Alleged Mexican drug kingpin Javier Arellano-Felix captured in offshore operation

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Doberman

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Got him...and his brother is dead...Let the turf battle begin! Maybe a drought on the supply of bammer and cocoa!



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Reputed Mexican drug lord Javier Arellano-Felix has been captured by U.S. authorities in an offshore operation in the Pacific, according to federal law enforcement sources familiar with the case.

The officials say he is in the custody of the U.S. Coast Guard, and will be brought ashore at San Diego. Officials declined to provide details of the special operation that led to the infamous fugitive's arrest.

Arellano-Felix and his brother, Eduardo, who headed the cartel that bears their name, top the DEA's Most Wanted List, carrying rewards of $5 million dollars for their capture.

The felony indictments against the cartel leaders include conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine and marijuana on a massive scale. --From CNN Justice Producer Terry Frieden (Posted 12:35 p.m.)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/16/wednesday/index.html
 
Doberman

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Watching the briefing now on CNN Pipeline. Said he got snitched out. Got caught on a boat off the coast of Mexico. Says he's on his way to San Diego.
 
Doberman

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SLICC RICC said:
I HOPE NO ONE THINKS THE FLOW OF COCAINE WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS... ALL THAT WILL RESULT OF HIS CAPTURE IS GONNA BE A BLOODY CARTEL WAR...
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Yeah you right...there will still be an endless supply of bammer.
 
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Feds arrest Mexican drug kingpin at sea
Drug lord nabbed while fishing accused of leading tunnel-digging cartel
The Associated Press


Updated: 11:28 a.m. PT Aug 16, 2006
WASHINGTON - Federal drug agents arrested Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano-Felix, a leader of a major violent gang responsible for digging elaborate tunnels to smuggle drugs under the U.S. border, a Justice Department official said Wednesday.

The federal law enforcement official added that Arellano-Felix, 37, was captured by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, aided by the U.S. Coast Guard, on Monday while he was deep sea fishing off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

He is wanted in both the United States and Mexico for his role as a leader in the violent and sophisticated Tijuana-based Arellano-Felix gang, which includes seven brothers and four sisters from the Arellano family.

The law enforcement official said two suspected assassins for the gang were among the eight adults and three juveniles on the sport fishing boat, the Dock Holiday.

The Justice official and the federal law enforcement official requested anonymity because the arrest had not yet been officially announced.

The Arellano-Felix gang is one of the three large Mexican drug cartels, along with the Gulf Cartel and the Federacion. The Arellano-Felix gang is believed to be responsible for the massive, sophisticated drug tunnels discovered last January.

The tunnels ended in a warehouse in Otey Mesa, Calif., just south of San Diego. The DEA says the gang is also responsible for multiple murders and the smuggling of tons of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines over the last decade.

14 months in preparation
Federal agents began preparing for the operation 14 months ago after learning that Arellano-Felix was planning to go fishing aboard the vessel off La Paz, Mexico, the law enforcement official said. They enlisted the help of the Coast Guard in mounting the operation.

The Justice Department called an afternoon news conference with Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen, and Drug Enforcement Administration Chief of Operations Michael Braun to announce what it called “the arrest of a high-profile narcotics target.”

Arellano-Felix was named in a federal indictment that was unsealed in California in July, 2003. The indictment charged him with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy. The State Department has offered $5 million rewards for the capture of him or his brother Eduardo.

Javier Arellano-Felix was charged in Mexico in 1993 with conspiring to assassinate Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Posadas Ocampo, U.S. officials said.

The suspected Arellano-Felix assassins captured with Javier were identified as Arturo Villareal-Heredia and Marco “El Catoro” Fernandez, the law enforcement official said.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14377985/
 
moonpizzle

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im glad they got em, whoever he is, the less drugs on the street, the better.
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You fuck bombsock no less of anything is going to be from result of this. Nothing can end the war on drugs. There will never ever be any ground gained. The only thing that will ever effect the global drug situation is demand either up or down, period.
 
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moonpizzle said:
You fuck bombsock no less of anything is going to be from result of this. Nothing can end the war on drugs. There will never ever be any ground gained. The only thing that will ever effect the global drug situation is demand either up or down, period.
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The "war on drugs" is a myth...the government flies all that cocaine into the US...the US profits anywhere from 500 billion to 1 trillion dollars a year from imported cocaine from south and central America...
 
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BOMBSAC said:
im glad they got em, whoever he is, the less drugs on the street, the better.
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Pretty ironic statement coming from somone who calls themselves BOMBSAC

Everyone is right you know, it isn't gonna stop shit aside from start a war on the streets and maybe a drought in coke which will just lead to more violent crimes.
 
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