Teodoro García Simental

Teodoro García Simental
Born 1974
Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Residence La Paz, Baja California Sur
Other names El Teo,[1] El Tres Letras,[2] El Lalo,[3] El Alamo;[3] El K-1[4]
Occupation Drug lord
Employer Tijuana Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel
Known for Drug trafficking, kidnapping, extortion
Successor Manuel Garcia Simental
Notes
$2 million USD bounty.[5] Arrested on January 12, 2010.[6]
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is García and the second or maternal family name is Simental.

Teodoro García Simental (a.k.a.: El Teo and El Tres Letras) is a former lieutenant of the Mexican criminal organization known as the Tijuana Cartel, and later allied with the Sinaloa Cartel.[7] He was arrested by Mexican Federal Police - Special Forces on 12 January 2010 in La Paz, Baja California Sur.[6][8]

Biography

He started working for Tijuana Cartel in 1995, along with his brother, Antonio Garcia Simental[9][10][11] (alias "8-9" or ""El Chris"),[12][13][14] who was a cartel enforcer,[15] under the orders of Ramón Arellano Félix. When the Tijuana Cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Félix was arrested on October 25, 2008, a violent power struggle erupted between Teodoro García and Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano over the leadership of the Tijuana cartel.[16][17] Teodoro García left the organization, formed his own gang, and forged an uneasy alliance with the rival Sinaloa Cartel.[18][19][20][21] When splitting from the Tijuana Cartel, his faction engaged in a war with it, which caused violent crime in Tijuana to increase significantly.[22] According to Tijuana's Chief of Police, García was principally responsible in the late 2000s for the increase in the number of homicides in the city.[22]

Teodoro García is best known for running an extortion and kidnapping network,[22][23] and is also known for dissolving the bodies of those who are in business with rival drug gangs by drowning them in caustic soda.[23][24] Upon being arrested, García's lieutenant, Santiago Meza López—known as the Stew Maker, claimed to have dissolved over three hundred bodies this way in 2008.[24][25] The Mexican Army stated that it believed Meza's claims to be true.[25]

Arrest

The Mexican Federal Police was offering a $2 million USD bounty for information leading to the capture of Teodoro García Simental.[5] García Simental was also wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Teodoro García Simental was arrested on January 12, 2010 by Mexican Federal Police in a luxury home complex named Fidepaz, located in La Paz, Baja California Sur.[6][8] He was arrested together with an individual by the name of Diego Raymundo Guerrero García.

One month after his arrest, on February 7, 2010 Manuel Garcia Simental, Teodoro’s younger brother and lieutenant, was arrested in the Baja California port city of La Paz.[26] Authorities feared Manuel was planning to reignite a gang war for control of Tijuana’s drug trafficking routes.[26]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cops nab infamous Mexican drug lord Teodoro (El Teo) Garcia Simental; dissolved 300 people in acid. Helen Kennedy. New York Daily News. New York, New York. 12 January 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  2. ↑ Officials: Mexican drug kingpin captured: Alleged Drug Lord Bio. USA Today, 12 January 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  3. 1 2 El fiscal de la SIEDO obtuvo nuevo auto de formal prision contra Teodoro Garcia Simental, alias "El Teo". Procuraduria General de la Republica. Mexico City, Mexico. 6 March 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  4. ↑ Detiene Policía Federal a El Teo en BCS: Captura Policía Federal a quien fuera sicario del cártel de los Arellano Félix, en un operativo en el que participaron más de 50 elementos policiacos. El Universal. Mexico City, Mexico. 12 January 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  5. 1 2 Ellingwood, Ken (March 24, 2009). "Mexico offers $2-million rewards for top drug suspects". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  6. 1 2 3 "Detiene Policía Federal a El Teo en BCS". El Universal (in Spanish). January 12, 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
  7. ↑ MEXICANO, Said BETANZOS / EL. "Cae decapitador y sicario de 'El Teo'".
  8. 1 2 Mexican drug lord Teodoro Garcia Simental, known for his savagery, is captured (January 12, 2010)
  9. ↑ (AGENCIAS). ""El Teo" mandó matar a su novia".
  10. ↑ Zeta. "CAF, una historia de relevos".
  11. ↑ "'Nos dijeron que el Chapo estaba muerto'".
  12. ↑ http://www.eldiariodecoahuila.com.mx/includes/modulos/imprimir.asp?id=110941&tipo=noticia
  13. ↑ http://poresto.net/v2/27609.htm
  14. ↑ http://hemeroteca.proceso.com.mx/?page_id=278958&a51dc26366d99bb5fa29cea4747565fec=83281&rl=wh
  15. ↑ http://www.eldiariodecoahuila.com.mx/notas/2009/11/29/nacional-120222.asp
  16. ↑ Brown, Dwane; Amy Isackson; Alan Ray (January 9, 2009). "DEA Releases Wanted Poster". KPBS. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  17. ↑ "Violence Along the Southwest Border” - - DEA
  18. ↑ Sosa Cabrios, Andrea; Sandoval, Francisco (March 10, 2009). "Raid on Mexico birthday party nets drug boss, police". Monsters and Critics. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  19. ↑ Los ‘Zetas’ por dentro; los entrenan en Coahuila Agosto 17 de 2008. Vanguardia
  20. ↑ "Narcos establecen nuevo mapa de dominio (mayo de 2008)".
  21. ↑ ‘Los Zetas’ se salen de control (enero 2008)
  22. 1 2 3 "Mexico's drug barons and police locked in an increasingly violent battle for supremacy". The Telegraph. March 18, 2009. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  23. 1 2 Marosi, Richard (December 18, 2008). "Mexico's drug war: Mystery man blamed for gruesome deaths in Tijuana, Mexico". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  24. 1 2 "Brutal stew: Mexican gang member dissolves 300 bodies". Australian Associated Press. January 24, 2009. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
  25. 1 2 "Mexico man 'dissolved 300 bodies'". BBC News. January 24, 2009. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
  26. 1 2 "Reputed drug cartel leader "Muletas" and another suspected gangster are arrested in Baja California". Los Angeles Times. February 8, 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-09. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
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