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EL PASO — Police arrested a 16-year-old boy on a capital murder charge Wednesday in the shooting death of a Mexican drug cartel official who also was a U.S. government informant.
The boy, not identified because of his age, is the fourth person to be arrested this week in the May 15 slaying of Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana.
Greg Allen, El Paso’s police chief, had said Tuesday that a fellow midlevel cartel member and U.S. informant, Ruben Rodriguez Dorado, hired 18-year-old U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca and 17-year-old Christopher Duran to carry out a hit on Gonzalez.
Police said the 16-year-old was paid to provide surveillance of Gonzalez.
