The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has confirmed that a
man killed in a shootout with Juárez police last month was a
reputed high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel.  Jesus
Rodrigo "Huichi" Fierro Ramirez was among 24 reputed Sinaloa
cartel members indicted last year by a grand jury in U.S.
District Court in El Paso.  Fierro, who was on the list of
fugitives wanted by the DEA in El Paso, was killed in shootout
with Juárez police Jan. 24. He had been sought on racketeering,
drug and weapons conspiracy and criminal enterprise charges.
The Juárez Police Department said in a news release that police
were responding to calls about shots fired when someone fired at
police from the second floor of a two-story home in the 1000
block on Calle Estancia Santa Fe in Las Estancias neighborhood.
During a 30-minute gunbattle, two police officers were wounded,
several police vehicles were hit by bullets, and a fire broke
out in the home.  Police eventually rushed the middle-class home
and fatally shot a man ar