Authorities in Mexico arrested a top leader of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. The arrest comes as that criminal organization has been linked to numerous disappearances and mass killings with considerable impunity.
Known in the underworld as “La Bola,” Alberto Monsivais Trevino was one of the acting top leaders of the CDN-Los Zetas until his arrest. Under his leadership, the criminal organization was linked to a large number of abductions and ransom kidnappings by cartel gunmen, as well as numerous attacks on military forces in the streets of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. As Breitbart Texas reported, the CDN-Los Zetas operate an armed wing known as Hells Troops that patrol the city in convoys of armored trucks.
Alleged cartel leader Alberto “La Bola” Monsivais
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