MEXICO: Drug Thugs Stitch Actual Face Of Dead Rival...On Soccer Ball.

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Approaching a new level of brutality, a drug gang in Sinaloa skinned a rival's face and stitched it onto a soccer ball after kidnapping him in Sonora. The rest of the body of 36-year-old Hugo Hernandez was left in seven pieces in the streets of Las Mochis.