Mexican police have captured the top boss of the notorious La Familia drug cartel in a raid, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, adding the violent gang's leadership had been destroyed. "The federal government has detained the top leader (of La Familia) Jose de Jesus Mendez," 50, said security spokesman Alejandro Poire.
Mendez, who hailed from Tepalcatepec in Michoacan state, by the late 1990s already was working for organized drug rings shipping cocaine and marijuana to the United States, a report by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Nicknamed the Monkey, the stocky Mendez had been in a major internal conflict over a group that split from La Familia -- dubbed the Knights Templar, who are led by Servando Gomez alias "La Tuta."
La Familia announced its arrival on the scene in October 2006, when its men walked into a bar and rolled five severed heads onto a dance floor.
No comments:
Post a Comment