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Mexico Captures Top Sinaloa Cartel Operative
 Agence France-Presse
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May 22, 2010
| | Assault rifle ammo seized from alleged members of the Sinaloa drug cartel are presented to the press at the Police Command Centre in Mexico City in 2009. (AFP/Ronaldo Schemidt) | |
Mexico City – A senior member of the Sinaloa cartel, one of Mexico's largest criminal gangs, has been arrested along with a cache of weapons, money and drugs, officials said Friday.
Jose Manuel Garcia had been coordinating Sinaloa's activities in the region surrounding the capital, before his capture on Wednesday, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement.
He was also an associate of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a fugitive leader of the Sinaloa cartel who has been listed in Forbes magazine as the world's 701st richest person, with a reputed one-billion-dollar fortune made from cocaine trafficking.
The Sinaloa cartel is one of the major drug gangs involved in bloody feuds over Mexico's lucrative trafficking routes into the United States.
More than 22,700 people have died in surging drug-related attacks following the launch of a military clampdown on organized crime, involving some 50,000 troops, at the end of 2006.
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