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MEXICO CITY – The flamboyant former mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana has won another legal round against federal prosecutors.

A court has rejected an appeal by prosecutors seeking to overturn the dismissal of weapons charges against gambling magnate Jorge Hank Rhon.

Hank Rhon has now largely beaten charges relating to a June 4 army raid on his Tijuana mansion in which soldiers seized 88 weapons and nearly 10,000 bullets.

The Federal Judiciary Council says a lower court correctly ruled the raid was conducted improperly without a warrant, saying the argument by soldiers that they were investigating a crime in progress didn't hold up.

The council says there isn't sufficient, legally obtained evidence to hold Hank Rhon.


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Further confirmation this was more political than anything else.