By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
A top leader of the Los Zetas criminal organization in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas was detained following several shootouts in the border city Tuesday, according to the Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) website.
SEDENA is the controlling agency for the Mexican Army
Carlos Alejandro Guiterrez Escobedo AKA El Fabiruchis was detained by Mexican Army troops following Tuesday's three hour gun battle which killed six armed suspects.
You can read about the gunfight that led to the capture of Guiterrez Escobedo by clicking here
Guiterrez Escobedo has been with the Los Zetas organization since 2006 and has functioned as a security chief for the organization when the group split from their former Gulf cartel employers.
Guiterrez Escobedo has been Los Zetas' chief in the Tamaulipas municipalities of San Fernando, Abasolo, Jimenez and Mante.
Guiterrez Escobedo is the brother of Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo AKA La Ardilla, the alleged mastermind of one of the worst mass murders by the drug cartels, 193 people killed between August, 2010 and April, 2011 in San Fernando municipality.
Guiterrez Escobedo was the replacement for Geraldo Guerra Valdez AKA El Guerra, who was killed in a firefight with a Mexican Army patrol two weeks ago.
You can read about the gunfight that led to the death of Guerra Valdez by clicking here
The top leader of Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo, who is also Los Zetas' number two man, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales AKA Z40, remains at large. The detention of Trevino's security chief put Mexican security forces a step closer to dismantling the Los Zetas' prize territory, Nuevo Laredo.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Thursday, March 15, 2012
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Bullshit. This guy was never Plaza head of abasolo or Jimenez. That was the plaza of x-6 before they became ghost towns. Anybody remember the shootout in Abasolo about 18 months ago on an early Friday morning? School sessions were about to start and out of the brecha between Abasolo and sota la marina came 20 zetas and they were gunned down in about 10 minutes. That was x-6. Saludos!
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Nuevo laredo!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have nothing against BB or the The Mexican press but they always say " A TOP LEADER",;This people get replace asap, they aint nothing but loosers. Top leaders r like Chapo, and Trevino and Lazca or Carrillo,etc..
ReplyDeleteI agree, every scumbag is called a top leader..........
DeleteJUST KILL THAT PUNK AND SEND TO HELL
ReplyDeletematen a ese perro miertha
ReplyDeleteIf el Hummer got 35 years,being one of the TOP zetas leader. How much can this little top dog will get?? 5 10 years?How deaths are these people responsible for? no wonder Mexico is jacked!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGREAT JOB BB, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!
what the hell happened to forosdemexico?
ReplyDeletePromoted, captured and now working for the military!
ReplyDeleteZeta leaders are going to be killed or captured within weeks.
allow the military group or police that catches cartel leaders to collect the reward and the leaders would fall very rapidly.
ReplyDeleteMORDIDA has just gone up in price!
ReplyDeleteI think that they are some fags thay.run away alwayss
ReplyDeleteNext pendejo in line who wants to boss for a. Week. A ke pinches xetas cuando van aprender? No hay pedo pendejos en col de monterrey abundan.
ReplyDeleteI love it when they catch a dirty zeta member. Juarez cartel, matazetas, cjng and the caballeros templarios are going to control Mexico and every thing will go back to normal like it was before.
ReplyDeleteMarch 16, 2012 9:04 PM ..??????
ReplyDelete"I love it when they catch a dirty zeta member"
Ye right,all the other cartels don't kill people?
WHAT A CLOWN