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La Kena: Notorious Mexican cartel leader captured
Source: BBC
La Kena: Notorious Mexican cartel leader captured
19 January 2024
By George Wright
BBC News
The leader of a faction of the notorious Gulf Cartel in Mexico has been arrested, local media reports.
José Alberto García Vilano, also known as La Kena or Ciclon 19, allegedly leads the violent Los Ciclones cell.
His group is accused of kidnapping four US citizens in March last year, killing two of them.
Vilano was reportedly captured in a shopping plaza in the city of Monterrey, after information about his whereabouts was leaked to officials.
Unverified footage on social media purports to show Vilano and his associates being marched through a mall by armed police.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68027129
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While looking for photos of this boss, I found an informative post on him in Borderland Beat, with a short video someone snagged as he was hustled out of a shopping mall, with an account of it. Make the video full-screen, you can see they were in a real rush to get him out of there!
LIVE THREAD: Gulf Cartel Leader 'La Kena' Captured Near Monterrey, Nuevo León
By Morogris 1/18/2024 04:11:00 PM 81 comments
"Morogris" for Borderland Beat
https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/01/live-thread-gulf-cartel-leader-la-kena.html
Apparently this guy was really a familiar villain in Mexico, as the article says there were songs written about him.
Thank you for catching this news. I hope they can keep him in jail better than they did with El Chapo!n
