Over 400 gang related deaths in Tijuana since September can be traced to a single brutal gangster. But even with the Mexican military hot on his heels, billboards asking for help in arresting Teodoro Garcia Simental do not include a picture of him for fear of reprisal. "You don't want to be the one responsible for putting Teo's picture in public," said an anonymous U.S. law enforcement source. "There's no future in it." Garcia, thought to be in his mid-30s, runs a network of hideouts in Baja California where he keeps kidnapped victims–his main source of revenue–caged. Another Simental trademark is to leave the decapitated bodies of his victims in public places.
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