Mexican army captures nation's biggest drug trafficker
08:02, 11 August 2009
MEXICO CITY. August 11. KAZINFORM Mexico's army had arrested the nation's biggest drug trafficker and charged him with murder, officials said on Monday, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The Defense Ministry told Mexican media the suspect, Juan Daniel Carranco Salazar, also known as El Colosio, was the head of drug smuggling gang the Gulf Cartel and their armed group Los Zetas.
He was arrested in in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo.
Carranco is charged with murdering the mayor of Rio Bravo, a small town in Mexico's northern state of Tamaulipas and attacking the offices of broadcaster Televisa and the U.S. consulate both in Monterrey, capital of Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.