Posted on 04/25/2009 7:11:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Police on Saturday said they arrested a Mexican drug cartel hitman wanted in connection with the abduction of a US anti-kidnap expert in December and the death of at least five people.
German Torres Jimenez, who allegedly works for the powerful Gulf drug cartel, was detained after a shootout in the eastern city of Veracruz, Mexico's Public Safety Secretariat (SSP) said in a statement.
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Torres is allegedly one of the founders of Los Zetas, the armed wing of the Gulf cartel. Los Zetas reportedly took control of the organization when cartel boss Osiel Cardenas was arrested, then extradited to the United States in 2005.
Torres is suspected of involvement in the December 2008 kidnapping of Felix Batista, a US security consultant and ex-US army officer who was abducted in the northern city of Saltillo where he was giving security seminars to local businessmen.
Batista, who worked for a the security consulting firm Asi Global, is still missing and it is unknown if his kidnappers have made any ransom demands.
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The Los Zetas group includes former members of elite Mexican military forces that the Gulf cartel hired in the 1990s.
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German Torres Jimenez, aka "Z-25", of the drug cartel "Los Zetas", is presented to the press at the Command Centre in Mexico City. Police on Saturday said they arrested a Mexican drug cartel hitman wanted in connection with the abduction of a US anti-kidnap expert in December and the death of at least five people. (AFP/Alfredo Estrella)
Keep plugging away and taking 'em down when ya can..
Last week ..
Mexican federal police present suspected members of the "Familia Michoacana" drug cartel at a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City April 19, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (MEXICO SOCIETY CONFLICT)
Good thing he was caught by the Mexicans. If the US had caught him the obama administration would want “to talk” to him.
so the Gulf cartel is really a group of community organizers, with an Acorn-like wing called Los Zetas?
Here is how it works in Mexico. The Prison Director conveniently puts you in a cell with a mad man, who he tells, ‘if you beat this dude up REAL good’, I’ll see if I can’t get you out of jail early. Next morning, the new man in the clink is READY to talk. The gov’t did nothing, no human rights were violated. Neat eh?
Unnnnnnnngh!
Not much of an expert was he?
LOL
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