Hector Beltran-Leyva Dies After Heart Attack in Prison

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Mon Nov 19, 2018 at 05:28:32 AM EST
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Arturo, Hector, Alfredo and Carlos Beltran-Leyva

Imprisoned cartel leader Hector Beltran-Levya has died of a heart attack at 56.

Hector Beltran-Leyva was arrested in 2014. Since 2016, he has been imprisoned at Altiplano. He faced a lot of charges in Mexico and two Indictments in the U.S. Here is the Mexican Government's official announcement.

The incident took place at about 15:07, when the chief of prison security reported Beltran Leyva had severe pain in the left chest, so immediately the federal center doctors gave him first aid under the protocols.

When he did not recover, the prison moved him to the Adolfo Lopez Mateos Hospital in Toluca where he died after receiving treatment in the emergency room. [More...]

It should be noted that, at all times, Beltran Leyva, 56 years old, received the required medical care and hospital staff as well as the federal center, clinical exhausted all resources at its disposal to restore it.

Hector had been approved for extradition to the U.S., but in 2017 he won an appeal against it.

Hector assumed leadership of the Beltran-Leyva drug trafficking organization (BLO) after his brother Arturo was killed during a shoot-out with police in 2009. Another brother named Carlos was arrested in 2010. Hector is also the brother of Alfredo Beltran-Levya (arrested in 2008, extradited in 2014, and sentenced to life in prison on a guilty plea in 2016.

Alfredo, whose case is on appeal, was represented by two of the lawyers now representing El Chapo).

The Beltran Leyva brothers and El Chapo are related through marriage. Alfredo Beltran-Leyva is