Gang leader arrested over US consulate killing
Published:Friday | July 2, 2010 | 6:14 PM
Mexican police say they have arrested a gang leader responsible for killing three people connected with the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez in March.
Police say Jesus Ernesto Chavez admitted targeting a US consular worker because she was thought to have given visas to a rival gang.
Her husband and another man linked to the consulate were also killed.
The murders raised fears that US interests had become a target in Mexico's drugs war.
Police say the suspect leads a gang known as the Aztecs, which is linked to the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking organisations.
He’s also accused of taking part in the murder of 13 teenagers at a party in Ciudad Juarez in January.