Mexican police have arrested a suspected key member of the country's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico's attorney general's office said on Thursday.
Police captured the suspected kingpin, who goes under the name of Jose Luis Angulo and Pedro Mario Felix, along with 10 other drug smugglers in the northern city of Hermosillo in Sonora state.
He is considered "one of the most important players in drug trafficking in the northwest" of Mexico, the attorney general's office said in a statement.
The man had played a key role negotiating drug business between the cartel leader Ismael Zambada and drug gang leader Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man.
Drug cartels and gangs in Mexico traffic South American drugs into the neighboring United States, while rival gangs fight for a bigger stake in the business. About 2,000 people were killed in Mexico in drug-related violence last year, and 1,600 have been killed so far this year.
Source: Xinhua
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