Posted by DD material from el Universal and Mexico News Daily
Members of the Federal Police and the Mexican Army, arrested in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, a person being investigated for the sale, distribution and handling of drugs, in Tamaulipas, the National Security (CNS) said in a statement.
The accused, identified as David Garza Avila or Elias Garza Garcia, alias El Diablo or M-19, is assumed by intelligence sources to be operational and financial coordinator at the service of the Gulf Cartel. Garza Ávila is believed to be a key collaborator of Gulf Cartel boss Juan Manuel Lozano Salinas, known as El Comandante Toro.
The arrest took place when the authorities discovered through intelligence resources that "El Diablo" traveled to Edomex to undergo plastic surgery on his face, in a hospital in Mexico City. The goal of surgery was to change his appearance to avoid identification and arrest, added the same sources.
The accused, identified as David Garza Avila or Elias Garza Garcia, alias El Diablo or M-19, is assumed by intelligence sources to be operational and financial coordinator at the service of the Gulf Cartel. Garza Ávila is believed to be a key collaborator of Gulf Cartel boss Juan Manuel Lozano Salinas, known as El Comandante Toro.
The arrest took place when the authorities discovered through intelligence resources that "El Diablo" traveled to Edomex to undergo plastic surgery on his face, in a hospital in Mexico City. The goal of surgery was to change his appearance to avoid identification and arrest, added the same sources.
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| Garza Ávila (el Diablo) missed his appointment for facial surgery. |
Garza Avila has been described as extremely violent , and was responsible for the transfer of drugs to the United States, and is believed to be responsible for ordering several executions in the municipalities of Reynosa, Mier y Rio Bravo, in Tamaulipas.
At the time of his arrest no shots were fired and he was with three other people who were secured along with a long gun, rounds of ammunition, a kilo apparently of the drug known as crystal, 10 kilos presumably marijuana, one vehicle and five sets of mobile telephones..
Garza Avila is innocent until proven otherwise and it will be the Deputy Public Prosecutor's Office, attached to the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) of the PGR, who will monitor the investigations and determine their legal situation.
It made public the assumed name of the accused because it is a case of public interest related to insecurity and that, if someone had been identified as his victim to submit his complaint.