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Mexican Navy Finds Beltran–Los Zetas–Tijuana Cartel Ties
 La Crónica de Hoy
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December 21, 2009
Evidence of Beltran Leyva cell links with the Zetas, the armed branch of the Gulf Cartel, and with the Arellano Felix organization [aka Tijuana Cartel], were found in the condominium where Arturo Beltrán Leyva, "El Barbas," died [on December 16] in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
According to sources from Mexico's Secretariat of the Navy, the Special Forces contingent that secured the scene found various documents — in agendas, written notes and software files — with names, phone numbers, addresses, passwords, aliases with the prefix Zeta, and photographs that could refer to listed cartel members.
Some of the strongest evidence was a record of routes for the transit of drugs that encompassed territories controlled by the Tijuana and Gulf groups.
Although the documents will be analyzed by Naval Intelligence, together with others from federal agencies such as the Deputy Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation into Organized Crime (SIEDO) and the National Center of Planning and Intelligence (CENAPI) of the PGR [Attorney General], according to information from the Navy the find suggests an alliance formed in order to win territories from the Sinaloa Cartel, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
The Beltran Leyva brothers split from the so-called Pacific Cartel [the Sinaloa Cartel] following the arrest of Alfredo Beltran Leyva, "El Mochomo," who was captured by soldiers in a safe house in Culiacan, Sinaloa, in January 2008.
Some data found in the apartment where "El Barbas" took shelter, in Cuernavaca, have started to be collated with statements of the 11 arrested during an operation on Friday, December 11, in a building where the Beltran's held a narco posada. This with the testimony of three people arrested in that action, and others [arrested] during the confrontation that resulted in Arturo's death, including two women and a man who refuses to answer questions.
The information could be used to design operations in search of lieutenants and members of the Zetas and the Tijuana group, and to detain other [drug] lords of the cell that up until Wednesday was led by Arturo Beltran.
La Crónica de Hoy, Mexico City, December 19, 2009; MexiData.info edited translation.
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