A judge in Mexico ruled Wednesday that this week's arrest of an alleged top drug cartel boss in a city bordering Texas was illegal. However his defense presented video recordings from security cameras at his house showing marines arriving at the residence, entering and extracting the suspect. The statement did not name the person in question, but a Tamaulipas state government official confirmed that it was alleged Gulf cartel figure Jose Alfredo Cardenas. Polite," is nephew to the brothers and former Gulf cartel leaders Osiel and Antonio Cardenas. The day of his arrest in Matamoros, the Mexican navy issued a statement saying that he was the presumed leader of "a criminal organization in the region."

Source: ABC News February 22, 2018 01:09 UTC