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Zetas Cartel Leader Arrested in Connection With 49 Decapitated, Mutilated Bodies Dumped on Highway

Zeta Cartel Leader The Crazy One Daniel Elizondo Arrested in Mexico

An Army soldier stands next to Daniel Ramirez, alias "El Loco," during his presentation to the media in Mexico City, Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Mexican authorities have apprehended a drug cartel kingpin in connection with the grisly murders of 49 people whose bodies were found last week strewn along a Mexican highway decapitated and dismembered.

(Related: Latest Mexican Drug War Escalation: 49 Mutilated And Decapitated Bodies Left on Highway)

His name is Daniel Jesus Elizondo Ramirez — but he also goes by the more fitting nickname “El Loco” or “The Crazy One.” A prominent member of the notorious Zetas cartel, Elizondo is believed to have helped coordinate and carry out the massacre and body dump.

The bodies were found on May 13 with no heads, hands or feet on a highway that connects Mexico to the United States.

Elizondo was arrested in Nuevo Leon on Friday, The Daily Mail reports. But that doesn’t mean he went quietly. When authorities tried to apprehend him, he fired at army troops and even tossed a hand grenade at them in an attempt to escape.

The Daily Mail has more:

Elizondo headed the Zetas trafficking operations in the town of Cadereyta, close to where the bodies were dumped.

Officials say he was ordered to leave the bodies in the town square by gang leaders known as ‘The Shrimp’ and ‘The Speaker,’ who are both still at large.

However, Elizondo became nervous and dumped them on a nearby highway instead.

He is being held without charge at a special detention facility while prosecutors build their case against him.

The Associated Press reports that Elizondo has also confessed to the additional killings of rival Gulf cartel members and “burning or burying their bodies in another area of Nuevo Leon.”

The massacre is among the most heinous crimes committed since Mexican President Felipe Calderon came to power and declared war on the drug cartels in 2006. Since then, about 55,000 have been killed in drug related violence and roughly 5,000 have disappeared.

The Zetas tagged the crime scene with their mark, appearing to claim responsibility for the killings. Further, a video posted on a Mexican website showed “gunmen in the dark dumping the bodies,” according to The AP.

Live Leak currently has a video posted on their website which they claim shows members of the Zeta cartel handling the 49 dismembered corpses. (WARNING: The video is extremely graphic. Click photo below to watch.)

Zeta Cartel Leader The Crazy One Daniel Elizondo Arrested in Mexico

An unidentified male uses a large stick to move a human corpse.

The disturbing video shows a large number of decapitated corpses with no hands or feet piled on top of each other in what looks like some sort of dump truck. As the clip rolls on and day turns to night, you can see several figures moving about in the shot before a man is seen using a long stick to get a corpse out into the street. The images are disturbing.

The video was originally posted on You Tube by a “self-proclaimed” Zeta last week, according to Live Leak. It appears that the video has since been taken down from the popular video-sharing site.

Zeta leaders also left a message to rival gangs and well as the Mexican Army at the crime scene: “Gulf cartel, Sinola cartel, marines and soldiers, nobody can do anything against us or they will lose.”

Zeta Cartel Leader The Crazy One Daniel Elizondo Arrested in Mexico

Federal police on a vehicle guard one of the three forensic trucks where several bodies were placed after dozens of bodies were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border found in the town of San Juan near the city of Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

Shortly after the corpses were discovered, however, banners surfaced in other Mexican states denying that the Zetas were behind the killings. Authorities say it was part of a Zetas tactic to “cause confusion among authorities and the public” while shifting blame to their enemies.

As for the victims, identifying them will be difficult without heads, hands or feet. Still, the bodies could be identified with DNA samples. As of 10 a.m. on Tuesday, none of the victims had been named.

Drug cartels are increasingly using beheadings and body mutilation to intimidate and silence their opposition, which some claim is a reflection of a documented alliance formed between radical Islam groups like Hezbollah and the cartels.

Comments (46)

  • ContinentalArmy
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:48pm

    They should slowly cut off his feet; hands; legs; and arms then cut off his head!! Do unto others as you have them do unto you!! Drone Strikes hell, open season on these Animals!! Screw this damn Admin. and pacifist ways! Should just make Mexico a State and not worry about Illegal Aliens ( Immigrants )!
    And as for the Muslims, slice and dice! Works both ways, Muslims!!!

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  • SquareHead
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 2:46pm

    @MAMMY NUNN

    I grieve at the state of our nation, and the ignorance of decent people that let it get that way. As far as the crazy person they caught here. He should be executed, and as for the illegals that are convicted should be deported.

