2023-05-02 00:20:01
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in Mexico said Monday they have arrested a lieutenant of the violent Metros faction of the Gulf drug cartel implicated in 23 attacks against police and nine against the military.
The suspect was identified as Hugo Salinas Cortinas, alias “La Cabra.” Police and the Mexican army said he had been detained on Friday, but gave no explanation for the delay in making the announcement.
Police said Salinas Cortinas was captured with two firearms and 600 pills, apparently fentanyl. He allegedly ran drug and migrant smuggling along a stretch of the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, also known as the Rio Grande.
It allegedly operated in a territory that includes the towns of Camargo and Miguel Alemán, which border the Texan towns of Rio Grande City and Roma.
Local media reported that a woman identified in 2021 as his wife had been arrested in Roma, Texas, after police found more than $800,000 hidden in shoe boxes and backpacks at her home.
The Gulf cartel has splintered after the arrest and extradition of some of its top leaders over the decade.
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