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Teodoro García Simental (a.k.a.: ''El Teo'' and ''El Tres Letras'', born 1974) is a former drug lord and lieutenant of the Mexican criminal organization known as the Tijuana Cartel, and later allied with the Sinaloa Cartel. He was
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ed by Mexican Federal Police - Special Forces on 12 January 2010 in
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Biography

García started working for the Tijuana Cartel in 1995, along with his brother, Antonio García Simental (alias "8-9" or "El Chris"), who was a cartel enforcer, under the orders of Ramón Arellano Félix. When the Tijuana Cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Félix was arrested on October 25, 2008, a violent power struggle erupted between García and Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano over the leadership of the Tijuana Cartel. García left the organization, formed his own gang, and forged an uneasy alliance with the rival Sinaloa Cartel. When splitting from the Tijuana Cartel, his faction engaged in a war with it, which caused violent crime in
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to increase significantly. According to Tijuana's Chief of Police, García was principally responsible in the late 2000s for the increase in the number of homicides in the city. García is best known for running an
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and
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network, and is also known for dissolving the bodies of those who were in business with rival drug gangs by drowning them in caustic soda. Upon being arrested, García's lieutenant, Santiago Meza López — known as ''the Stew Maker'', claimed to have dissolved over three hundred bodies this way in 2008. The
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stated that it believed Meza's claims to be true.


Arrest

The Mexican Federal Police was offering a two million
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bounty for information leading to the capture of Teodoro García Simental. He was also wanted by the U.S.
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(DEA). García was arrested on January 12, 2010, by Mexican Federal Police in a luxury home complex named Fidepaz, located in
La Paz, Baja California Sur La Paz (, ) is the capital and largest city of the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Baja California Sur, with a 2020 census population of 250,141 inhabitants, making it the most populous city in the state. La Paz City is located in La ...
. He was arrested together with an individual named Diego Raymundo Guerrero García. One month later, on February 7, 2010, Manuel García Simental, García's younger brother and lieutenant, was arrested in the Baja California port city of La Paz. Authorities feared that the younger García was planning to reignite a gang war for control of Tijuana's drug trafficking routes.


See also

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Mérida Initiative The Mérida Initiative (named after Mérida, the city where it was agreed upon), also called Plan Mexico (in reference to Plan Colombia), was a security cooperation agreement among the United States, the government of Mexico, and the countries o ...
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Mexican Drug War The Mexican drug war is an List of ongoing armed conflicts, ongoing Asymmetric warfare, asymmetric armed conflict between the Federal government of Mexico, Mexican government and various Drug cartel#Mexico, drug trafficking syndicates. When the ...
* List of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords * War on Drugs


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