Mexico CITY - Mexican troops arrested a 14-year old U.S. citizens suspected of a man of results for a drug cartel and beheading his victims, shocking the latest development in the Mexican war against drug trafficking gangs.
Edgar Jimenez late Thursday at an airport in Cuernavaca, a tourist destination about one hour south of Mexico City covered attempted when he, a flight to Tijuana on board, said the Mexican army in a statement.
The teenagers – short and light with black curly hair - was allegedly trying, previously took his way back to San Diego to make where he lived and where his father is believed to live, officials said.
A journalist speaks Reuters Edgar Jimenez after the 14-year-old suspect was arrested drug gang Hitman.In addition to their victims showed the young was a youth gang, who was notorious last month after pictures posted online members posing with assault rifles. Other members of the band appeared in her early teens.
Mr. Jiménez said the army a friend of a leading company in the Beltran Leyva cartel was captured, along with two of his teenage sisters, of which the army suspected of being. Beltran Leyva drug gang, named after the brothers who founded is originally from Sinaloa State in the Western Mexico but has much its operations in the central region of the country.
In a postarrest presentation of officials to the media, Mr. Jiménez admitted he he beheaded to several people who had killed at least four of them. He said he acted under the influence of drugs and was put under pressure the killings perform the top hit man of the cartel in the State of Morelos, called Julio Raquilla "El Negro" or "The Black One."
Said authorities have no information about Mr. Jiménez's background with the exception of what the boy said documentation of San Diego was.
The boy said that when he was 12 years, he was picked up by Mr Raquilla and drugs. Mr. Jiménez then was under pressure to carry out killings, he said. Prayers, if he regretted his actions, the young said "Yes, I am sorry I with all of this have been involved."
Criminal activities by minors is on the rise in much of Mexico where children show wealthy drug barons as a model in cities without much economic opportunity. A survey in Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of Mexico wanted to drug-related violence, showed children at the age of nine years a drug gang join.
"The children [in narcotics cartels] get younger and younger,", says Bruce Bagley, a Latin America expert at the University of Miami. "Mexico has fallen in a spiral a whole generation is scar". "Life is cheap and getting cheaper."
Mexican ventilated your frustration online your own lack of progress.
"Look what we have created: lack of a proper education, lack of opportunities, lack of a healthy social environment." A perfect cocktail for young people narcotics join gangs, "A person identified to online comments from Mexico wrote like Benito Camelo page leading newspaper Reforma."
Drug-related violence in Mexico has more than 30,000 people called since President Felipe Calderon took power and declared war drug gangs. The barbarism of killing has increased. On Friday, the heads of the three men appeared in a plastic bag in the southern state of Guerrero. The skin had been by their faces of flayed.
Than drop, do alter the killer at the age of law enforcement personnel with the catching responsible. A city in Chihuahua a 20-year-old college-student, a woman named as police chief because nobody else wanted the job.
-José de Córdoba contributed to this article.Write toDavid Luhnow at the david.luhnow@wsj.com
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