U.S. officials confirm arrest of Juárez cartel leader connected to U.S. Consulate deaths

huffingtonpost ^ | 07/31/11 12:28 PM ET and Marty Schladen | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and Marty Schladen

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MEXICO CITY -- A key drug cartel figure who acknowledged ordering 1,500 killings has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said Sunday.

Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez also is a suspect in last year's slaying of a U.S. consulate employee near a border crossing in Ciudad Juarez.

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In March, the FBI announced that Acosta had been indicted in connection with the slayings in Juárez of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate there. The FBI alleged the slayings were carried out by members of the Barrio Azteca gang on orders from the Juárez drug cartel. On March 13, 2010, consulate employee Lesley Enriquez Redelfs and her husband, Arthur Redelfs, an El Paso County sheriff's detention officer, were fatally shot in a street attack The El Pasoans (Americans) were killed along with Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, whose wife worked at the consulate. The Redelfs and Salcido were slain in separate shootings after leaving the party within minutes of each other.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_18581826

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Link to Huf

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/31/jose-antonio-acosta-hernandez-drug-cartel-figure-captured_n_914357.html

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Did the Mexican cartel use ObamaGuns in the murder?

Omoslem shipped thousands of ObamaGuns into Mexico (and Honduras) via Operation Fast + Furious, funded by Omoslem’s “stimulus” (aka Porkulus) bill.

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