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Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental was arrested today in the city of La Paz, Mexico. Garcia Simental is one of Mexico's most wanted drug traffickers and was wanted by both the United States and Mexico. Garcia Simental was a top lieutenant of the Tijuana cartel until he defected to the rival Sinaloa cartel after a power struggle. His capture is thanks to months of intelligence gathered by Mexican authorities and the DEA. Garcia Simental was in charge of doing some very dirty work for the cartels, he was charge of disposing bodies. He is accused of getting rid of 300 bodies by dipping them in acid. There was also a 2.4 million dollar reward for his capture.

I thought this was some pretty good news for the day, its always nice when notorious drug trafficker like this can be put away for good. Its quite remarkable how big of a business drug trafficking is in Mexico, these cartels basically own a lot of these towns in Mexico controlling with fear. This also just a good sign to the possible improvement of the lawlessness of Mexico. I think it is also interesting how this man in particular was in charge of disposing bodies of people the cartels murdered. That had to be quite the job for Garcia Simenta gathering up the bodies and putting them in acid. Hopefully the hunt continues for more of the top traffickers in Mexico.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/mexico.drug.lord.arrest/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29