José Antonio Yépez was arrested Sunday in Guanajuato, which has become one of Mexico’s most-violent states owing to cartel feuds.
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MEXICO CITY—Mexican security forces on Sunday arrested the alleged head of a violent organized-crime group that stole tens of millions of dollars worth of gasoline each year from the state oil company and whose war with the powerful Jalisco cartel had turned the central state of Guanajuato into Mexico’s most violent.
Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said security forces led by the army and including state forces captured José Antonio Y...