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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2007 
National Crackdown Prompts Arrest Of Mexican Drug Cartel Leaders
 Christopher Rizo - All Headline News
In the wake of a national crackdown against organized crime, authorities in Mexico had arrested five people suspected of smuggling drugs, guns and people into the United States.
Deputy Attorney General Noe Ramirez told reporters that the group, part of the infamous Gulf Cartel, was apprehended in a Reynosa nightclub, across the Mexican-U.S. border from McAllen, TX.
The Associated Press says those arrested were: Juan Oscar Garza, allegedly the cell's leader; his brother, Josue Garza; his sister, Cantalicia Garza, allegedly in charge of the cell's financial operations; his girlfriend, Mayra Pedraza Sanchez; and Jaime Nunez Mendoza.
Patricio Patino, deputy secretary of police intelligence and strategy for the Public Safety Department, said Juan Oscar Garza blackmailed local business owners, ran guns and smuggled people.
The Mexican attorney general's office believes that Garza was responsible primarily for money laundering and for organizing narcotic distribution routes that head into the United States through Reynosa.
Authorities also believe since Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas was extradited to the United States in January that Garza has taken over leadership of the group.
To help quell the violence in an apparent war between the Gulf cartel and the Sinaloa cartel, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of federal agents through the country to help end a conflict which last year killed more than 2,000 people.
On Monday alone, authorities said nearly two dozen bodies were found across Mexico, some charred, others stuffed in plastic bags, the Associated Press reported. |
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