    My happiness does not come from dope heads being able to smoke dope, drunks being able to drink or obese people being able to eat donuts. Many people struggle with all sorts of addictions here in life, and are worse of because of it.

    I am passionate about Liberty and the foundations this nation was built on. Our founding fathers did not want to create government that would protect people from themselves if so the Liberty will soon be lost.

    The fact is that the War on Drugs is not working. It drives up the cost and becomes very lucrative for criminals. I suppose that it does create allot of police jobs, as does studying cow flatulence effect on the ozone layer, but I don’t want to pay for that with my tax dollars. Especially since there are minimal positive results to show for it.

    I suppose that I would be happier if watched more mindless TV, as the proverb goes “the more knowledge, the more grief”

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  • Constructionist
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:58am

    Thanks for translating ‘El Loco’ for us. Anyone know what ‘taco’ means in English?

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  • CrawfishFestival2
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:39pm

    These butchers are a bunch of savage animals –

    and to think the Obama Administration provided weapons from their Operation Fast and Furious -
    to these Mexican Drug Cartels as Freaks of Nature –

    financed by Obama’s $787 BILLION Stimulus legislation –

    should have both Obama and Holder prosecuted – by US and Mexican Government.

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  • florida123
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:36pm

    Thats the bad guy? He looks like a choir boy………….Come on Mexico, stop your corrupt police and get yourselves in order!!! These snot nose punk thugs are ruling over you people? Get it together!

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  • dmerwin
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:20pm

    Can you say “enhanced interrogation”?

    Report Post » dmerwin  
  • Meyvn
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:43pm

    Applause.

    Report Post » Meyvn  
  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:34pm

    Hey all you drug users (including Clinton and Obama) this blood is on your hands. You create the demand for these drug lords with your pathetic use of drugs.

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    • SquareHead
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:30pm

      You are wrong, except for saying it is pathetic to do drugs. The fact is that if drugs where legalized the there would not be any money in it.

      Sniffing glue is a drug! You don’t see anyone pushing “glue”, or standing on the street corner trying to sell glue, nor does anyone bring glue through the tunnels that go under the border. They are used for bringing marijuana through. If anyone could grow it here in the US legally there would not be any money in sneaking it across the border.

      The drug running and smuggling, and the money made doing it would disappear, just like what happened to alcohol during the prohibition in the 1920′s, where there was allot of money to be made in that business, as seen with Al Capone, Lucky Lusiano etc… how they got their money and power from the prohibition. Decriminalize drugs and crime will go down, and probably use as well as seen in Portugal since they decriminalized drugs in 2004.

      Like you I don’t use drugs, but I don‘t think that it is the government’s role to protect the people from themselves. By giving that job to the government, you are on the way to loose all liberty. That has lead to the anti smoking craze, with tobacco tax, and from there, fat tax, etc…

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    • SquareHead
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:55pm

      We need to legalize or at least decriminalize drugs. Look at the War on Drugs!
      IT IS NOT WORKING! The only thing it does is turn our nation into a police state!
      If you want to get rid of drugs you need a Singapore solution, where they liberally execute anybody caught with more drugs than considered personal use. They even execute tourist that brought too much weed with them, in about 8 days from when they where caught. The fact is that I fear the government than the occasional drug addict.
      I have know and seen many people trough away their life, and 3 people that committed suicide over drug and alcohol use, and people that have spent half their adult life in prison for drugs. But the fact is that all of these people did this WHILE IT WAS ILLEGAL. So if Heroin was sold at 7eleven. I don’t think that most people would run out and buy it!
      We have 3/4 million people in prisons for non violent drug charges. I don’t want to pay for that, and if everybody that who ever tried drugs where in prison then half of US would be incarcerated!!
      Is it our Government’s job here to protect us from ourselves? If hat happens you can look to the day that your credit card won’t work at McDonalds, due to you did not pass the yearly mandatory health exam, that uploads the info to some new agency so they can track your health. I am sure that something like that is already in Obama care. There might be some Fat Credits you can purchase much like the Carbon Credits

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:28pm

      SQUAREHEAD is a perfect example of those will say anything, write anything, do anything in the name of rationalizing drug legalization and it’s usage…. even if they state, ahem, that they don’t do it themselves. They’re for the freedoms and liberties of… the other guy to be drug addled buffoon.

      Clear thinking people can see right through the BS and practiced spin.

