Mexico City, Apr 3 (EFE).- Mexico's Federal Police on Friday arrested the suspected leader of a criminal gang linked to dozens of abductions and an extortion racket in the southwestern Tierra Caliente region.
The 24-year-old Nicolas Trujillo, a purported regional head of the Los Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) cartel, is suspected of overseeing kidnapping operations that resulted in more than 100 people being held in makeshift camps, that institution said in a statement.
The federal government intervened in Michoacan in January 2014 amid conflict between the Templarios and vigilante groups who had taken up arms to fight the gang, deploying thousands of soldiers and Federal Police to fill the security vacuum.
The arrest occurred in the context of a Federal Police special operation in Tierra Caliente, which gets its name from the high temperatures in the area and straddles Michoacan, Guerrero and Mexico states.
Seido, the organized-crime division of Mexico's Attorney General's Office, also participated in the operation.
In an investigation stemming from the rescue of some kidnap victims, it was determined that Trujillo was in the central state of Hidalgo.
He was arrested there without any shots fired.
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