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Domene specified that "La Vaca" was commissioned to kidnap the vans carrying the official and his bodyguards, the day of the incident.
“We have 11 people missing in the city of Apodaca,” including police chief Milton Alvarado Rojas, Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz said in a press conference on Monday.
“We have a verbal report that was filed last Saturday. We are conducting an investigation,” the governor said, adding that he could not reveal any other information about the investigation.
Three officers who served as bodyguards for Alvarado Rojas were kidnapped last Thursday, officials in Apodaca, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area, told Efe.
One of the officers later called the chief and asked him to negotiate his release with an organized crime group at an address in the neighboring city of Juarez.
Alvarado Rojas went to the address on Saturday with seven other bodyguards to rescue the kidnapped officers and the group has been missing since then.
The latest kidnappings bring to 18 the number of police officers abducted this year in the Monterrey metro area by drug cartels.
Seven state police officers were kidnapped on March 12 in Guadalupe, another suburb of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon.
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| José Valdez Perales 'La Vaca', |
Elements of the State Investigation Agency succeeded in capturing a former employee of Roadside Assistance, who confessed to belonging to "Los Zetas" and being involved in the disappearance of the head of the Police Apodaca, recorded last year.
José Guadalupe Valdez Perales, alias "La Vaca" Valdez Perales, is leader of Los Zetas in the municipalities of Apodaca, Guadalupe and Juarez
La Vaca arrested on Oct. 22 and according to his own statement acknowledged his involvement in the kidnapping of the Apodaca police director, Milton Alvarado Rojas.
who was deprived of his freedom along with 10 of officers in April 2011.
Domene specified that "La Vaca" was commissioned to kidnap the vans carrying the official and his bodyguards, the day of the incident.The defendant had three years of working for the Zetas as "hawk" and later as a bodyguard." Valdez Perales revealed the place where they were allegedly buried the bodies of the police chief of Apodaca and his bodyguards, after they were killed.
He pointed to the location in the municipality of Juarez where skeletal remains were found two people. Domene specified that they already performed DNA tests corresponding to whether the remains are those of one of the missing.
Another crime with which he is associated is the murder of alderman of the PRD in the town of Benito Juarez, Tomas Betancourt Gaitán, who was killed on July 30
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| Milton Alvarado Rojas |
From the original story: The police chief of Apodaca, a city in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, and 10 of his bodyguards were kidnapped over the weekend by gunmen, officials said.
“We have 11 people missing in the city of Apodaca,” including police chief Milton Alvarado Rojas, Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz said in a press conference on Monday.
“We have a verbal report that was filed last Saturday. We are conducting an investigation,” the governor said, adding that he could not reveal any other information about the investigation.
Three officers who served as bodyguards for Alvarado Rojas were kidnapped last Thursday, officials in Apodaca, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area, told Efe.
One of the officers later called the chief and asked him to negotiate his release with an organized crime group at an address in the neighboring city of Juarez.
Alvarado Rojas went to the address on Saturday with seven other bodyguards to rescue the kidnapped officers and the group has been missing since then.
The latest kidnappings bring to 18 the number of police officers abducted this year in the Monterrey metro area by drug cartels.
Seven state police officers were kidnapped on March 12 in Guadalupe, another suburb of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon.
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| José Valdez Perales 'La Vaca', |
Furthermore, La Vaca, allegedly participated in the kidnapping and murder of the alderman of the PRD in the municipality of Benito Juarez, Tomas Betancourt Gaytan.
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| Tomas Betancourt Gaytan. PRD Coordinator |
Two days before the elections on July 1; Municipal Councilman of Benito Juarez, Tomas Betancourt Gaytan who was local coordinator of Lopez Obrador's presidential campaign in Benito Juarez was kidnapped. There was a demand for 100,000 pesos. He was found murdered with four bullets in his body on July 30th.
Sources: Excelsior, Vanguardia, Borderland Beat
Sources: Excelsior, Vanguardia, Borderland Beat
