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Mexico City’s Secretary of Citizen Security identified the man who was murdered Thursday afternoon in a cafeteria inside Plaza Carso.
He is Julio César Soto Meza, 42 years old, who was a member of the Arellanos Félix Cartel, with operations in the Los Pinos neighborhood in Tijuana.
This was confirmed by the head of the Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch. According to the victim’s inquiries, he has had a criminal record since 2013, he was arrested for crimes against health and in 2015 he was investigated as allegedly responsible for homicide and crimes against health.
In 2020 he was arrested in Venezuela for trafficking illicit substances, and in 2022 he was linked to the murder of Víctor Hugo Mejía López aka El Griego, a member of the Sinaloa Cartel.
He also has an arrest warrant in Oklahoma for trafficking illegal substances.
The shooting occurred at a Starbucks coffee shop inside Plaza Carso, when a subject fired shots directly at him.
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