Mexican Marines Capture Top Drug Suspect
By REUTERS
Filed at 12:36 a.m. ET
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican marines captured a top lieutenant of a leading drug cartel on Sunday, officials said, as authorities intensified their campaign against drug kingpins.
Sergio Villarreal, dubbed "El Grande," was a leading member of the Beltran Leyva cartel and did not resist capture when dozens of marines using armored vehicles cornered him at a safe house in the central Mexican city of Puebla, a marine official told Reuters.
"The capture of Sergio Villarreal ... is another of the federal government's continuing strikes against a highly dangerous criminal organization which is today badly weakened," national security spokesman, Alejandro Poire, said during a news conference on Sunday night.
The Beltran Leyva cartel has suffered several recent setbacks since marines in December killed the leader of the gang, Arturo Beltran Leyva, and Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez was captured late last month.
(Original here.)
Filed at 12:36 a.m. ET
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican marines captured a top lieutenant of a leading drug cartel on Sunday, officials said, as authorities intensified their campaign against drug kingpins.
Sergio Villarreal, dubbed "El Grande," was a leading member of the Beltran Leyva cartel and did not resist capture when dozens of marines using armored vehicles cornered him at a safe house in the central Mexican city of Puebla, a marine official told Reuters.
"The capture of Sergio Villarreal ... is another of the federal government's continuing strikes against a highly dangerous criminal organization which is today badly weakened," national security spokesman, Alejandro Poire, said during a news conference on Sunday night.
The Beltran Leyva cartel has suffered several recent setbacks since marines in December killed the leader of the gang, Arturo Beltran Leyva, and Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez was captured late last month.
(Original here.)
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