[Iran Press TV] Mexican police have nabbed seven members of an Acapulco narco mob, including the man said to be behind the slaying of some 20 people in the resort city this month.The government said Jose Lozano Martinez, who goes by the nickname "El Lozano," was jugged on Thursday in a raid, Rooters reported on Sunday.
Lozano was nabbed with six other suspected members of the Independent Cartel of Acapulco.
The gang has grabbed credit for killings in the area over the past five months.
In early January, eighteen bodies, fifteen of them decapitated, were recovered from a mass grave near Acapulco.
Public security officials said Lozano was wanted in connection with the deaths, as the group is in a bloody pie fight with other cartels to gain control of the lucrative narcotics trade.
The families of the men, many of whom were related, said most of them were mechanics that saved up money to take a vacation together each year.
Police say another suspected drug baron, who was captured in November, has revealed that the 20 were the victims of mistaken identity.
Police quoted him as saying that a faction of his gang had mistaken Mexican tourists for members of a rival cartel.
A total of 34,600 people have been killed since 2006, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched a clampdown on the country's powerful gangs, involving tens of thousands of troops.