Mexican drug cartel boss caught at (his own) birthday party

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Reuters

Mexican police said on Friday they captured a suspected drug kingpin from the Gulf drug cartel during what authorities believe was his own birthday party in a city along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Gilberto Barragan Balderas, 41, was arrested in Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas, police said in a statement.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Barragan.

Barragan was in charge of defending some of the Gulf cartel's main smuggling routes into the United States from the rival Zetas cartel, police said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/21/us-mexico-drugs-idUSTRE74K0CE20110521

[Indianademocrat91]

1. He was already having a bad birthday

after he found out this was his gift

[palmtree guy]

2. this is good

it will help the zetas take over control of the Rio Grande Valley area border, with only one cartel the violence drops down to zip!!