{"id":4946,"date":"2014-03-10T07:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2014-03-10T07:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:49:57","slug":"mexico-kills-drug-lord-thought-dead-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=4946","title":{"rendered":"Mexico kills drug lord thought dead for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Security is high around the morgue where the body is being held<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Officials in Mexico say that they have killed a drug lord who was reported to have been shot dead three years ago.<\/p>\n

Nazario Moreno, known as El Mas Loco – The Craziest One – was the founder of the La Familia cartel and regarded as the spiritual leader of its offshoot, the brutal Knights Templar.<\/p>\n

His death was first announced after a 2010 shootout, but no body was found and he was reportedly seen alive since.<\/p>\n

Police said he was finally tracked down and shot dead in Michoacan state.<\/p>\n

“From a fingerprint analysis we have confirmed 100% that this was Nazario Moreno Gonzalez,” said Tomas Zeron, the head of investigations at the federal prosecutor’s office.<\/p>\n

‘Dangerous person’<\/b><\/p>\n

Government security spokesman Alejandro Rubido said security officials had been tracking Moreno for some time.<\/p>\n

“Anonymous tips indicated that Nazario Moreno was not only living, but continued operating at the head of a criminal group conducting extortion, kidnapping and other crimes,” he said at a news briefing in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

“This person was known as dangerous,” he said, with police believing he had committed multiple murders since his reported death.<\/p>\n

Mr Rubido said Moreno was stopped by police on Sunday morning in the village of Tumbiscatio in Michoacan state.<\/p>\n

“When he was asked to turn himself in, he opened fire and was killed,” he said.<\/p>\n

Moreno, 43, was the founder of the La Familia cartel, which dominated the drugs trade in Michoacan but was believed to have been severely weakened by his reported death.<\/p>\n

Its breakaway group, the Knights Templar – know for its brutality and its use of religious imagery – subsequently took over many of the cartel’s operations and runs much of the methamphetamine production and trafficking in the west of Mexico.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Mexico correspondent Will Grant says Moreno’s killing is a second major success for the government’s campaign against the drugs trade within a month.<\/p>\n

In late February, Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo or “Shorty” was arrested in Sinaloa state.<\/p>\n

His Sinaloa cartel is believed to be one of the biggest criminal organisations in the world, trafficking drugs into more than 50 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n

He was one of Mexico’s most-wanted men and had been on the run since escaping a high-security prison in a laundry basket in 2001.<\/p>\n

Some 60,000 people have died across Mexico since 2006 when the previous government under Felipe Calderon deployed the military against the drugs gangs.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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