US offers $1 million reward for the arrest of Mexican cartel leader who 'ordered the 2013 murder of a lawyer turned informant in Texas'
The U.S. Department of State is offering a $1 million reward for information that would aid authorities in capturing and/or convicting a top ranking member of a Mexican cartel. According to the feds, Jose Rodolfo Villarreal oversees the San Pedro Garza Garcia and Monterrey Plazas for the Beltran-Leyva Organization Drug Cartel. The 42-year-old Mexican national was reportedly in charge of shipping cocaine and marijuana to the United States. Villarreal also is linked to numerous criminal incidents in Mexico and the U.S. 'to maintain his organization's power and status.' The Department of State said Villarreal plotted the 'murder-for-hire' of Mexican lawyer Juan Jesús Guerrero for two years before a team of hitmen killed him on May 22, 2013 outside a shopping center in the Dallas, Texas, suburb of Southlake. The United States has issued a $1 million reward for the arrest of José Rodolfo Villarreal, a top ranking official of the Beltran-Leyva Organization Drug Cartel