Topic: Arturo Beltran Leyva

US officials met with alleged boy hitman in Mexico

0 . U.S. Embassy officials met with Mexico's alleged child assassin to check on his welfare and provide him with information on a lawyer in the ...

Troops arrest drug chief El Grande

A Mexican drug baron known as El Grande was captured without a fight by marines.. In December soldiers killed the cartel's leader Arturo Beltran Leyva, then in July Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, the organisation's number three, was shot dead. More than ...
Mexican authorities on Tuesday paraded a top drug lord in public, presenting his capture as a much-needed victory in the escalating battle against the country's vicious traffickers.As police in Mexico City presented US-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as "the Barbie ...
Six Mexican forensics experts have been suspended for allegedly altering a crime scene where bloodstained banknotes were spread over the body of drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, an official said.The cartel chief's half-naked, bullet-ridden body was covered with bloodstained banknotes ...
Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and AbroadExcerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Critics of the war in Iraq have long contended that the real reason why the U.S. invaded was so ...
DNA tests confirm death of drug lord Arturo Beltran LeyvaGenetic testing has confirmed that a man killed in a shootout last week with marines was drug cartel leader Arturo Beltran Leyva, the Mexican government said Sunday as a swanky but heavily guarded ...
Prosecutors sought to keep a Mexican musician and Latin Grammy winner in custody after he was detained at a party reportedly attended by drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, who was killed Wednesday.The attorney general's office said Thursday it had requested ...
Arturo Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug kingpin nicknamed the " boss of bosses," has been killed in a dramatic shoot-out between cartel members and the military south of Mexico City, the navy said.Beltran Leyva was Mexico's third most wanted man, with ...

Top Mexican drug lord killed in gunfight

Arturo Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug kingpin nicknamed the " boss of bosses," was killed in a dramatic shoot-out with the navy south of Mexico City, the government said Thursday.Beltran Leyva was Mexico's third most wanted man, with a 1.5-million-dollar ...

Top Mexico drug cartel leader killed by military

Arturo Beltran Leyva, one of Mexico's most wanted men and the head of a top drug cartel has been killed in a military operation south of Mexico City, the Navy said. "An intense battle between presumed members of Beltran Leyva's ...