Los Flacos Member, Bus Driver from San Fernando 72 Migrant Massacre Arrested

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National Guard agents arrested Alejandro "N", identified as a suspected member of the Gulf Cartel involved in the massacre of 72 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, more than a decade ago.

According to the investigations, this subject was the driver of one of the two buses that transported citizens from Central and South America before they were intercepted by Los Zetas hit men and executed for refusing to work for the drug traffickers. The 58 men and 14 women were mostly from Central and South America. They were all taken to a ranch where they were eventually killed for refusing to work for the criminal group.

Alejandro “N” is located as a supposed member of the armed wing Los Flacos, where he worked as an operator when the crime against the migrants occurred in 2010. Intelligence work made it possible to locate the driver of the Gulf Cartel and the National Guard complied with the arrest warrant issued against him in criminal case 67/2012 filed in the municipality of Matamoros, a stronghold of the transnational crime group.

The alleged criminal is accused of kidnapping, extortion and human trafficking, for which he was admitted to the Federal Center for Social Readaptation in the state of Durango. According to the official report, the capture was in pursuit of the crimes of homicide, disappearance of persons, kidnapping, extortion and human trafficking. This is how the operational planning was developed to stop the person involved without a single shot being fired.

“This arrest represents a resounding blow to organized crime”, boasted the National Guard and added that the court order was carried out in strict adherence to the rule of law and with absolute respect for human rights and in compliance with the National Law on the Use of of the strength.

This past August 22 marked the 12th anniversary of the San Fernando massacre. That time, 74 migrants were transported in two trucks headed for the Tamaulipas border. Only two of them survived and the rest were executed by Los Zetas.

Alejandro was driving one of those buses, but he fled with the other driver and another assistant. Since then they have disappeared, leaving behind one of the worst massacres in Mexico during the drug war. According to reports, the crime was committed between August 22 and 23, 2010 in the Huizachal ejido, municipality of San Fernando, after the migrants were kidnapped less than 150 km from the border with the United States.

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