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The drug lord is registered as one of the 10 most wanted fugitives on the FBI’s list and the U.S. government was offering one million dollars to anyone who provided information leading to his arrest.
The subject is identified as the leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel in the municipality of San Pedro, is registered as one of the 10 most wanted fugitives on the FBI’s list and the U.S. government offered one million dollars to anyone who provided information leading to his capture.
José Rodolfo Villarreal Hernández, “El Gato”.
Interpol, the Navy, the National Anti-Kidnapping Coordination, and elements of the Nuevo Leon State Investigation Agency participated in this arrest.
Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez, who is wanted for allegedly ordering his associates to track down and murder a man in Southlake, Texas, has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The State Department’s Transnational Organized Crime Reward Program is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading directly to his arrest.
Villarreal-Hernandez holds an active leadership position in the Beltran Leyva Drug Trafficking Organization within the San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico region. He is also believed to be responsible for numerous murders in Mexico.
The 43-year-old Texas murder victim was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of his vehicle outside an upscale shopping center in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb on May 22, 2013. His wife was standing near the driver’s side door when her husband was killed. The brazen ambush occurred in the afternoon hours when the shopping center was packed with shoppers.
According to evidence and testimony gathered in the trials of those accused of tracking and killing the man, Villarreal-Hernandez ordered and financed a multi-year effort to find and surveil the victim and then kill him. Investigators believe Villarreal-Hernandez had a long-standing personal grudge against the victim.
Several of the people involved in tracking and killing the victim have already pleaded guilty, been tried and convicted, or are awaiting trial in federal court.
“The fact that Villarreal-Hernandez was willing to send people into the United States to track someone within the United States and then execute that person in a Texas neighborhood, we must set an example that this will not be tolerated,” said Special. Agent Gary Koenig.
Koenig has been investigating Villarreal-Hernandez with the FBI’s Dallas Field Office since the shooting occurred in 2013. El Gato’s apparent role in drug trafficking into the United States and evidence linking him to more than 10 murders in Mexico have made the case a top priority. for U.S. and Mexican authorities. “He’s a ruthless guy,” Koenig said.
The FBI and Mexican authorities feel that the publicity of the Ten Most Wanted list and such a large reward will help generate the leads they need to bring El Gato to justice.
The FBI considered Jose Rodolfo Villarreal Hernandez, “El Gato” to be extremely dangerous.
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San Pedro, Nuevo León
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