MEXICO CITY: Mexican prosecutors say they have detained one of the leaders of the Gulf Cartel, and in a related raid at a different house found a local politician with three guns.
The federal Attorney Generals Office said late Wednesday that the raids took place earlier this week in the town of Salinas Victoria, in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon.
Agents detained Evaristo Cruz, alias El Vaquero (The Cowboy), at one house with two other men, guns, cash and radios, prosecutors said. Cruz is reputedly a leader of the Cyclones faction of the splintered Gulf Cartel, based in the neighboring state of Tamaulipas.
Working on the same search warrant, agents detained local politician Ral Cant at another home, where three guns and possible marijuana were allegedly found. Cant is running for mayor of the town on the ticket of the small Citizens Movement Party.
The party said in a statement that the guns at Cants house were apparently hunting weapons owned by his father. But it also said that if he had committed any crime, the party would cooperate in the investigation.
Prosecutors alleged that Cant attempted to bribe the agents into releasing him.
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