Commandante Cano of Old School Zetas in Ciudad Victoria arrested in a house belonging to the sister of the ex secretary of Public State Security

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article with additional pictures from Valor por Tamaulipas

Updated 3/2/17 with more information from Proceso

Subject Matter: Ciudad Victoria, Old School Zetas
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Reporter: Proceso Redaction
In a rescue operation that freed two people, authorities detained Jose Luis Cano Lumberas, alias El Cano, Pepe Cano, or Commandante Cano, considered as leader of one of the groups that has committed multiple crimes in common law and Federal jurisdiction in Ciudad Victoria.

According to Police files, the group led by Cano Lumbreras has carried out crimes like kidnapping, extortion, robbery and homicides, among others in the Tamaulipeca Capital.

According to information supplied by the government of Tamaulipas, two kidnapped persons were freed and together with Cano Lumbreras they detained Saul N, Jesus Mario N and Erik N, as well as two other subjects.

The operation was carried out during the night of Wednesday the 31st in the Villa Jardin Colonia of Ciudad Victoria without a confrontation or victims. "The elements of the PGJE carried out investigations derived from denunciations of kidnapping", signalled the communication.

In June of last year, El Cano had been detained in an automobile with a large quantity of money on the Monterrey to Ciudad Victoria highway, but after was freed.

In parallel investigations by the PGJE are ongoing into common law crimes, while the PGR are investigating Federal crimes  in relation to activities  by the group of Cano Lumbreras, signalled the information.

Various weapons were also confiscated during the raid.

Unofficial sources signalled that El Cano is identified as Plaza Boss for one faction of Los Zetas. ( Otis: VpT article title says he is from Vieja Escuela Zetas, or old school Zetas.

Original article in Spanish at Proceso

Updated information below from 3rd Feb 2017

The Government of Tamaulipas gave out information today that the safe house were they detained the alleged Kidnapper Jose Luis Cano Lumbreras "El Cano", "Pepe Cano" or "Commandante Cano", on the night of the 31st of January is the property of the sister of the Town Secretary of Ciudad Victoria and ex-director of State Security C4, Armando Nunez Montelongo.

In a communication, they detailed that according to information from the Office of Government of Ciudad Victoria, the house located on Calle Ignacio Ramirez, number 632, of the Valle de Aguayo fraccionamiento, belongs to Marcia Nunez Montelongo, sister of the ex treasurer of the town of Reynosa during the PRI administration of Ernesto Cantu Resendez.

Armando Nunez Montelongo was secretary for the Public State Security System during the administration of Egidio Torre Cantu and had been signalled as one of PRI governors linked to criminality, among them was his friend Eugenio Hernandez Flores, sought by the anti-drugs agency the DEA and criminal groups that operate in the state.

Original article in Spanish at Proceso