Lawyer for drug organisation murdered - reports
A lawyer who advised one of Mexico’s most powerful drug gangs was murdered in front of his home in the border city of Tijuana, it was reported today.
Rodolfo Carrillo Barragan was shot dead on Monday night as he arrived home, municipal police commander Carlos Edmundo Otal told the government news agency Notimex.
Carrillo’s body was found lying on the stairs of his building. He had been shot in the head.
Carrillo, 59, was one of the lawyers who advised the powerful Arellano Felix drug organisation, according to Notimex, the Tijuana newspaper La Frontera, and Mexican television stations.
Brothers Benjamin and Ramon Arellano Felix allegedly built one of Latin America’s most powerful and brutal drug smuggling businesses, an organisation that appeared to meet its end with Ramon’s reported death last month and Benjamin’s arrest on Saturday.
Authorities said Benjamin confirmed reports Ramon died on February 10 in a shoot-out with police in Mazatlan.
