The leader of a notorious Mexican drug gang, who confessed to directly carrying out 300 homicides and ordering 600 others, has been arrested in the central state of Mexico.
Oscar Osvaldo Garcia Montoya, the leader of the Mexican drug gang, La Mano con Ojos (The Hand with Eyes), was arrested Thursday in the Mexico City borough of Tlalpan by Federal Police.
Montoya, a deserter from Mexico's marines and a former law enforcement officer, had established himself as one of the most intimidating gang leaders in the nation and had cultivated an especially macabre reputation for his gang, which specialized in the torture and decapitation of its victims
A former enforcer and hit man for the infamous Beltran Leyva gang, Montoya used his military training to carry out a multitude of killings. He also served as a bodyguard to many of the group's top bosses before forming his own gang.
Aside from controlling the sales and distribution of illegal drugs in the state of Mexico, his current group is suspected in hundred of murders, including the 2009 massacre of 24 people in the La Marquesa forest outside of Mexico City.
According to Mexican authorities, Montoya confessed to personally carrying out 300 murders and to giving the order for 600 more. He also told police that this weekend's plans involved the decapitation of six gang members who were planning on deserting the group. The murders were to be recorded and sent to members of the media.