Alleged illicit drug trafficker Alfredo Beltran Leyva, one of Sinaloa's drug leaders, was arrested together with three collaborators on Monday by officials in Mexico City, Mexico's capital city.
This is one of the most important arrests of drug traffickers carried out in recent months in Mexico. In a joint communique, Mexico's Attorney General's Department (PGR in short in Spanish) and Mexico's Defense Ministry (Sedena in Spanish) reported that the four arrests were carried out in Culiacan, Sinaloa state's capital city.
Officials allegedly confiscated many weapons and two suitcases with 900,000 U.S. dollars.
Beltran Leyva alias "El Mochomo" is considered "one of the main drug bosses in the organization of (Joaquin) Guzman Loera," Sinaloa's cartel leader and better known as "El Chapo Guzman" fugitive from a Mexican prison since 2001, according to Mexican officials.
Beltran was arrested by personnel from Mexico's 9th Military Zone and PGR.
"He (Beltran) was in charge of heading drug transportation operations, money laundering, buying off public officials for said organization in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco and Nayarit," the communique added.
The three alleged collaborators arrested with Beltran were identified as Javier Hugo Urquiza, Flavio Manuel Castro and Jose Uistecingo Barraza.
Organized Crime violence has recently been increasing very much, leaving over 100 deceased victims in the first weeks of 2008.
Source: Xinhua
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