CASPER
New member
MEXICO CITY – Federal police have arrested a military deserter believed to have joined the Zetas drug cartel and participated in the massacre of 72 migrants near the U.S. border.
A government anti-drug spokesman says Edgar Huerta was arrested in the northern state of Zacatecas with his girlfriend, Brenda Acevedo.
Spokesman Ramon Pequeno says Huerta is suspected of killing at least 10 Central American migrants in August 2010 and kidnapping six buses full of passengers.
Pequeno says Huerta told authorities that the passengers were taken to safe houses and tortured. Authorities believe the kidnappers were looking for members of the rival Gulf Cartel.
A government anti-drug spokesman says Edgar Huerta was arrested in the northern state of Zacatecas with his girlfriend, Brenda Acevedo.
Spokesman Ramon Pequeno says Huerta is suspected of killing at least 10 Central American migrants in August 2010 and kidnapping six buses full of passengers.
Pequeno says Huerta told authorities that the passengers were taken to safe houses and tortured. Authorities believe the kidnappers were looking for members of the rival Gulf Cartel.
