Mexican federal police have arrested Jose Alfredo Landa Torres, a reputed regional boss of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, as reported by Ivan Moreno for The Associated Press: "La Familia, which officials say is Mexico's main trafficker of methamphetamine, captured nationwide attention in 2006 by rolling severed heads into a disco in the city of Uruapan," and is responsible for "some of the brashest attacks on security forces, including an ambush that killed 12 federal police officers in June." Landa allegedly was "recently named to head La Familia's operations in the state capital, Morelia," and "his alleged duties included managing finances, bribing police and overseeing street-level drug sales" as reported by Ken Ellingwood for the Los Angeles Times.
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