Drug Dealers are falling from the sky

by hvizcarra | November 15, 2007 at 12:58 pm
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n the midst of one of the most famous off-road races, the Mexican Anti-Drug police got the best prize, out of sheer luck.
PGR officers (Procuraduría General de la República) found the dead body of Luis Merardo León Hinojosa, a.k.a "El Abulón", leader of the Arellano Félix drug cartel, in the aftermath of a helicopter crash in Baja 1000 off-road race near the port of Ensenada.
The body was later recaptured by an armed commando that killed two police officers and kidnapped a forensic doctor in the process.
Witnesses say that a helicopter guiding one of the racers in Baja 1000 got tangled in high-voltage cables and crashed-landed so violently that it could not even explode, bursting into pieces, scattered around on the dust and sand.
Two bodies were recovered and two more men were sent to the hospital in critical conditions.
One of the bodies was León Hinojosa, who after the capture and encarceration of Francisco Javier Arellano Félix was named the leader of the cartel that controls the North and Northwest of México's drug business.
The PGR officials had little control on the dead body that was recaptured the group of men linked to the cartel.
The group fled out of the scene towards Tijuana or Tecate, sources do not agree on this last fact.

Foreseeable fights
After the capture of Benjamín Arellano Félix, and later, Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, the Northwest of México was covered under a wave of executions in private and public places in a unstopped fight for leadership among the remaining carteleers.
The recent sentence of Francisco Javier and the death of León Hinojosa, may set another feudal battle in the midst of the cartel and with their competitors in the already crime-beaten Tijuana and other cities.

http://heriberto.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/15/1099919-drug-dealers-are-falling-from-the-sky

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