State Police Arrested Former Soldier Linked to Zetas

Elements of the Research Coordination detained Ismael Flores Curiel, an alleged member of Los Zetas , related to the execution of federal police in the Arco Norte highway and state elements Pachuca in 2009, besides other crimes covered up by commanders and elements Ministerial Police.

According to Hidalgo police, thedetainee known as El Sapo, he served as military Special Forces Airmobile Group (GAFE) in 1997, and former municipal police Apan, a position he held from 2000 to 2003 and Ministerial Hidalgo 2003 to 2006. However, corporations came up and joined the cartel Los Zetas in 2008, before she held a position in physical security of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).

Ismael Curiel, was arrested in an operation police on 12 January in the community in the municipality of Tetepatlaxco Almoloya, at approximately 23:30 pm that Thursday, state elements assured the Frog, along with 15 envelopes containing cocaine, a motorcycle and a rifle diabolos.

At the time of his arrest indicated that they had participated in the execution of uniformed state in October 2009 in the vicinity of the exhibition of Pachuca, also in December of that year killed several federal police Arco Norte highway and having participated in kidnapping, levantones, collection of dues, among other crimes, said the Ministry of Public Security in Hidalgo (SSPH).

Damian Canales Mena, head of the Hidalgo Police, explained that the Frog began his work as a bodyguard in organized crime in 2008 in the square of Tula, where he received a payment of six thousand pesos every two weeks, in addition to charge fees for dues.

In his statement, the arrest of 37-year-old said he received protection from various commanders and elements of the state police in the region, though the names were omitted so as not to interfere with the investigations, the police chief said.

Among his major crimes, in addition to the murders of police officers from various corporations, is the kidnapping of a member of a bar, for which he received a total of 35 000 pesos in 2008. In the same year, plagiarized a graduate who took a ransom of 800 000 pesos .

The safe house they occupied to keep their kidnap victims, said Canales Mena, was located in Tepeji River, which also killed two people for not paying his ransom, also participated in the boost and execution of more than three subjects were ” cooked “.

More rescues were charged by The Frog and other members of organized crime, the figures range from 100 thousand to 500 thousand pesos , the latter in 2009 when he kidnapped a Petroleum Engineer Mexican , who was responsible for fuel delivery sales area was stealing from the parastatal.

The most salient fact in which he participated Ismael Curiel was the murder of several federal police on December 28, 2009, when the elements were ambushed on the road Arco Norte. In this fact, state police arrested chicken and Kumbaya, who served as hitmen in El Sapo.

According to police reports, the arrest of the Toad adds to the apprehension of 59 state and municipal police linked to Los Zetas from January 2011.