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CULIACAN, MEXICO (AP) -- A severed human head and a flower were found in front of the tomb of deceased Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva.

Prosecutors in Sinaloa state said Sunday the man's headless body was found in a plastic bag atop the tomb of another drug trafficker in the Jardines del Humaya cemetery in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state in western Mexico.

The severed head had a flower tucked behind one ear and had been carefully placed in front of the entrance gate to Beltran Leyva's elaborate, multistory crypt, said prosecutors' spokesman Martin Gastelum.

Police found it after receiving a telephone tip.

Beltran Leyva was killed in a Dec. 16 shootout with Mexican marines.

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