| Mexico captures two drug ring leaders |
| Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-07-12 10:21 |
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Mexican police captured five members of a drug trafficking ring, including two of its leaders, in the north, local authorities said Wednesday.
The two suspected ring leaders are 25-year-old Juan David Alejandro Mendez Arizpe and 18-year-old Sergio Gael Rosales Palacios. They confessed to kidnapping and murdering several members of rival criminal gangs in Durango and claimed to have worked for Mexico's most-wanted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
The arrests occurred in the city of Laredo in the northern Durango state after two federal policemen were attacked on the Matamoros-Mazatlan highway, leading police to launch a blanket search operation in the area.
During the operation, police seized three rifles, 11 ammunition clips of different calibers, 197 cartridges, a bullet-proof vest and four vehicles.
According to official figures, 47,579 people have been arrested in anti-narcotics operations from December 2006 to July 2012. |
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