la familia structure The Kill captured
Toluca .- Officers of the Attorney General of the State of Mexico (PGJEM), in coordination with the Department of Public Safety (SSC), arrested Matthew Raymundo Cruz. alias “The Kill”, the alleged leader of La Familia Michoacana operating in five municipalities.
In a press conference, the state prosecutor Alfredo Castillo Cervantes, and the Director of the SSC, Salvador Neme Sastré, said that the arrest was made this past weekend in the municipality of Villa Nicolas Romero.
They said that during his arrest at Matthew Cross, it was not necessary to use firearms, at the time of his arrest was unarmed and living in one of his safe houses located in this town. Castillo Cervantes said that the offender was involved in at least 12 homicides in the municipalities of Villa Nicolas Romero, Jilotzingo, Cuautitlan Izcalli, Naucalpan and Atizapán of Zaragoza. “He would dismember the kidnapped victims and even leave them a message that made reference to the Familia Michoacana “he said.
He said that with the arrest of “The Kill” a blow is given to organized crime, and this capture and Jose Luis Soto Silva (Beto) has dismembered this band completely dedicated to the distribution of cocaine in the Valley of Mexico.
In his first statement of “The Kill”, said some elements of the municipal police of Villa Nicolas Romero were in charge of providing protection to the members of his band. Each of them was paid 2,500 pesos a week. “However, when there were strong shock or drug transfer, the payment was higher and the offender sometimes had to spend more than five thousand dollars for each officer that protected them.
Raymundo Castillo Cervantes said Matthew Cruz, also is being investigated by state authorities because he also was engaged in extorting bars operating in those municipalities, which are, called shares above 20 thousand dollars a week. “With this arrest and the” El Beto “, recorded last week there is a very important step in fighting crime, that soon also carried out operations to capture other capos, including “M1″, “The Pony”, “The Relative”, “The Cowboy”, “The Badger”, “El Comandante” and “The Sow”.
For his part, Secretary of Public Safety, Salvador Neme Sastré, stated that these actions are a frontal combat organized crime operating in this part of the Valley of Mexico. On the participation of municipal police of Villa Nicolas Romero, who offered him protection, Sastré Neme reported that these will be investigated so that no crime goes unpunished.
It should be noted that in 2011 the State of Mexico authorities broke up several cells that commanded “The Kill”, who was linked to a shooting that occurred on July 31 at the Zodiac Bar, located in Nicolás Romero