      Report Post » TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12  
    • SquareHead
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:40pm

      Your noise is like that of the sheep in Animal Farm
      The fact is that you can’t defend the War on Drugs

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    • FatFreedom
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:26pm

      @TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12

      I can’t figure you out You must either be a ;
      1. Government employee
      2. Family member /friend of a Rhino candidate
      3. Mormon, that would like to see a Mormon elected. Much like blacks voted for Obama because he is black.

      You are for sure a:
      George Bush defender
      Fox News defotee
      Rush Limbaugh subscriber or and a consumer of his Ice Tea, Gitmo crap etc…
      Public School Educated (you where trained not thaught )
      Sports fan of some sort
      Uncomfortable around people that don’t think exactly as you do.
      You are most comfortable in the middle of the herd of sheep.

      You probably have never
      1. Read Ayn Rand
      2. Know who Ludvig Von Mises was
      3. Know who Friedrich Hayek is, Lew Rockwell, Alex Jones, Tom Woods
      4. Done your own research on Ron Paul by listending to what he says and writes.
      5. Taken time to listen to someone of opposing view and have a hard time acknowledge that they are right at anything even if they state that 2+2=4.

      Websites you don’t go to or know about:
      Infowars
      Rason
      Unsensored TV
      LewRockwell

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    • FatFreedom
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:58pm

      @ TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12

      You do believe:
      Republican=Good
      Democrat=Bad
      Federal Reserve=Good, since they have smart people running it
      900 Military Bases overseas=Good, or a muslim will crash a plan into your house
      JFK was killed by Oswald alone
      Man walked on the Moon and that the Apollo mission TV film is real
      Oklahoma City Bombing was done only by Timothy McVeigh
      Flight 800 was an accident
      Vince Foster committed suicide
      Twin Towers Collapsed because of Fire
      Building 7 Collapes because of Fear! or whatever the “official report”says
      US helping to overthrough an elected official in Iran in the 50′s and incert a dictator, didn’t have any negative consequences.
      Us arming the Afgan’s was a good idea.
      You think that it was Reagan alone riding the Republican Elephant that defeated Communism, because that is what some squealing talk show host says, and the fact that comunism dismal failed economy, and civil unrest in the USSR was only a minor detail.
      The US arming Saddam Hussein was a good idea
      You believe that the 1st Gulf War was justified and that there was no alterior motive
      You belive that 1 million + dead Arabs, due to our 10 year war won’t have any negative blowback.
      You think that USA is always number one and have never loocked into the history of our foreigh policy going back over a 100 years.

      Start by reading this about Teddy Rosevelt: http://hnn.us/articles/121083.html

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:47am

      @ SquareHead
      Maybe if we deported are convicted users to a place where they could use it freely you might be more comfortable and live a happy life.

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    • TenguScriptures
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:51am

      @ squarehead. You make the rest of us Ron Paul supporters look like conspiracy theorists. You can eat the bread offered by a candidate without drinking the kool-aid offered by the fringe supporters.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 12:09pm

      Fat Freedom
      Have you every heard of “conspiracy theorist”
      Some of your examples are plausible, some are just whack job crazy.

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    • SquareHead
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:45pm

      The word “Conspiracy Theorist” gets used by the ignorant that care not to do their own research, and are more comfortable not knowing and following the main stream. I have looked into a couple of the things listed, and all I can say for sure is that the official story is rarely right, and that our Government lies. That does not mean that the theories are true, but it does mean that our Government can’t be trusted to tell the truth.

      But most of you will go in, like the average person did in Germany in 1933 and tell themselves: “What can I do about it anyway”

      It is ignorance and apathy that has gotten our nation to the dismal state it is in.

      Tomas Jefferson said: “Educate and Inform the whole mass of people… they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty”

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    • SquareHead
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 2:43pm

      @MAMMY NUNN

      I grieve at the state of our nation, and the ignorance of decent people that let it get that way. As far as the crazy person they caught here. He should be executed, and as for the illegals that are convicted should be deported.

      My happiness does not come from dope heads being able to smoke dope, drunks being able to drink or obese people being able to eat donuts. Many people struggle with all sorts of addictions here in life, and are worse of because of it. I am passionate about Liberty and the foundations this nation was built on. Our founding fathers did not want to create government that would protect people from themselves.

      The fact is that the War on Drugs is not working. It drives up the cost and becomes very lucrative for criminals. I suppose that it does create allot of police jobs, as does studying cow flatulence effect on the ozone layer, but I don’t want to pay for that with my tax dollars. Especially since there are minimal positive results to show for it.

