Mexican drug lord 'El Teo' captured

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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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good news.

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.)


ap, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico_bio_box_el_teo

[Warpy]

1. I've been reading Mexican papers about this guy

and he's a really grotesque piece of work, using acid to try to dissolve something on the order of 300 corpses his gang has found inconveniently lying around.

I think everybody's glad he's off the street, even though another one will very likely take his place all too soon.

The only way out of this stuff is to end the drug war. We lost. The drugs won. All that's left is legalizing them, undercutting the black market, and putting the gangs out of business.

[Bigmack]

2. Kinda like Al Qaeda....

there's only about 8000 guys ready and willing to take his place. And they're gonna have to out-ugly the old Jefe just to make an impression.

[naaman fletcher]

3. So what. Only answer it to legalize it all.

There will be an endless supply of these guys, just like Al Qaeda #2's

[slackmaster]

4. The news I heard on NPR said something about dissolving hundreds of corpses in acid

Acid, caustic soda, whatever. It could be the basis for a great horror movie.

Watch for it next summer, coming to a theater near you. Wear heavy rubber gloves and eye protection.

K&R for a great topic, and for citing Al Jazeera.

:kick:

[Warpy]

5. I've been reading the Mexican papers on this guy

They're downright gleeful that he's off the street and they've been recapping the highlights of his career in maggot gagging detail.

[slackmaster]

6. NPR said his nickname was "the Soupmaker"

:rofl:

[AngryAmish]

7. el pozetero, I think

[Romulox]

8. LOL. This sounds a lot like Al Qaeda's never-ending supply of "Number 2"s!

Drug War = War on Terror = Phony.