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Mexican Cartel Leader Linked to 2013 Southlake Killing Arrested

FBI said it plans to release more information possibly as soon as Monday.

NBCDFW.com

The Mexican Attorney General's Office announced Sunday afternoon the arrest of Jose Rodolfo "El Gato" Villareal-Hernandez, the alleged mastermind behind the murder of a drug cartel lawyer in Southlake in May 2013.

The office announced the arrest on Twitter. A spokesperson for the FBI said they were not commenting on the arrest over the weekend but may have more details on Monday.

Villarreal-Hernandez was indicted on federal charges in Fort Worth and put on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list after authorities suspected he commissioned the killing of Juan Jesus Guerrero-Chapa, a Mexican defense attorney who was gunned down in Southlake Town Square in May 2013 as he shopped with his wife.

Guerrero-Chapa was the personal attorney for Osiel Cardenas, the former head of Mexico’s notorious Gulf Cartel and a U.S. government informant.

The brother of Villarreal-Hernandez, Ramon, was arrested in 2018 in Mexico and extradited to the U.S. in 2020 for charges related to the killing. Ramon pleaded guilty last year.

Three other men who tracked Guerrero-Chapa and his family for months by using high-tech surveillance, GPS monitoring devices on their cars and remote control cameras placed around the family's Southlake home, were also convicted.

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