Jaime González Durán is a Mexican

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 drug trafficker who is one of the 31 original founding members, and he ranked third in the chain of command of the criminal organization known as Los Zetas

Los Zetas

Los Zetas is the second most powerful drug cartel in Mexico and considered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as the most violent drug cartel and paramilitary enforcement group in Mexico...

. A former Mexican Army

Mexican Army

The Mexican Army is the combined land and air branch and largest of the Mexican Military services; it also is known as the National Defense Army. It is famous for having been the first army to adopt and use an automatic rifle, , in 1899, and the first to issue automatic weapons as standard issue...

 elite soldier of the Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales

Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales

The Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales or more commonly known as Fuerzas Especiales/Special Forces is a special forces unit of the Mexican Army's Special Forces Corps, trained by the world's special forces. There are a total of nine battalions, one High Command GAFE unit and one other group...

 (GAFE), he was trained in counter-insurgency

Counter-insurgency

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 and locating and apprehending drug cartel

Drug cartel

Drug cartels are criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. The term was applied when the largest trafficking...

 members. He deserted in the late 1990s and was hired along other 30 ex-soldiers by the Gulf Cartel

Gulf Cartel

The Gulf Cartel is one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico, and perhaps the oldest organized crime group in the country...

 leader, Osiel Cárdenas Guillen as his private enforcement army.

After Osiel's arrest, González controlled a large-scale illegal drug distribution and transfer to the United States, mostly of cocaine

Cocaine

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 and marijuana. He also controlled much of the illegal drug trade

Illegal drug trade

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 in the Mexican states of Nuevo León

Nuevo León

Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...

, Michoacán

Michoacán

Michoacán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 113 municipalities and its capital city is Morelia...

, Hidalgo, Veracruz

Veracruz

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, Tabasco

Tabasco

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, Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo

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 and Mexico City

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. The Attorney General has cataloged him as one of the most dangerous and violent of organized crime members, and one of the most wanted by Mexican and U.S. justice.

Jaime González Durán is believed to have been responsible for the murder of narcocorridos singer Valentín Elizalde

Valentín Elizalde

Valentín Elizalde Valencia was a Mexican banda music singer gunned down in an ambush. Known by the nickname "El Gallo de Oro" , his biggest Banda hits included "Vete Ya," "Ebrio de Amor", " Vete Con Él", "Vuelve Cariñito", "Como Me Duele", "Vencedor", " Mi Virgencita", and "Soy Así"...

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Arrest

González was arrested on November 7, 2008 by Mexican Federal Police agents in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. A vast arsenal

Arsenal

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 of firearms and ammunition were confiscated with his arrest. The Mexican Attorney General

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 filed charges against him for his probable responsibility of organized crime

Organized crime

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 and crimes against health. He was admitted in the maximum security federal prison Penal del Altiplano

Penal del Altiplano

The Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 "Altiplano" is the maximum security federal prison The Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 "Altiplano" is the maximum security federal prison The Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 "Altiplano" is the maximum security federal prison...

, in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico State, where he is serving a sentence of 21 years.