Alleged Barrio Azteca leader, FBI Most Wanted, arrested

Authorities in Mexico arrested a man known to be one of the accused leaders of the Barrio Azteca gang and is on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list.

Eduardo Ravelo Rodriguez, also known as “Tablas was arrested by the Mexican Army Tuesday in Michoacan. Ravelo was on the run from authorities in the U.S. for almost a decade.

Ravelo is accused of being responsible for the planning and killing of three U.S. citizens in 2010.

Killed were consular employee Lesley A. Enriquez, 35, and her husband, Arthur H. Redelfs, 34. Their baby daughter was in the back seat and was unharmed.

Jorge Salcido, the husband of another consulate worker, was riding on another white SUV and was also shot at.

At the time, Presidents Barack Obama and Felipe Calderon of Mexico strongly condemned the attacks.

More than eight years after the attack, Mexico announced a criminal investigation agency arrested Ravelo and several other accused members of Barrio Azteca. Ravelo “coordinates and gives instructions to various groups of people in charge of traffic of weapons, drug distribution, surveillance, missing persons and leaders of safe houses,” read a news release.

At the time he was included on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted, Ravelo was the second El Pasoan ever to make the list.

Several billboards were scattered around El Paso with Ravelo’s mugshot. The FBI offered up to $100,000 for information leading to his arrest.