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MEXICO – A federal judge in Mexico has ordered two army generals placedunder a form of house arrest pending an investigation for possiblelinks to the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, authorities said Thursday. The Attorney General's Office said in a statement that the generalswill remain under arrest at least 40 days while prosecutorsstrengthen their case. The investigation against retired Gen. Tomas Angeles Dauahare andGen. Roberto Dawe Gonzalez is based on a case from 2009 thatincludes "the testimony of several people on trial, including somesoldiers," the office said. An official at the Attorney General's Office says generalsprotected members of the Beltran Leyva group, which has beenbattling the Sinaloa drug cartel since 2008, when they ended analliance. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is notallowed to discuss the case. Soldiers detained the officers on Tuesday. President Felipe Calderon named Angeles Dauahare as assistantdefense secretary in 2006. He left the post in 2008, when heretired. He is the highest ranking military official to be linkedto drug traffickers during the current administration. Dawe Gonzalez is currently assigned to a military base in thewestern state of Colima. Angeles Dauahare's lawyer, Alejandro Ortega, told The AssociatedPress Thursday he hasn't been given access to court files andallowed to talk to him. He said the general told his wife he isbeing accused of taking money from associates of Edgar ValdezVillareal, who was the top hit man for Arturo Beltran Leyva, whowas killed in 2009. Valdez Villareal was arrested in 2010. Ortega said the general supports himself with army pension and ownsa house and an apartment. He said the general's wife also owns ahouse she inherited. A few senior military officers have been arrested for alleged linksto drug traffickers during Mexico's long struggle to control thecartels. Retired Gen. Juan Manuel Barragan Espinosa was detained in Februaryfor alleged links to organized crime and Gen. Manuel Moreno Avinaand 29 soldiers who were under his command in the border town ofOjinaga, across the border from Presidio, Texas, are being tried oncharges of torture, homicide, drug trafficking and other crimes. In 1997, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo was arrested when he wasMexico's drug czar. He was charged with protecting then-cocainekingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes. More than 47,000 people have been killed in drug violence sinceCalderon deployed thousands of soldiers to drug hotspots, accordingto government figures. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Silicone Heat Resistant Mat , Ipad Silicone Cases Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Silicon Kitchenware.
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