More like the AMC series "Breaking Bad"
Posted on 12/14/2010 12:10:41 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Monterrey – The suspected leader of the Los Zetas drug cartel in Guadalupe, a city in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, was captured along with six associates by army troops, the Defense Secretariat said.
Rogelio Chacha Quintero, who used young women to recruit new members of his organization, was arrested on Monday, the secretariat said.
The 27-year-old suspect was captured in the Orizaba neighborhood of Guadalupe, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area, a military spokesman told Efe.
Troops from the 7th Military Zone seized 23 vehicles, including several luxury automobiles, four rifles, drugs, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, communications gear and military uniforms stored in a warehouse on Mexico street.
Chacha Quintero staged several kidnappings, ran extortion rackets and stole vehicles in Guadalupe.
The suspect employed women - three of whom were arrested in the operation - to entice young men into joining Los Zetas.
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, known as "El Lazca," deserted from the Mexican army in 1999 and formed Los Zetas with three other soldiers, all members of an elite special operations unit, becoming the armed wing of the Gulf drug cartel.
Nuevo Leon and neighboring Tamaulipas state have been rocked by a wave of violence unleashed by drug traffickers battling for control of smuggling routes into the United States.
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This is like NCIS live....
We need our Green Berets on our southern border not on Mexico’s sounthern border.
What happens to these guys after they get arrested? I hear that life in a Mexican prison is not bad if you have money. Some of these guys were let out of prison by the guards so that they could go out and commit more murders.
More like the AMC series "Breaking Bad"
Sounds like the Mexican Government, NAU supporters, wanted a different leader for the Zetas. The Mexican Government, and the NAU supporters here in the US, probably were not getting their cut from the Zetas drug sales
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