Editing Héctor Beltrán Leyva (section)

== Arrest ==
Beltrán Leyva was arrested by the Mexican Army on Wednesday, 1 October 2014, at about 2:30 PM inside a restaurant, Mario's Fresh Seafood, in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato,
<nowiki> </nowiki>10 blocks away from the city center. He was arrested in a lightning 
raid by federal Army special operations agents, while eating a late 
lunch with another man, businessman and local political activist German 
Goyenechea, an associate. The restaurant was empty of customers save for
<nowiki> </nowiki>those two at the time; both were dressed casually but expensively, in 
jeans. According to official reports, not a single shot was fired during
<nowiki> </nowiki>the operation, even though both men had pistols. Goyenechea is alleged 
by the federal criminal investigations chief, Tomas Zeron, to have 
served as the financial operator of the group, presumably laundering 
drug money. He has been listed as a member of a nonpartisan civic group 
known as Mexican Civic Parliament and Mexico's Green Party.<sup>[16][17][18]</sup>

On 6 October 2014, he was transferred by federal agents to the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 (commonly referred to simply as "Altiplano"), a maximum-security prison in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico.<sup>[19]</sup> He was accused of violating Mexico's Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives.<sup>[20]</sup> The next day, he was formally charged in a federal court for drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime offenses.<sup>[21]</sup>
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