Here’s the Possible Fallout for Capture of Mexican Cartel Boss Wanted in Southlake Slaying

Here’s the Possible Fallout for Capture of Mexican Cartel Boss Wanted in Southlake Slaying
January 12, 2023 sdcpm
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Featuring TorchStone VP, Scott Stewart

It took almost a decade, but mounting U.S. pressure to capture a Mexican cartel leader wanted for a sensational daylight murder in a busy and affluent Southlake shopping center paid off.

José Rodolfo Villarreal Hernández, a cartel boss known as “El Gato” or “the Cat,” was one of the most wanted men in Mexico, with a $1 million U.S. bounty on his head. The feds say he ordered the brazen, 2013 mob-style murder of a cartel lawyer at Southlake Town Square over a personal grudge he harbored for years after the murder of his father.