MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican police have arrested an alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel’s armed wing linked to a deadly car bomb last year, local media said on Saturday.
El Universal daily, quoting government sources, said Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez — also known as “El Diego” and reputed to be one of the bosses of the La Linea hitmen — was captured in Ciudad Juarez on Friday.
The media reports said Acosta Hernandez was behind a cell phone-detonated car bomb that killed four people in Ciudad Juarez in July of 2010, the first attack of its kind in Mexico’s drug war, and ordered the killing of at least a dozen more.
Formed by renegade police officers in the northern state of Chihuahua, La Linea act as enforcers for the Juarez cartel, a group based in the border city of Ciudad Juarez which controls some of the main drug trafficking routes into
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