Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenioarticle
Subject Matter: El Beto, CAF, AFO
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
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Elements of the Baja California Police detained a person identified as El Beto, alleged leader of a cell of the Cartel Arellano Felix. In a communication, the Secretary of State Public Security announced the effective detention deriving from intelligence work of the referred to Police corporation.
He indicated that the detention was carried out at a traffic circle at Simon Bolivar Avenue and Calle Tecate, in the Alba Roja Colonia, where officials located a Toyota Camry vehicle carrying the detained.
He referred that in the cabin they found a 9mm pistol, a spare magazine and 24 rounds of ammunition, another pistol of .22 calibre, they also found a bag that contained four packets with a weight of 18 kilos of marijuana.
The person arrested responded to the name of Carlos Alberto N, 34 years of age, who carried in the vehicle a sub-machine gun of 5.7 mm calibre two two spare magazines with ten rounds in each. (Otis: probably a FN P90.)
They also found three other plastic packages which contained a white granular substance with the characteristics similar to the synthetic drug know was Ice, weighing 3.9 kilos.
He noted that according to investigations, El Beto and several accomplices were dedicated to collecting quotas for the sale of drugs and executions of rival gang members operating in the local colonias, although this can only be determined by the corresponding authority.
Original article in Spanish at Milenio
Subject Matter: El Beto, CAF, AFO
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Elements of the Baja California Police detained a person identified as El Beto, alleged leader of a cell of the Cartel Arellano Felix. In a communication, the Secretary of State Public Security announced the effective detention deriving from intelligence work of the referred to Police corporation.
He indicated that the detention was carried out at a traffic circle at Simon Bolivar Avenue and Calle Tecate, in the Alba Roja Colonia, where officials located a Toyota Camry vehicle carrying the detained.
He referred that in the cabin they found a 9mm pistol, a spare magazine and 24 rounds of ammunition, another pistol of .22 calibre, they also found a bag that contained four packets with a weight of 18 kilos of marijuana.
The person arrested responded to the name of Carlos Alberto N, 34 years of age, who carried in the vehicle a sub-machine gun of 5.7 mm calibre two two spare magazines with ten rounds in each. (Otis: probably a FN P90.)
They also found three other plastic packages which contained a white granular substance with the characteristics similar to the synthetic drug know was Ice, weighing 3.9 kilos.
He noted that according to investigations, El Beto and several accomplices were dedicated to collecting quotas for the sale of drugs and executions of rival gang members operating in the local colonias, although this can only be determined by the corresponding authority.
Original article in Spanish at Milenio