Servando Gómez Martínez

Servando Gómez Martínez , also known as “ La Tuta ” (German: “the teacher”) or “ El Profe ” (German: “the professor”) (born February 6, 1966 in Arteaga, Michoacan , Mexico ) is the founder of the La drug cartel Familia Michoacana and, until his arrest, was the leader of the Knights Templar cartel ( Caballeros Templarios ), which was split off from it .

Servando Gómez Martínez

Criminal career

Gómez was a primary school teacher in Arteaga, hence his nickname "La Tuta" or "El Profe". He is on the list of the 37 most wanted drug lords published by the Mexican government in 2009 . He belongs to the new type of narco bosses who do not shy away from the public, give interviews in national and international media or publish videos on Youtube and express themselves on Twitter.

arrest

The Mexican security forces started a large manhunt for Gómez in 2014. The attorney general put a bounty of 30 million pesos on him. With the help of armed vigilante groups, he was mainly sought in the Terra Caliente region. On June 21, 2014, his son Huber Gómez Patiño was arrested by units of the Federal Police in Arteaga. On February 27, 2015, Gómez was arrested without resistance by members of the Federal Police in Morelia .

Web links

• Portrait on insightcrime

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thom Walker: Fear and respect: on the trail of a Mexican drug lord. channel 4, January 28, 2014, accessed March 18, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Denis Düttman: Media star among Mexico's drug lords has finished broadcasting. In: German Mexico Newspaper. February 28, 2015, accessed March 18, 2015 . 
3. Jump up ↑ Police catch son of powerful Mexican drug lord. Zeit Online , dpa, June 22, 2014, accessed on March 18, 2015 . 
4. ^ Nil / AFP / dpa: Powerful drug cartel: Chief of the Knights Templar captured in Mexico. Spiegel Online , February 27, 2015, accessed March 18, 2015 .