Nuevo
Laredo – Mexican Marines captured and arrested the top member of
Los Zetas, a feared drug cartel that once served as an enforcement
arm of the Gulf Cartel.
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| Miguel Angel Trevino Morales |
Miguel
Angel Trevino Morales – also known as Z-40 – started his criminal
career running errands and washing cars on the streets of this border
city located at the south end of I-35. Soon, he was running drugs
across the border into the state.
As
the Zetas, named for a band of Mexican Special Forces deserters, clawed their way to the top of the drug world through sheer brutality
and brazenly violent tactics, his cachet increased.
Today,
the gang, which is named for the radio channel its commanders once used in
military operations, has a fearsome reputation for beheadings,
leaving bodies strewn on highways and hanging from overpasses, and
defying authorities and their fellow gangsters alike.
All
that came to a halt on Monday, when a drug task force of Mexican
Marines closed in on Morales, according to a top official of the U.S.
Government, quoted anonymously in a news blog of “The Dallas
Morning News.”
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