Thread: Mexican Marines Grab Alleged Drug Gang Lieutenant

Mexican Marines Grab Alleged Drug Gang Lieutenant

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 11, 2010
5:58 p.m. ET

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's navy says marines raided a house in the Pacific resort of Acapulco and captured a suspected regional chief of a drug gang involved in a bloody turf war in the center and south of Mexico.

A statement Sunday from the navy says troops detained Gamaliel Aguirre Tavira on Saturday, along with two women and another man. It says the marines found six rifles, five pistols, 41 magazines, 2,000 bullets, a grenade launcher and eight grenades.

Authorities say the 35-year-old Aguirre Tavira is a close ally of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a Texas-born gang boss known as ''La Barbie'' who leads one of the two factions fighting over control of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/07 ... ml?_r=1&hp

Authorities say the 35-year-old Aguirre Tavira is a close ally of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a Texas-born gang boss known as ''La Barbie'' who leads one of the two factions fighting over control of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel.

Another anchor baby no doubt!

Actually no the family of Edgar Valdez Villarreal is considered respectably middle class in Laredo, Texas and most of the members of the family are involved in honorable occupations. He took up marijuana peddling in high school to the chagrin of most of his relatives. He rose up through the network rather than concentrating on school. Laredo is an important border crossing and he helped to organize smuggling. He had no compunctions regarding killing to protect the group interest.

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_ ... Villarreal