Teodoro García Simental
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| Born | 1974 Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Other names | El Teo, El Tres Letras. |
| Occupation | Drug lord, kidnapping, extortion |
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Teodoro García Simental (a.k.a.: El Teo and El Tres Letras) is a former lieutenant of the Mexican criminal organization known as the Tijuana Cartel. He was arrested by Mexican Federal Police - Special Forces on 12 January 2010 in La Paz, Baja California Sur.[2][3]
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[edit] Biography
When the Tijuana Cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Félix was arrested on October 25, 2008, a violent power struggle erupted between Teodoro García and Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano over the leadership of the Tijuana cartel.[4][5] Teodoro García left the organization, formed his own gang, and forged an uneasy alliance with the rival Sinaloa Cartel.[6][7][8][9] Since splitting from the Tijuana Cartel, his faction has been engaged in a war with it, which has caused crime in Tijuana to increase significantly.[10] According to Tijuana's Chief of Police, García is principally responsible for the recent increase in the number of homicides in the city.[10]
Teodoro García is best known for running an extortion and kidnapping network,[10][11] and is also known for dissolving the bodies of those who are in business with rival drug gangs by drowning them in sodium hydroxide.[11][12] Upon being arrested, García's lieutenant —Santiago Meza López— claimed to have dissolved over three hundred bodies in this fashion in 2008.[12][13] The Mexican Army stated that it believed Meza's claims to be true.[13]
[edit] Arrest
The Mexican Federal Police was offering a $2 million USD bounty for information leading to the capture of Teodoro García Simental.[1] García Simental was also wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Teodoro García Simental was arrested on January 12, 2010 by Mexican Federal Police - Special Forces in La Paz, Baja California Sur, in a luxury home complex named Fidepaz.[2][14] He was arrested together with an individual by the name of Diego Raymundo Guerrero García.
One month after his arrest, on February 7, 2010 Manuel Garcia Simental, Teodoro’s younger brother and lieutenant, was arrested in the Baja California port city of La Paz.[15] Authorities feared Manuel was planning to reignite a gang war for control of Tijuana’s drug trafficking routes.[15]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Ellingwood, Ken (March 24, 2009). "Mexico offers $2-million rewards for top drug suspects". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-reward24-2009mar24,0,3809308.story. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
- ^ a b c "Detiene Policía Federal a El Teo en BCS" (in Spanish). El Universal. January 12, 2010. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/651198.html. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
- ^ Mexican drug lord Teodoro Garcia Simental, known for his savagery, is captured (January 12, 2010)
- ^ Brown, Dwane; Amy Isackson, Alan Ray (January 9, 2009). "DEA Releases Wanted Poster". KPBS. http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/jan/09/dea-releases-wanted-poster/. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
- ^ "Violence Along the Southwest Border” - - DEA
- ^ Sosa Cabrios, Andrea; Sandoval, Francisco (March 10, 2009). "Raid on Mexico birthday party nets drug boss, police". Monsters and Critics. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/americas/features/article_1463882.php/Raid_on_Mexico_birthday_party_nets_drug_boss_police__News_Feature__. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
- ^ Los ‘Zetas’ por dentro; los entrenan en Coahuila Agosto 17 de 2008. Vanguardia
- ^ Narcos establecen nuevo mapa de dominio (mayo de 2008)
- ^ ‘Los Zetas’ se salen de control (enero 2008)
- ^ a b c "Mexico's drug barons and police locked in an increasingly violent battle for supremacy". The Telegraph. March 18, 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/5010852/Mexicos-drug-barons-and-police-locked-in-an-increasingly-violent-battle-for-supremacy.html. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
- ^ a b Marosi, Richard (December 18, 2008). "Mexico's drug war: Mystery man blamed for gruesome deaths in Tijuana, Mexico". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-tijuanadruglord18-2008dec18,0,7211383.story. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
- ^ a b "Brutal stew: Mexican gang member dissolves 300 bodies". Australian Associated Press. January 24, 2009. http://livenews.com.au/Article/Index/172053?channel=home. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
- ^ a b "Mexico man 'dissolved 300 bodies'". BBC News. January 24, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7848611.stm. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
- ^ Mexican drug lord Teodoro Garcia Simental, known for his savagery, is captured (January 12, 2010)
- ^ a b "Reputed drug cartel leader "Muletas" and another suspected gangster are arrested in Baja California". Los Angeles Times. February 8, 2010. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/02/mexico-cartel-leaders-arrested-baja-california-la-paz-muletas-raydel-lopez-uriarte-manuel-simentel.html. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
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