Gunmen blocked roads with burning vehicles and exchanged fire with security forc...
MEXICO CITY - Gunmen blocked roads with burning vehicles and exchanged fire with security forces in a central Mexican city on Tuesday, while security officials denied that a wanted gang leader had been captured.
The brazen skirmishes in the city of Celaya in Guanajuato state sparked rumors on social media that security forces had closed in on Jose “El Marro” Yepez, the head of the Santa Rosa de Lima criminal cartel, and possibly arrested him. “El Marro” is also suspected of organizing the theft of fuel directly from a nearby Pemex refinery in the city of Salamanca.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador aggressively confronted fuel theft early last year, shortly after taking office, ordering the temporary closure of especially vulnerable pipelines which in turn provoked weeks of fuel shortages.Luis Ernesto Ayala, a senior Guanajuato security official, wrote on Twitter that rumors spread on social media suggesting that an unnamed leader of a criminal group in the state had been arrested were false.
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