Staff
-Nuevo León

    Just 10 days after Omar Treviño Morales, “Z-42”, was arrested in San Pedro, federal authorities arrested his partner in the grand scheme of the Zetas in the same municipality.
Menera Daniel Sierra, 33, alias “Danny Menera”, was arrested by the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR) on Saturday at a hotel in the Valle Oriente sector of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
Federal forces detained five alleged members of the Zetas in Nuevo Leon, including a regional operator of the criminal group.
    Daniel Sierra Menera, identified as a regional head of the criminal group, was arrested in San Pedro Garza Garcia. On March 4, Omar Trevino, “Z-42” was captured in the same municipality.
    “Menera Sierra was considered regional head for this criminal group and kept its headquarters in Piedras Negras, Coahuila,” explained Monte Alejandro Rubido, National Security Commissioner of Mexico.
    “He was allegedly in charge of the transfer of drugs and trafficking of migrants to the United States.”
    He is also credited with having ordered attacks against state security forces, mainly of the Group’s Special Weapons and Tactics (GATE) in March and August last year, where he had supposedly been killed in an operation by the Mexican Marines in Jimenez, Coahuila back in 2013.
    Along with Daniel Menera Octavio Gómez Gómez, alleged drug trafficking head in charge of airway from Colombia to Mexico was also apprehended.
    These arrests allowed by another in the municipality of Apodaca, where they captured Ernesto Balderas Medrano, head of the Zetas in Monterrey.