Sunday, September 12, 2010

Villareal Barragán Leader Of The Beltrán Leyva Cartel Arrested By Mexican Marines In Puebla

Sergio Villareal Barragán captured by Mexican Marines. Photo: Sedena

By H. Nelson Goodson
September 12, 2010

Puebla, Coahuila, Mexico - The Mexican Department of National Defense (Sedena) announced that marines had captured Sergio Villareal Barragán, aka, "El Grande" on Sunday in Puebla. Barragán an alleged leader in the Beltrán Leyva Cartel was coming out around 10:00 a.m. of his residence in the neighborhood of San Pedro in the subdivision of Puerta de Hierro when he was taken into custody without incident.
Also arrested along with Barragán were Jesús Enrique Jurado Torres and Ramiro Cisneros Aguirre, according to Alejandro Poiré, Secretary of Federal Public Security. Poiré said, that at least 30 Marines, including a military helicopter was involved in Barragán's arrest. No ijuries were reported.
Several vehicles and weapons and ammunition was confiscated. Barragán was a former federal agent assigned to Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa, Tamaulipas. He later became a Judicial Police Officer in the State of Coahuila, before becomming a most wanted man in Mexico and the U.S.
Mexico was offering 30 million pesos ($2,307,692 U.S. dollars) for information leading to his arrest.

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