by Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat
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Rogelio Gonzalez Pizana "El Kelin" a native of Matamoros , Tamaulipas . who was arrested on October 28 , 2004 and after 10 years in prison , was supposedly released last Saturday august 30 , 2014 .
The first court of Guadalajara, ordered his release.
A lieutenant of Osiel Cardenas Guillen and later a founder of Los Zetas, the man known as Kelin, was sentenced to 16 years in prison, being found guilty of drug crimes, and is suspected of being one of the main traffickers of cocaine and marijuana into the US, operating from Colombia to the US.
Being one of the Zetas founders he is the only “civil” founder, the others belonged to Mexican Army Special Forces.
He was arrested in a strip joint “El Covacha” in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. He was taken into custody, after a gunfight with federal agents that left two suspects and one law-enforcement agent dead. Kelin attempted to escape in a VW Passat, throwing grenades as he fled; he was shot in his torso.
Mexican police and soldiers found a large arsenal of automatic weapons, as well as grenades, pistols, bulletproof vests and three cars with Texas license plates, in the aftermath of the 1AM raid on the bar.
Mexico’s attorney general said at the time, "El Kelín was considered the chief of the execution arm of Osiel Cárdenas, as well as being the leader of the group known as Los Zetas.”
If he was released, it would appear to be another “Mexican error”, as he has long been wanted in the US . Prior to his capture, the United States government offered a reward of one million dollars for Z-2, he is wanted on charges for possession and distribution of cocaine, in addition to detaining and threatening DEA agents, by gunpoint, in 1999.
In the infamous incident, which took place on Feb. 9, 1999, Kelin, was a participant in the detention of two United States Drug Enforcement Administration agents, and a journalist, when sicarios of Osiel Cárdenas' encircled their car in Matamoros and forced them to stop, all the while having assault rifles trained on them.
Cárdenas then stepped forward and demanded the agents hand over an “informant” they had in the car, saying, "This is my territory, I control it."
The agents felt they had one chance, to drive away and call his bluff, hoping that the premier boss of the Gulf cartel, would decide better of killing DEA agents, and all the unwanted focus that would follow.
The DEA agents drove away....and were not pursued.