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Clouds occur at alleged mastermind of attack on casino that left 52 dead in Mexico
posted on: Jan 7 2012 8:41 by RDugey. Viewed 16 times.
Mexican authorities presented yesterday to the alleged mastermind of the attack on a casino in Monterrey (North) that last August caused 52 deaths, and also accused him of the murder of two police chiefs and other offences.
Baltazar Saucedo Estrada, alias "El Commander Crocuses", of 48 years, was presented to journalists by the Attorney of the State again Leon, hours after being stopped by police officers in this city, capital of the State.
. The spokesperson for the Council of Nuevo León, Jorge Domene, recounted that Saucedo was captured by police members at 1340 local time on Thursday (1940 GMT) when he drove in his vehicle by the neighborhood of St. Louis.
The arrested was head to plaza de Monterrey of the cartel's Los Zetas, one of the most violent of Mexico.
With him were arrested two people, identified as Aurelio Lares Cisneros, 38 years, alias "El Guero", and u000aRicardo Ramírez Hernández, alias "the Chaparro" or "El Flaco".
To those arrested seized them weapons and drugs, along with a vehicle.
SAUCEDO Estrada agreed during interrogation to having ordered the burning of Casino Royale, on 25 August, because the owners refused to pay an extortion.
The fire was caused by several people at the cartel's Los Zetas which sprayed several points in the casino with gasoline that had earlier loaded in a nearby service station.
The victims were employees and players who were at that time on the premises.
The attack represented a blow to Mexico because it was the attack that registered the highest number of civilian casualties in a related crime fact organized.
In interrogations, Saucedo admitted also participating, in February 2011, in the assassination of the director of Central Intelligence of the Ministry of public security u000aState, Homer Salcido Treviño.
The 27 of June of that year also ordered the killing of the director of the police of the municipality of Santa Catarina, Germán Pérez Quiroz, who was killed in his own Office by gunmen who broke into the municipal secretariat of security.
According to authorities, Saucedo also confessed to having ordered the kidnapping and murder of several policemen and agents of traffic in the area municipal corporations Metropolitan.
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