El Paso man among 7 arrested in connection with Juárez car bomb, other attacks

By Adriana Gómez Licón / El Paso Times
Posted: 03/11/2011 02:43:03 PM MST

Mexican federal police have arrested an El Paso man, along with four other men and two women working for the Juárez drug cartel on suspicion of drug-dealing and ties to high-profile attacks such as the car bomb and the ambush that killed six police officers in 2010.
Federal police announced the arrests on Friday.

Police said José "El Chiquis" Maximino Campus, 23, of El Paso, was wanted for his possible involvement in two murders earlier this year, in a car bomb that exploded on July 15 and killed four people, and an ambush that killed six federal police agents on April 23.

Maximino and two other men - Jorge Antonio "Chapito" Hernández Méndez, 22, and Luis Ã