Reputed drug cartel boss 'El Jaguar' wounded, arrested in Mexican army shootout
A reputed drug cartel leader suspected in the massacre of a U.S.-Mexican family was captured over the weekend after a shootout with Mexican army soldiers in a Chihuahua mountain village.
Francisco Javier Arvizu Márquez, alias "El Jaguar," was wounded in a gunbattle with soldiers Saturday morning in the community of La Norteña near the town of Madera, Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense and Chihuahua state authorities stated.
"El Jaguar" is reputedly the leader of the "Gente Nueva del Jaguar," a branch of the Sinaloa drug cartel, or what the army called the Cartel of the Pacific, a military news release stated.
The military stated that soldiers were acting on intelligence when they observed a suspicious vehicle and were fired upon. During the gunfight, "El Jaguar" was wounded and taken into custody, given first aid and transferred to a medical facility in Chihuahua City.
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