Story By: Amanda Morales, Sub-Editor: Michael Leidig, Agency: Central European News

This alleged cartel member has been arrested for brutally killing seven men in a Mexican brewery.

Suspect Marco G., alias ‘El Gordo Brackets’, arrested on suspicion of being involved in the murder at the El Yogui brewery in the city of Reynosa in the state of Tamaulipas on 5th April, according to the local Attorney General’s Office.

Mexican newspaper Excelsior report a group of armed men had arrived at the premises at 6:00 am and after violently throwing the victims to the ground they shot them dead at point-blank range.

Five men aged in their early twenties died in the attack along with the 50-year-old owner of the brewery and an unidentified 35-year-old man.

The Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation and offered a reward of up to 2,000,000 MXN (70,562 GBP) in exchange for information that would help to find the attackers.

No motive has been provided for the attack although the suspect is an alleged member of the ‘Los Metros’ criminal organisation.

He is currently in preventive detention for and will remain there for a period of three months until the investigation is finished.

The ‘Los Metros’ gang is a splinter group of the now-defunct ‘Cartel del Golfo’ drug cartel which began its activity in the 1930s when they would smuggle alcohol into the United States during prohibition.

The cartel was based in Tamaulipas and began to fracture after the arrest of its leader Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez in 2012, with smaller groups now fighting among themselves for territories in cities in the northeast of Mexico such as Matamoros, Tampico, and Reynosa.

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