Mexican troops kill drug cartel leader with $3M US bounty
Mexican soldiers killed an accused drug cartel leader with a three-million-dollar US bounty on his head, the government announced Tuesday. The suspect, Luis Enrique Barragan, 39, was a leader of a group called Cartel de Los Reyes, a faction of a larger organization called Carteles Unidos. The United States has classified this latter coalition of [...] The post Mexican troops kill drug cartel…
On Tuesday, Mexican soldiers eliminated Luis Enrique Barragan, a suspected drug cartel leader who had a $3 million US bounty on his head, according to the government. Barragan, 39, was the head of Cartel de Los Reyes, a faction of Carteles Unidos, a larger cartel coalition designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States.
The clash in Tocumbo, western Michoacan state, between Barragan and an associate and soldiers and National Guards resulted in both the cartel leader's demise, reported Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch. The Security Minister added that Barragan was a leader of an extortion ring targeting avocado farmers in Michoacan. A US State Department webpage on Barragan and the bounty for his capture states that he was indicted in Washington in 2023 on drug conspiracy and firearms offenses.
The webpage describes him as "a well known sicario and combat leader" who used profits from the sale of cocaine, fentanyl, and other drugs in the US to purchase weapons for fighting a rival cartel that had moved into Michoacan, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
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