had been hospitalized with a head injury and dislocated jaw in Morelia, the state capital, after late Saturday's emergency landing in the town of La Huacana, about 145 kilometers (90 miles) from its destination.

The aircraft was travelling from the city of Guadalajara in neighboring Jalisco state to the Michoacan town of Tepalcatepec, where Mireles works as a doctor.

... The Michoacan state prosecutor's office said Mireles was stable and conscious after the plane was forced to land due to a mechanical failure.

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