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Top Drug-Trafficking Suspect Arrested
Arrest is considered a major blow to trafficker Eduardo Teodoro Garcia Simental



By Sandra Dibble
San Diego Union-Tribune Staff Writer
10:23 p.m. June 10, 2009

TIJUANA – Mexican authorities have captured a key drug trafficking suspect linked to a violent criminal group that last year waged a bloody war for control of the region's trafficking routes and domestic markets, a U.S. law enforcement official confirmed late Wednesday.

The suspect was identified as Jose Filiberto Parra Ramos. His arrest is considered a major blow to trafficker Eduardo Teodoro Garcia Simental.

Parra has been described as a top aide to Garcia. Law enforcement officials say Garcia is a onetime lieutenant in the Arellano Felix drug cartel who broke from the group last year.

Garcia and Parra are on a list of 10 suspected drug traffickers linked to the Arellano Felix cartel whose photographs were posted on a DEA wanted poster released in January. They are considered members of a new generation of traffickers who have inherited the business built by an earlier group, most of whom are behind bars or dead.