Soldiers arrive at the apartment complex in Cuernavaca where drug boss Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed in a shootout. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
By Alicia Cruz
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The Drug Enforcement Administration named him to their top 11 most wanted narcotraficantes back in April 2009. The Mexican government placed a hefty $2.1 million dollar bounty on his head after naming him to their own Most Wanted list.
Today, their hunt for him is over.
Marcos Arturo Beltrán Leyva, aka El Barbas, one of Mexico's most notorious narcotraficante, was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Navy in the city of Cuernavaca in Morelos.
The Mexican Navy's assault on the apartment complex where Beltrán Leyva and three of his cohorts were hiding out comes on the heels of the Navy's raid of a party at a mansion in Tepotzlan where another three memebers of Beltrán-Leyva's Cartel were killed. The Navy's Friday raid netted 11 arrests. A fifth cartel member committed suicide during the shootout. The Navy reported that three sailors were injured by hand grenades the Cartel associates threw. There were no deaths other than those of the Cartel members.
The Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, which was led by Marcos Arturo and his brothers, Mario Alberto, Carlos, Alfredo and Héctor, had been responsible for a number of extortion, kidnapping and murders throughout Mexico including the beheadings of Mexican police all in an effort to control their hold of the exportation of cocaína, heroína and marijuana out of Mexico.
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The Beltrán-Leyva Cartel suffered a huge blow after the arrests of several members in 2008 and the capture of top lieutenant Rodolfo Lopez Ibarra, known as El Nito in May 2009 at an airport in Nuevo Leon state. Acting on a tip during the 2008 raid, Mexican officials said they confiscated a Cessna 550 airplane, two cars, 13 kilograms of Marijuana (29 pounds), computers, cellular phones, a cache of firearms, including a hand grenade and a load of cash: $40,680 pesos (U.S. $3,150), $29,385 (379,507 pesos).
"El jefe de jefes" (which means boss of bosses in Spanish), one of Beltrán-Leyva's nicknames, murder came after months of widespread violence and on the same day that the severed heads of six Mexican state police investigators were found in a public plaza in the capital of Durango. Police found notes attached to the mutilated bodies allegedly signed by El jefe de jefes himself. Beltrán-Leyva's death marks a huge victory in Mexico's drug wars.
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Today, their hunt for him is over.
Marcos Arturo Beltrán Leyva, aka El Barbas, one of Mexico's most notorious narcotraficante, was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Navy in the city of Cuernavaca in Morelos.
The Mexican Navy's assault on the apartment complex where Beltrán Leyva and three of his cohorts were hiding out comes on the heels of the Navy's raid of a party at a mansion in Tepotzlan where another three memebers of Beltrán-Leyva's Cartel were killed. The Navy's Friday raid netted 11 arrests. A fifth cartel member committed suicide during the shootout. The Navy reported that three sailors were injured by hand grenades the Cartel associates threw. There were no deaths other than those of the Cartel members.
The Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, which was led by Marcos Arturo and his brothers, Mario Alberto, Carlos, Alfredo and Héctor, had been responsible for a number of extortion, kidnapping and murders throughout Mexico including the beheadings of Mexican police all in an effort to control their hold of the exportation of cocaína, heroína and marijuana out of Mexico.
photo/narcoticnews.comThe Beltrán-Leyva Cartel suffered a huge blow after the arrests of several members in 2008 and the capture of top lieutenant Rodolfo Lopez Ibarra, known as El Nito in May 2009 at an airport in Nuevo Leon state. Acting on a tip during the 2008 raid, Mexican officials said they confiscated a Cessna 550 airplane, two cars, 13 kilograms of Marijuana (29 pounds), computers, cellular phones, a cache of firearms, including a hand grenade and a load of cash: $40,680 pesos (U.S. $3,150), $29,385 (379,507 pesos).
"El jefe de jefes" (which means boss of bosses in Spanish), one of Beltrán-Leyva's nicknames, murder came after months of widespread violence and on the same day that the severed heads of six Mexican state police investigators were found in a public plaza in the capital of Durango. Police found notes attached to the mutilated bodies allegedly signed by El jefe de jefes himself. Beltrán-Leyva's death marks a huge victory in Mexico's drug wars.
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