• In the latest development, following the Tucson, Arizona, capture of Gerardo Mérida, a retired Mexican army general who served as public-security secretary in northwestern Sinaloa state, today Sinaloa Senator Enrique Inzunza Cazárez, who is also facing drug trafficking and weapon charges, was taken into custody in San Diego by the DEA.
  • Both Merida and Cazarez were named in the lengthy indictment that included current Sinaloa Governor Rocha Moya, who, if ground reports are accurate, appears to be hiding while protected by the Mexican national guard.
  • Here’s where it gets really interesting.  According to the New York Post reporting, businessman Enrique Diaz Vega – another name from the indictment – also turned himself into U.S. authorities in Arizona last Friday.  That means four of the ten men named are currently in custody, with Governor Rocha Moya hiding out in Mexico.
  • It sounds like each of the men turning themselves in to U.S. authorities were facing a rather dangerous Hobson’s choice.

 

  • If they stayed in Mexico the Sinaloa cartel would consider them a threat, and it is likely that threat would be eliminated.  After all, cooperation would be detrimental to the interests of the cartel. Or Senator Cazares, General Merida and businessman Vega could flee from that threat, turn themselves in and hope to live.  It appears they chose the latter.
  • The New York Post – […] Sinaloa Senator Enrique Inzunza Cazárez, who is facing drug trafficking and weapon  

Source: theconservativetreehouse.com