Picking Off Family of Tuta One by One But Still No Tuta

Borderland Beat posted and translated by Spike 151 Republished from Proceso

Mexico City, (apro)-elements of the Attorney General of Justice (PGJ) of Michoacán  seized  another Member of the family  of Servando Gomez Martinez La Tuta.

It's Gerardo Martínez Lagorreta, uncle of the only living leader of the Knights Templar.

According to the PGJE, Martínez Legorreta, 53 years old, was captured in the municipality of Arteaga, as he left a property owned by La Tuta, secured by the authorities.

Martínez Legorreta was taken by force from the property, located in the colonia Centro de Arteaga for offenses against the system of public security and violation of seals of assurance of properties.

That property was secured on 27 November for being related to various illegal activities, concerned the PGJ in a statement.

At the time of his arrest, agents arrested him with a cell phone that according to the PGJ used to report movement of police corporations to members of the criminal organization and La Tuta, who is still at large.



The detainee was brought and placed at the disposal of the corresponding penal judge.

Since the arrival to the State of the Commissioner for the security and development Integral de Michoacán, Alfredo Castillo, there have been arrested  at least four relatives of the capo.

Húber Gómez Patiño, son of the leading Templar was arrested June 21 for illegal possession of firearm and drug possession.

His sister Sayonara Gómez Patiño, was arrested on October 29 in the State of Mexico and was filed with the Public Ministry of Michoacán, where  an order of location to declare on an investigation that the PGJ stated that it maintained in secrecy. Three hours later she was set free.

A week before, on 22 October, Ana Patiño López, ex-wife of Gómez Martínez and mother of Huber and Sayonara, was arrested on the motorway of the West, in Morelia, in an operation carried out by elements of the Ministerial police in Michoacan.

When she was captured  she had120 thousand pesos and 60 thousand dollars on her person , intended to use as bribes to prevent her arrest. Also confiscated were computer equipment and photographic, six teams of communication and five cases of controlled medication called "Ribotril".

Two days later, the 46-year-old woman, was put at the disposal of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) accused by his probable responsibility in crimes against health and operation with resources of illicit origin.