(28 Feb 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Pull out from mid to wide of masked Mexican marines escorting Sergio Antonio Mora, known as "El Toto", and other detainees, into room
2. Cutaway cameraman
3. Wide shot of detainees being presented at Navy facility
4. Tilt up Sergio Antonio Mora, from handcuffs to face
5. Mid of Mora, flanked by masked marines standing in front of media
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Vergara, Mexican Navy Spokesman:
"Yesterday morning, Sergio Antonio Mora Cortez was detained in the City of Saltillo, Coahuila. He is nicknamed 'El Toto', and is a member of the criminal organisation known as the Zetas, and direct boss of Julian Zapata Espinoza, known as 'El Piolin', who was detained by the Mexican Army on February 23rd, accused of being one of the alleged suspects for the killing, in our country, of Jaime Jorge Zapata, an immigration and customs agent of the United States of America."
7. Sergio Antonio Mora, aka El Toto, being led out of room
STORYLINE
Mexican marines presented to the media on Monday a captured regional boss of the Zetas drug gang who is accused of murdering a US immigration agent.
Mexican Navy spokesman Jose Luis Vergara said that the suspect, Sergio Antonio Mora Cortez, oversaw Zeta activities in the northern state of San Luis Potosi.
Jaime Jorge Zapata was killed there in an attack on February 15, and another agent, Victor Avila, was wounded.
Both were agents with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Vergara did not say if Mora was involved in that attack but he did say that Mora, known as El Toto, was the boss of Julian Zapata Espinoza, who was arrested last week and allegedly confessed that he took part in the shooting.
Mora and five other suspects, including a Honduran man, were detained on Sunday at a hotel in Saltillo, capital of the northern state of Coahuila.
Much of northeastern Mexico has seen an increase in bloodshed as the Zetas battle their former allies in the Gulf cartel for control of drug trafficking and other criminal activity.
Mexican authorities say Zapata Espinoza told them the two agents were attacked because they were mistaken for members of the rival cartel.
Vergara said Mora also is suspected in the February killing of Manuel Farfan, a retired army general who recently had become police chief in Nuevo Laredo, the city across the border from Laredo, Texas.
Federal police on Sunday also detained another alleged Zetas member, Luis Miguel Rojo, in San Luis Potosi state.
They did not said if he played a role in the attack on the US agents.
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