      I suppose that I would be happier if I was a mindless sheep like the average sports fan citizen and watched more mindless TV. But happiness in and of itself is not an end.
      As the proverb goes “the more knowledge, the more grief”

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    • pantokrator
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:50pm

      OR: We could just build an actual wall, and put troops out there. We could put signs up that say, “ENTRANCE THIS WAY—->” or, “<—-THIS WAY" for people who intend to actual immigrate to the United States. And another sign behind that one that says, "WARNING: ANYONE CROSSING THIS POINT WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT". I think that could also solve our drug cartel issue.

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  • Godrulz
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:32pm

    Is this thing on?

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  • Godrulz
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:31pm

    He should be killed over a period of months.

    Report Post » Godrulz  
  • FreeSlave
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:25pm

    Somebody need to just start killing theys mother ****ers.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:28pm

      I guess this is a good thing for Mexico?

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:15pm

      Could have saved a lot of peso’s by just doing a drone strike.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:31pm

      18 comments thus far…,none with depth!
      All here need to wonder why these victims were beheaded AND dismembered.
      WHY?! Do any of you have any idea?!
      The information is ot there Damnit! SEEK IT!
      After you become informed about our porous border,coyotes and their willingness to ship Muslim terrorists across the border into the United States you may actually have a comment that merits reading! UGH!
      Get your damn learn on people!
      I really apologize for sounding like a b#*ch but PLEASE….

      Obviously.., after reading the ill informed comments thus far, I post from Wonderland!
      Down is up. Up is down. We’re painting the roses red.
      As the Cheshire Cat says”We’re ALL mad here”.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:39am

      Since your on top of it enlighten us Please.

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  • Laus Deo
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:19pm

    I remember when the zetas (aka jotas) murdered tens of paísas near Cancún… I told my ex to stay away from mexico, that region in particular. These things are not happening at the hands of wayward people.. These are the acts of evil beings.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:44pm

    Yeah, what you said he said.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:43pm

    They will let him go, as they are going to have to waterboard him to break that mess up down there, and they have become like the sheep Obama, Farakhan, Al Sharpton, Ayers, Jones, Pelosi, Holder and the gang of thugs here in the states wants U.S. Citizens to become. We are just not natured like that. This mess here in our own country is going to get cleaned up and us get our country on the right track and our schools teaching without indoctrinating. We can handle the rest. All those companies on both sides better know Americans are not going to take this mess anymore here. If Mexico wants to sacrafice their citizens to drugs and crime on the alter of the Devil, there is little we can do to help without their asking. We can no longer afford to take care of there citizens here, though. We are going through tough times. Those wanting to fight the evil should band together and stop it in its tracks.

    Report Post » blackyb  
    • Max jones
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:23pm

      Any doubt that for the people living in northern mexico, the tribulation has begun?…anyone? darfur chechnya, tibet, detroit?

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  • Sniprfire
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:42pm

    Hey Daniel Jesus Elizondo Ramirez ( I think you need a longer name Paco)

    Have fun in the shower… if you drop the soap… well you know the drill…

    E.S.A.D Esssa….

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:41pm

    He will be free all too soon; may God bring him to justice before the great heavenly throne soon enough; and may the families of his victims find peace at last.

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  • Mark0331
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:41pm

    Wonder how many of Holders guns were used to capture these victims…the swords used to decapitate these victims?…Probably came from the Muslim Brotherhood offshoots infesting the S. American continent…

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:41pm

    I hope they torture the heck out of him for info before feeding him to a wood chipper…slowly.

    Reality? He’ll be released due to bribes and murders of police/politicians…then tortured/killed by his own people to find out what he said while in custody…or, he’ll be suicided while in custody to protect the police/politicians who are corrupt from being revealed.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:51am

      That would be a dull woodchipper I hope clean cuts are usually painless.

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  • nobull14
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:33pm

    This guy will have there families killed or he will pay them off ?. He will not be in jail for long !!!!!!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:43pm

      That‘s exactly why you don’t arrest them. You kill them.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:28pm

    This man needs some serious killing if he has done these crimes. If he was here, Farakhan would be jumping on the victims families and trying to recruit him for the Black Panthers. These people are all evil.

    Report Post » blackyb  
  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:25pm

    Unless they’re going to waterboard the POS why take him alive?

    Report Post » Gonzo  
    • pap pap
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:30pm

      Because Gloria Allred will probably defend him.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:19pm

      Gonzo
      Get him in a stranglehold baby! Then go “Stormtroopin’”
      Actually, have you ever seen the movie “Man on Fire” Denzel at his finest. There are some excellent enhanced interrogation techniques in that movie. “Just What the Doctor Ordered”

      Report Post » dmerwin  
  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:20pm

    La puta. Vete a la mierda!

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