Police hunt down Mexican drug cartel accused

Utah Independent Saturday 4th February, 2012

Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.

Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused by police of running an assassination group.

He has been accused of leading a plot in which people were massacred at a drug rehabilitation centre in Ciudad Juarez on September 2, 2009.

Federal police have been looking for Marrufo, 33, since then.

A $150,000 reward had been offered for his capture by US authorities who have accused him of drug trafficking.

The capture of Marrufo could mean an end to some of the criminal structure of the Juarez cartels, which have been battling each other in turf wars and ordering assassinations.

Another top Sinaloa member, Luis Alberto Cabrera, was killed in an air strike on January 20th.

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