(4 Sep 2012) The Mexican Navy said it detained a top leader of the Gulf drug cartel on Tuesday.
Navy spokesman Jose Luis Vergara said marines detained Mario Cardenas Guillen in the northern city of Altamira.
"The Mexican Navy informs us of the arrest of whom we presume to be Mario Cardenas Guillen, alias "M-1" or "el Gordo" (The Fat Man)" said Vergara.
Cardenas Guillen is the brother of Osiel Cardenas Guillen, who led the cartel until he was detained in 2003.
"Intelligence sources say that along with his brother Antonio Ezequiel Cardensa Guillen, alias "Tony Tormenta" (Storm Tony), they took control of the Gulf Cartel. After the death of this brother, he became one of the leaders of this criminal group," Vergara told journalists.
Osiel Cardenas was extradited in 2007 to the United States and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Marines killed another brother, Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, in 2010 in the city of Matamoros.
At the time, authorities said Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen and Jorge Eduardo Costilla were the cartel's top leaders.
Vergara says that after Antonio Ezequiel's death, the Gulf cartel divided into two groups, one led by his brother Mario and the other by Costilla.
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