Mexican drug lord 'El Teo' captured [View All]

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Source: al jazeera

Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords, has been captured on the northwestern Baja California peninsula, a federal police official has said.

"They detained Teodoro Garcia Simental, "El Teo". It was in La Paz, Baja California Sur. They also detained one of his brothers known as "El torito"," the official said on Tuesday.

Ramon Eduardo Pequeno, the Mexican federal police commissioner , said authorities had been tracking him for more than six months, with the help of US anti-drug officials.

Garcia was on a list of Mexico's most-wanted drug traffickers, with a reward of up to $2.3 million offered for his capture.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2010/01/2010112192216691418.html

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Biographical data on alleged Tijuana drug lord
NAME — Teodoro Garcia Simental

NICKAMES — El Teo, El Tres Letras

BIRTH YEAR — 1974

BACKGROUND — He was once considered a top hit man for Tijuana's dominant cartel, the family-run Arellano-Felix. After law enforcement arrested or killed most of the Tijuana cartel leaders in 2008, Garcia launched a new group affiliated with the Sinaloa Cartel. The splintered organizations have been involved in a violent turf battle in Tijuana.

REPUTATION — Police say Garcia is particularly brutal and that his forces executed, beheaded and mutilated hundreds of rivals in Tijuana, sometimes pinning notes to the corpses, other times dissolving the bodies in caustic soda.

TERRITORY — Police say he attempted to control eastern Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.

(This version CORRECTS that bodies dissolved in caustic soda sted acid.)


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