Mass Killers For La Familia Michoacana Arrested By Mexican Federal Police

Felipe Viveros García, José Bernabé López Alcaraz and Froylán Barrera Morales

Mexican federal authorities arrested García who mastermind, participated and order at least 200 victims to be killed by his associates.

By H. Nelson Goodson

December 10, 2013

Jalisco, Mexico - On Tuesday, Mexican federal authorities announced that Felipe Viveros García, 30, a known leader of La Familia Michoacana had been arrested in Jalisco. García is considered the mastermind who ordered kidnappings, murders, extortions, drug and weapons trafficking in the states of Guerrero and Jalisco. Along with García's arrest, the following suspects were also taken into custody, José Bernabé López Alcaraz, 43, and Froylán Barrera Morales, 40.

García, Alcaraz and Morales are connected to at least 200 homicides, in which García personally murdered some of the kidnapped victims and rival cartel members. Some kidnapped victims were held in safehouses operated by La Familia Michoacana in the municipalities of Teloloapan and Arcelia.

García operated in the municipalities of Teloloapan, Apaxtla de Castrejón, Cuetzala del Progreso, Tepecuacuilco, Iguala de la Independencia and Arcelia, in the state of Guerrero, and in other various municipalities in Jalisco, according to Federal Police and Mexico's Attorney General's Office who successfully planned and coordinated the arrests of the three suspects.