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Soldiers stand in formation as a pile of marijuana and other drugs are incinerated at the 22th Infantry Batallion in Escobedo, on the outskirts of Monterrey July 9, 2010. More than four tons of narcotics, including marijuana, heroin and cocaine, were incinerated as part of the Nuevo Leon-Tamaulipas joint operation, in which the federal government sent thousands of soldiers to curb drug violence in Mexico's northern border.

AP - Mexico's navy says marines raided a house in the Pacific resort of Acapulco and captured a suspected regional chief of a drug gang involved in a bloody turf war in the center and south of Mexico.

A statement Sunday from the navy says troops detained Gamaliel Aguirre Tavira on Saturday, along with two women and another man. It says the marines found six rifles, five pistols, 41 magazines, 2,000 bullets, a grenade launcher and eight grenades.

Authorities say the 35-year-old Aguirre Tavira is a close ally of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a Texas-born gang boss known as "La Barbie" who leads one of the two factions fighting over control of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel.


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