Mexican federal police on Feb. 14 announced the arrest in Culiacán, Sinaloa [2], of Jaime Herrera Herrera AKA "El Viejito" (Little Old Man), said to be a major manufacturer and distributor of methamphetamine for the Sinaloa Cartel [3]. (NYT [4], Feb. 14) The bust came ten days after the arrest in León, Guanajuato [5], of José Antonio Torres Marrufo AKA "El Marrufo"—said to be leader of the Gente Nueva [6] gang, armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel. Prosecutors suspect Marrufo of ordering the 2009 attack on a drug treatment clinic [7] in Ciudad Juárez [8] in which 18 people were killed. The cartel's maximum boss, Joaquín Guzmán AKA "El Chapo" (Shorty), still remains at large. (BBC News [9], Crónica de Hoy [10], RTT [11], Feb. 14; El Diario [12], Ciudad Juárez, Feb. 6; BBC News [13], Feb. 4)
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