Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenioarticle with additional pictures from Noreste.
Subject Matter: Sergio Meza Flores, El Soruya
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge
Sergio Meza Flores is considered by authorities as the principal generator of violence en Tabasco and Veracruz, related to executions, extortion as well as fuel theft.
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Sergio Meza Flores, El Soruyo, identified as a leader of the criminal group Los Zetas, died during a confrontation with Police in Tabasco, informed the State Secretary of Public Security. The corporation considers El Soruyo as the principal generator of violence in Tabasco and Veracruz, related to executions, extortion as well as fuel theft and vehicle theft.
The Governor of Tabasco, Arturo Nunez Jiminez, said that in meeting with the Coordination Group for State Public Security, the operation was carried out together with Sedena, before the fight that may occur for the leadership of the criminal group.
Tabascos Public Security Secretary, Jorge Alberto Aguirre Carbajal said that Sergio Meza Flores had an arrest warrant for vehicle theft in Veracruz.
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According to Police reports, when the subjects vehicle was seen he was chased, and the occupants of El Soruyo's vehicle fired on the police patrol, the patrol vehicle lost control and crashed by the side of the road, the police jumped out of their vehicle and fired on the aggressors vehicle and stopped it escaping.
Army units of the 37th Infantry Battalion were closing in and also fired on the vehicle, killing El Soruyo, while the others in the vehicle escaped.
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Meza Flores had been arrested in 2015 for hydro-carbon theft, Pemex officials said that it was well known that he had a gas station, and several under-ground storage tanks in Cardenas. He was released later in 2015.
Authorities did not say how many people were arrested in the operation that killed El Soruyo only that a black Explorer van had been recovered along with two AR15 rifles.
Subject Matter: Sergio Meza Flores, El Soruya
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge
Sergio Meza Flores is considered by authorities as the principal generator of violence en Tabasco and Veracruz, related to executions, extortion as well as fuel theft.
Sergio Meza Flores, El Soruyo, identified as a leader of the criminal group Los Zetas, died during a confrontation with Police in Tabasco, informed the State Secretary of Public Security. The corporation considers El Soruyo as the principal generator of violence in Tabasco and Veracruz, related to executions, extortion as well as fuel theft and vehicle theft.
The Governor of Tabasco, Arturo Nunez Jiminez, said that in meeting with the Coordination Group for State Public Security, the operation was carried out together with Sedena, before the fight that may occur for the leadership of the criminal group.
Tabascos Public Security Secretary, Jorge Alberto Aguirre Carbajal said that Sergio Meza Flores had an arrest warrant for vehicle theft in Veracruz.
According to Police reports, when the subjects vehicle was seen he was chased, and the occupants of El Soruyo's vehicle fired on the police patrol, the patrol vehicle lost control and crashed by the side of the road, the police jumped out of their vehicle and fired on the aggressors vehicle and stopped it escaping.
Army units of the 37th Infantry Battalion were closing in and also fired on the vehicle, killing El Soruyo, while the others in the vehicle escaped.
Meza Flores had been arrested in 2015 for hydro-carbon theft, Pemex officials said that it was well known that he had a gas station, and several under-ground storage tanks in Cardenas. He was released later in 2015.
Authorities did not say how many people were arrested in the operation that killed El Soruyo only that a black Explorer van had been recovered along with two AR15 rifles.