Drug-trafficking suspect in custody

2:00 a.m. June 11, 2009

TIJUANA — Mexican authorities have captured a leading drug-trafficking suspect linked to a violent criminal group that last year waged a bloody war for control of the region's trafficking routes and domestic markets, a U.S. law enforcement official confirmed late yesterday.

The suspect was identified as Jose Filiberto Parra Ramos. His arrest is considered a major blow to trafficker Eduardo Teodoro Garcia Simental.
Parra has been described as a top aide to Garcia. Law enforcement officials say Garcia is a one-time lieutenant in the Arellano Felix drug cartel who broke from the group last year.
Garcia and Parra are on a list of 10 drug-smuggling suspects linked to the

Arellano Felix cartel whose photographs were included on a DEA wanted poster released in January. They are considered members of a new generation of traffickers who have inherited the business built by an earlier group, most of whom are behind bars or dead.

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