Narcotraficante, Marcos Arturo Beltrán Leyva, Shot Dead in Mexico
Soldiers arrive at the apartment complex in Cuernavaca where drug boss Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed in a shootout. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP photo of Antidrug special units of the Federal Police' raid on residences related to Arturo Beltrán Leyva in 2008 By Alicia Cruz Editor-in-Chief Theblackurbantimes The Drug Enforcement Administration named him to their top 11 most wanted narcotraficantes back in April 2009. The Mexican government placed a hefty $2.1 million dollar bounty on his head after naming him to their own Most Wanted list. Today, their hunt for him is over. Marcos Arturo Beltrán Leyva, aka El Barbas, one of Mexico's most notorious narcotraficante, was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Navy in the city of Cuernavaca in Morelos. The Mexican Navy's assault on the apartment complex where Beltrán Leyva and three of his cohorts were hiding out comes on the heels of the Navy's raid of a party at a mansion in Tepotzlan where another three memebers of B...