WORLD BRIEFING / MEXICO
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Soldiers have arrested a suspected member of a powerful drug cartel who is listed among Mexico’s 37 most-wanted traffickers, officials said.
Raymundo Almanza Morales was captured in the northern city of Monterrey after soldiers received an anonymous tip. Almanza is named as a top lieutenant of the Gulf drug cartel on the list of most-wanted traffickers the government published in March.
His brother, Octavio Almanza, was arrested in February on suspicion of masterminding the killing of an army general in Cancun.
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