Official Says Security Forces Catch Senior Knights Templar Drug Gang Boss Lizbeth Diaz - Reuters
go to original January 27, 2014

Dionisio Loya Plancarte - aka "El Tio"

MEXICO CITY - Mexico said on Monday it had caught a leader of the Knights Templar, a violent drug cartel that has created a major security problem for President Enrique Pena Nieto in western Mexico.

An official from the Attorney General's office said security forces had captured Dionisio Loya Plancarte, known as "El Tio" (The Uncle), one of the most senior members of the Knights Templar.

Plancarte's detention marks the first major capture of the inner circle of the gang, which emerged from a split in another cartel in the western state of Michoacan known as La Familia.

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