Lucio R. -Material from: Vanguardia archive, Tamaulipas Gob, and "Pepe"
Some
reports are calling today’s arrest of Comandante Ramas, as “the man who was the replacement for Z42”, “Z40’s closest compadre”,
And “the greatest target subsequent to Z42”.
While
he is/was a long time Zeta and an important regional leader, he has never been
mentioned as
the new Zs premier leader.
His name is Ramiro
Pérez Moreno, alias “El comandante Ramas”, “7-4”, or “El Rama”. As of 2013 he was reported as the Jefe de
Plaza for Nuevo Laredo.
Escaped from prison in 2008
In researching his
history there isn't much in the press/blog archives, but there is an interesting
story from 2008.
In 2007, "El Ramas,"
was arrested in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, along with Salvador Alfonso MartÃnez
Escobedo, "La Ardilla,"- a close friend of Lazca, who later became a senior Zeta- and with Gerardo
Sánchez Trujillo, Alfredo de la Fuente Ramos and Luis Antonio Rodriguez Azuara.
They were incarcerated,
when a year later, an armed commando with AK47s and AR15s burst into the Centro de Readaptación
Social (Cereso) "Duport Ostión" in Coatzacoalcos.
After the gunmen immobilized guards and officials, they liberated all the men named above, who were apart of the 2007 arrest.
The armed commando was described at the time:
“a group of Los Zetas, the armed enforcers for Golfo Cartel”
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Lazca and Ardilla |
What
is reported about Monday’s capture, as reported by Tamaulipas State government:
The Tamaulipas
Coordination Group announced that in an operation by state and federal security
forces, on Monday March 23, Ramiro Pérez Ramos "El Rama," classified
by the National Security Commission as regional commander of the cartel Los
Zetas and one of the leaders of that group, was arrested in the city of Nuevo
Laredo.
He was added to the
Federal list of 14 priority objectives in the second phase (2014) of Tamaulipas
Security Strategy.
A ground operation led
to the arrest of Pérez Ramos with several of his accomplices identified as
Carlos Roberto Hernandez "El Pato," Humberto Eleuterio Gutiérrez
MartÃnez, "El Sonrics," Luis Rolando Caudillo Garza, "El
Guicho," and Daniel Israel Peña de
la Rosa "El Piedrolo."
They refer to him as Ramiro
Pérez Ramos, however his booking name in 2007 in Moreno not Ramos.