Alfredo Beltrán Leyva: Difference between revisions

Alfredo Beltrán Leyva was arrested in Culiacán with three members of his security detail on January 21, 2008, he had with him two suitcases filled with $900,000 in cash and luxury watches.<ref>{{cite news|title=Top cocaine smuggler nabbed, Mexico says|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/21/mexico.drugarrest/index.html|accessdate=11 November 2012|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=21 January 2009|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6C5LUo7dK|archivedate=11 November 2012|deadurl=no|location=Mexico City}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Iliff|first=Laurence|title=Mexican soldiers capture top player in drug cartel|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/DN-mexico_22int.ART.State.Edition1.37719d7.html|accessdate=11 November 2012|newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]]|date=22 January 2008|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090531064203/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/DN-mexico_22int.ART.State.Edition1.37719d7.html|archivedate=11 November 2012}}</ref> Police also found 20 fragmentation grenades, automatic weapons, rifles, 40 bulletproof vests, eight of which bore the initials FEDA, which was likely a Spanish acronym for "[[Arturo Beltrán Leyva|Arturo's]] Special Forces." Authorities also found an unspecified amount of cash in one of his homes. At the time of his arrest, Alfredo was the top lieutenant of [[Joaquín Guzmán Loera|Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán Loera]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Mexico raids net alleged drug cartel figures|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22785423/#.UJ8Y7mnwKFc|accessdate=113 NovemberMarch 20122014|newspaper=[[Associated Press]]|publisher=[[MSNBC]]|date=22 January 2008|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6C5LoJZb9|archivedate=11 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mexico arrests top drugs suspect|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7201571.stm|accessdate=11 November 2012|newspaper=[[BBC News]]|date=21 January 2008|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6C5LxKXiA|archivedate=11 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref> [[Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez]], top commander of [[Mexico|Mexico's]] national federal police and Spokesman for the Arrest would be assassinated five months later.<ref>{{cite news|last=Tobar|first=Hector|title=Ranking security official slain in Mexico|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/09/world/fg-mexico9|accessdate=11 November 2012|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=9 May 2008|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6C5M343UE|archivedate=11 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=McKinley|first=James C.|title=Gunmen Kill Chief of Mexico’s Police|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/world/americas/09mexico.html|accessdate=11 November 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=9 May 2008|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6C5MAoTUk|archivedate=11 November 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref>