Arnoldo Rueda Medina

Arnoldo Rueda Medina is a Mexican criminal dedicated to drug trafficking and formerly employed as a lieutenant for La Familia Cartel, which is based in Michoacán, Mexico. Rueda was allegedly in charge of operations under La Familia leaders Nazario Moreno González and José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, who are both on Mexico's most-wanted list of drug suspects. Rueda started his criminal career by stealing automobiles, then in 2004 he became the cartel's hitmen lieutenant dedicated to track and murder cartel rivals from the Milenio Cartel. By the mid 2000s, he was in charge of coordinating the cartel's methamphetamine fabrication and smuggling operations. Rueda was arrested on July 11, 2009 by elements of the Mexican Federal Police. Minutes...