(CNN) -- A man who local police believe was responsible for a fatal car bombing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is in custody, a municipal police spokesman told CNN Sunday.
But federal police, while confirming that the man is in custody after a shootout with the Mexican military, said they had nothing linking him to the bombing.
The July 15 car bombing claimed the lives of two police officers and a paramedic. Six people were injured in the blast.
Carlos Vasquez Barragan, a suspected leader of La Linea -- the armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel -- was detained after a shootout with the Mexican military on Thursday near the city of Madera, police spokesman Jacinto Seguro told CNN.
"During that shootout, which included the use of heavy arms, grenades, dynamite and AK-47s, the military captured him," Seguro said.
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