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Police in
Mexico say a suspected cartel leader they arrested on Friday has confessed to
ordering the murder of 1,500 people in northern Chihuahua state.
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| Mexican federal police paraded Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez in front of the media |
Jose
Antonio Acosta Hernandez, 33, is also suspected of masterminding the attack on
a US consulate worker and her husband in Ciudad Juarez last year.
Officials
say Mr Acosta Hernandez is a key figure in the Juarez cartel.
Juarez is
Mexico's most violent city, with more than 3,000 murders in 2010.
The
suspect, who is better known as El Diego, is accused of being the leader of the
La Linea gang, whose members work as hired killers for the Juarez cartel.
The cartel
controls some of the main drug smuggling routes from Ciudad Juarez into the
United States.
Police
believe El Diego was also behind a car bomb attack which killed four people in
the border city, the first such attack in Mexico's spiralling drug-related
violence.
Head of
Mexico's federal police anti-drug unit Ramon Pequeno said Mr Acosta Hernandez
had also admitted to ordering the killing of 15 people, most of them teenagers,
at a party in Ciudad Juarez last year.
The Mexican
government had offered 15m Mexican pesos ($1,275,000; £778,000) for information
leading to his arrest.
US
prosecutors said they wanted to try him in the case of the 2010 killing of US
consulate employee Lesley Enriquez, her American husband Arthur Redelfs, and
the husband of another consular worker, Jorge Alberto Salcedo.
They were
shot dead in their car after leaving a social event in the city.
Ms
Enriquez, 35, was four months pregnant when she died. The couple's
seven-month-old daughter survived the attack and was found crying in the back
seat.
Mr Salcedo
was killed in a near-simultaneous drive-by shooting as he drove away from the
same event.
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