The Baja California state Attorney General confirmed the arrest of David López Jiménez in Nuevo Leon
Mexican federal authorities on Wednesday arrested David López Jiménez, who goes by the nickname “Cabo 20.” He is accused of ordering theJiménez was taken into custody in the early morning in the eastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. Baja California state Attorney General Ricardo Iván Carpio announced the arrest at a news conference.
The prosecutor said Jiménez’s motive for ordering Martínez killed was that some photographs of Jiménez and his collaborators or family members “had been published in some news publications and social network and this caused annoyance.” Carpio said Martínez happened to live in the same neighborhood where much of the criminal activity of Jiménez’s network took place, which made him vulnerable.
Carpio said in addition to orchestrating the murder of a journalist, Jiménez was responsible for other street violence in Baja California. Jiménez works with the Arellano Félix cartel, the prosecutor said.
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