They capture alleged "zeta" accused of 75 homicides

posted on: Jan 31 2012 8:20 by RDugey. Viewed 15 times.


State authorities announced yesterday the capture of an alleged member of the Los Zetas drug cartel in Northern State again Leon, accused of at least 75 murders including those of several passenger buses supposedly confused with members of rival groups.

The Prosecutor of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza, reported that the authority recently arrested Enrique Elizondo flowers, alias "El Arabe", who was allegedly responsible for Los Zetas detect and kill members of rival groups who try to enter some areas of the State.

State authorities said "the Arab" confessed their participation in the crimes and become a member of Los Zetas.

35-Year-old man, told authorities that he had worked in the area at least three years and together with other alleged assassins began in January 2011 to kidnap passengers of buses arriving at the station in the municipality of Cerralvo, referred u000athe spokesman for security of Nuevo León, Jorge Domene.

The group with which he worked killed at least 92 passengers of buses in three attacks in January and March 2011, of which 36 killings had been committed directly by "El Arabe".

Many of the victims were originating in the central State of Guanajuato, including the city of Celaya.

Passengers were on the bus arrived at Cerralvo, Nuevo León, from the border city of Reynosa. "the admits having participated in the murder of 35 people in this bus... also in the month of March there is another similar event where nine passengers are private life in another bus", said Domene.

Spokesman added that "The Arab" was characterized by "torturing, mutilating and then deprive of life their victims".

The alleged member of los Zetas was arrested on 20 January, although his arrest was announced so far. The authorities stated that no thing u000athey had made public because they had decided they should quickly verify some of the sayings of the man.

"The Arab" was supposedly responsible for preventing the arrival of groups of posters rival in Cerralvo and General Treviño, two municipalities of Nuevo León.

From the first half of 2011 began to hear cases of attacks on buses of passengers following the detection of various clandestine graves in Northern Tamaulipas State neighbouring Nuevo León.

Authorities recovered 193 bodies of clandestine graves in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, last year. Suspected members of Los Zetas detainees stated that the victims included passengers from buses that traveled through the area.

The reason for the abduction not has been clarified, although officials have suggested in recent months that it could have been a strategy of the group to recruit some people forcibly.

Northeast of Mexico, u000aincluding Nuevo León has been affected in recent years by attacks and murders that authorities have attributed to a violent dispute from rival cartels Los Zetas and Gulf, which broke by 2010 an Alliance remained for nearly a decade.

The violence attributed to organized crime has left more than 47,500 killings throughout the country since December 2006 and until September 2011.