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VALLLY/ O 1A1 fc,Mexican agents arrest suspected ZetasBY ANGELES NEGRETE LARESTHE BROWNSVILLE HERALDThe Mexican attorney general’s office (PGR) on TUesday announced the arrest of seven suspected Zetas, a group led by former elite Mexican army soldiers serving as assassins for the Gulf Cartel.Julio Santoscoy, one the Drug Administration Agency’s most wanted fugitives, was among the seven arrested after several months of investigation.“(Santoscoy is) head of one of the cells of the Zetas in the northern state of CoahuilaSANTOSCOY GARZAAssistant Attorney General Jose Santiago Vasconcelos stated in a press release.Last year, the PGR office in Mexico City issued a wanted poster with mug shots of 31 Zetas.PENASOTELOCAVAZOSRODRIGUEZThey were former members of an elite paratroop and intelligence battalion who were posted to the border state of Tamaulipas in the 1990s to fight drug traffickers. Mexican federal officials estimate that the battalion consisted of 350 members, but that only 31 joined the drug turfwar.Santoscoy and the six other suspected Zetas were arrested March 19 at a dance club inMonterrey, Nuevo Leon, said Vasconcelos. They were not part of the group of former paratroopers, but they have OLIVARES had similar training.They were captured after an anonymous phone call to the local police department complained that the group was disturbing the peace in the dance club, the press release states.The other suspected Zetas include Domingo Barra Garza, Andres Garza Pena, Miguel Angel Rodriguez Ramos, Silvia Bruno Cavazos, Israel de la Cruz Sotelo and Juan Ricardo Fuentes Olivares.Six suspects were arraigned, but Sotelo was released because of lack of evidence.Officials also confiscated firearms, ammunition and four armored 2004 Lincoln Navigator trucks with Coahuila plates.anegrete@link.freedom, comfirm ins Haim Senators criticize Bush on immigration reform
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Wed, Mar 24, 2004
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