Note: The poor quality photos show mostly AR and AK platforms.
After the capture of suspects, the Mexican Navy seized an arsenal,
whose main parts were 132 rifles, 36 handguns, a caliber .50 Barrett
rifle, 5 grenade launchers, 28,000 rounds (bullets) and 29 grenades,
as well as tactical equipment .
Global collaboration in the capture of El Lucky, co-founder of the
'Zeta'
The Navy reveals that the intelligence operation to catch them lasted
more than a year and it involved agencies; mega-arsenal seized
132 guns in the arsenal seized after the capture of the Z-16
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nacional&cat=1&id_nota=794515
MEXICO CITY, December 13 .- Raul Lucio Hernandez Lechuga, alias el
Lucky, one of the founders of Los Zetas criminal organization, was
presented this morning by the Navy Department in the premises of the
Office of Special Investigations in Crime Organized (SIEDO), attached
to the PGR.
The Department of the Navy managed to capture this person, known as
the Z-16 or el apa, involved in 11 criminal investigations and
considered one of the main operators of Los Zetas to be responsible
for the transfer of drugs and cash generation for that criminal group
in central and southeast, particularly in Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco,
Campeche, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Mexico State, Queretaro and
San Luis Potosi.
Jose Luis Vergara, spokesman for the Department of the Navy, offered
details on the capture and profile of the inmate. He explained that
the naval intelligence operation to catch them lasted more than a
year and it involved national and international agencies.
Explained that Hernandea Lechuga was among 37 suspects wanted by the
PGR and the most wanted by the U.S., said the DEA offered a million
dollars for information leading to his capture.
Revealed that the detainee was in the direct line of command of
Heriberto Lazcano, El Lazca, founder and leader of Los Zetas, as his
immediate collaborator.
In the operation to capture, in which in addition to the Z-16 four
accomplices were arrested for it, there was crossfire. The spokesman
Jose Luis Vergara said the detainees tried to repel the attack, and
one died in the shooting of criminal suspects, plus an Marine of the
Navy was injured.
After the capture of suspects, the Mexican Navy seized an arsenal,
whose main parts were 132 rifles, 36 handguns, a caliber .50 Barrett
rifle 50 mm., 5 grenade launchers, 28,000 rounds (bullets) and 29
grenades, as well as tactical equipment.
According to the federal agency, el Lucky is one of the most
dangerous criminals, as was wanted since 2009 and one of 37 most
wanted criminals, so they offered 15 million pesos to anyone
providing information on their whereabouts.
The federal agency said that as a result of intensive intelligence
work, through a ground operation, held in Cordoba, Veracruz, they
captured the dangerous criminal who had changed his appearance
through plastic surgery.
The Navy Department has information that Hernandez Lechuga is a
compadre of Miguel Angel Trevino, El Z-40, who is the second in
command of the criminal organization Los Zetas, just below its top
leader, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, El Lazca .
Lechuga Hernandez, who was military in 1995 and left in 1997, is
considered one of the founders of Los Zetas, so he knows precisely
military tactics.
The Department of the Navy said that the Lucky is part of the 37 most
dangerous criminals wanted since 2009 and who, with his arrest, 22 of
them have fallen.
Hernandez Lechuga exercised until yesterday the regional criminal
leadership of the organization.
Agency information indicates that the dangerous criminal has at least
a dozen preliminary investigations against him about 200
disappearances of persons, including five naval personnel, who were
kidnapped in Veracruz.
Also associated with the disappearance of Francisco Serrano Aramoni,
director of the Office of Customs in Veracruz.
The Attorney General's Office (PGR), the agreement A / 123 / 09,
offering up to 15 million pesos to reward those who provide important
information to contribute to the arrest of dangerous subject.
With information from Aurora Vega
DGP
2011-12-13 08:15:00
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