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MEXICO CITY — A Mexican judge said Thursday that he granted bail for an alleged drug-cartel member just weeks before the man allegedly shot a U.S. immigration agent to death and wounded another.
The judge said he had originally granted the suspect a form of bail in another case because the most serious charges against him did not hold up.
Suspect Julian Zapata Espinoza was detained Wednesday by the Mexican army. The army said he confessed to killing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata on a highway near San Luis Potosi on Feb. 15, in what he claimed was a case of mistaken identity.
