Edgar Valdez Villareal was a top lieutenant and hit man for Arturo Beltrán Leyva and also led a group of killers responsible for murders carried out by the drug trafficking organization.
“El Cochi”, as the criminal is known, was taken along with seven other people to the Assistant Attorney General's Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SEIDO).
Martín Villegas, 38, is accused of smuggling cocaine from Central and South America to the United States.