By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Amid the seemingly endless stream of depressing news out of Mexico involving violence and drugs comes a little bit of good news.
The Associated Press reports that Mexican Marines in the central state of Puebla on Sunday captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva drug cartel. Known as “El Grande”, he was on the country’s most-wanted fugitives list.
AP reports that he was captured with two accomplices. The raid involved 30 Navy marines, five vehicles and a helicopter.
“This is a new and resounding blow by the federal government against crime, given the high rank and dangerousness of this person inside one of the country’s most extensive criminal organizations which has been deeply weakened,” government security spokesman Alejandro Poire said in a statement, according to AP.
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