Mexican police present Edgar Jimenez, 14, accused of being a hit man. Picture by AFP Source: The Australian MEXICAN troops arrested a 14-year-old US citizen suspected of being a hit man for a drug cartel and beheading his victims.
Edgar Jimenez was captured late on Thursday at an airport in Cuernavaca, a popular tourist destination just south of Mexico City, as he attempted to board a plane to Tijuana, the army said in a statement. The teen was going to try to see his mother in California.
Jimenez, also know as El Ponchis, belonged to a group of teens, most of them family members, that became notorious in Mexico last month after video clips were posted on the internet of the group posing with assault rifles and showing them with their victims.
The clips shocked Mexicans because the gang members were so young.
The army said the teen was captured along with two of his sisters, one of whom is suspected of being a lover of a leader in the Beltran Leyva cartel, a drug gang originally from Sinaloa state but which has much of its operations in central Mexico.
The teen acknowledged to the media that he killed at least seven people, although he said he did it under the influence of drugs and was pressured to do the killings by the cartel leader. Asked if he regretted his actions, he said: “Yes, I'm sorry I got involved with all this.”
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