Editing Carlos Beltrán Leyva

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'''Carlos Beltrán Leyva''' (born 1969) is an incarcerated Mexican drug lord with the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel. The cartel was created by the four Beltrán Leyva brothers: Héctor, Alfredo and Arturof Family: Adriana Karla daughter.<sup>[2]</sup> Born in the Sinaloan countryside in the late 1960s, Carlos and his brothers worked closely with Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, during decades of smuggling.<sup>[3]</sup>

The organization, run mainly by Arturo and Héctor,<sup>[4]</sup> formed as a splinter group of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel,
<nowiki> </nowiki>which was led by Joaquín Guzmán Loera. After Alfredo was arrested, the 
Beltrán-Leyva brothers blamed Guzmán Loera and retaliated by forming the
<nowiki> </nowiki>Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, and killing one of the Sinaloa cartel chief's 
sons in a grenade attack on a Culiacán shopping center. This sparked a war between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, which allied itself with the Gulf Cartel.<sup>[2]</sup>

== Warrant and arrest ==
Little
<nowiki> </nowiki>is known about Carlos' role in the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, and reports 
have differed on the importance of his position within the organization.<sup>[5][6]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>A warrant had been out for his arrest since 2008. However, a 2008 list 
of Mexico's 37 top drug traffickers, for which the government offered 
rewards of as much as $2 million, did not include his name.<sup>[5]</sup> George W. Grayson, a Mexico expert at the The College of William & Mary, described Carlos as "the lowest profile of the brothers".<sup>[7]</sup>

Carlos Beltrán Leyva was arrested in Culiacán on December 30, 2009, 
after he was stopped while driving with a forged license. He was found 
to be in possession of a pistol, a rifle, ammunition and cocaine, and 
was using the fake name Carlos Gámez Orpineda.<sup>[2][8]</sup> The arrest came after a citizen tipped authorities to the presence of an armed man in Culiacán.<sup>[6]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>The arrest was considered another in a string of blows against the 
Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, which had suffered from the death of Arturo 
Beltrán Leyva during a gun battle with police two weeks earlier.<sup>[5][7]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>Carlos had not been mentioned by analysts as a possible successor to 
Arturo, and the fact that he was not accompanied by bodyguards at the 
time of his arrest may suggest his role in the cartel is limited.<sup>[5]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>Nevertheless, media reports suggested the arrest of Carlos could set 
the stage for a bruising battle for control of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel.<sup>[5][7]</sup> The arrest was considered a victory in President Felipe Calderón's Mexican Drug War,
<nowiki> </nowiki>and a signal that the government would not back down in the face of 
recent reprisals from the death of Arturo Beltrán Leyva, including the 
murder of family members of Melquisedec Angulo Córdova, a marine killed during the gun battle that killed Arturo Beltrán Leyva.<sup>[9]</sup>
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