Mexico captured alleged cartel capo near border

Juan Manuel Rodriguez Garcia

Federal security commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido identified the suspect as Juan Manuel Rodriguez Garcia, but did not specify the cartel for which he allegedly worked.

But an official for the U.S. government told The Associated Press that Rodriguez Garcia was the Gulf Cartel's commander along the Rio Grande and was competing for control of the gang's operations in all of Tamaulipas state. The official agreed to discuss the arrest only if not quoted by name because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.

Rubido said Rodriguez Garcia was arrested peacefully while with his wife and children near a hotel in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a town in the neighboring border state of Nuevo Leon. He said Rodriguez Garcia had gone there seeking to avoid being detected by security forces.

The detainee was responsible "for the movement of drugs, money and weapons" for his own gang and for other criminal organizations that paid to use Tamaulipas' border with U.S., Rubido said.

In addition, Rubido said, "There are indications that he ordered mass kidnappings of undocumented migrants, who were forced to work for his group or, if they refused, were killed."

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.