BOGOTA – A suspected member of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel was arrested in the southwestern Colombian city of Cali by DAS intelligence service agents, the presidential press office said.

Carlos Adolfo Garcia Yepes, who was arrested Tuesday in Cali’s Chipichape neighborhood, was allegedly in charge of logistics and coordinating drug shipments for the Mexican cartel.

The suspect moved the cocaine on speedboats that traveled from Colombia to Mexico, where the contraband was transferred to fishing boats.

DAS agents and the marine drug interdiction unit worked together to capture Garcia Yepes, the presidential press office said.

Garcia Yepes was wanted by Colombian prosecutors for drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy, among other charges.

Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations, according to experts, are the Tijuana cartel, which is run by the Arellano Felix family, and the Gulf, Juarez and Sinaloa cartels.

Two other large drug trafficking organizations, the Colima and Milenio cartels, also operate in the country.

“Los Zetas,” a group of army special forces veterans and deserters who initially worked as hitmen for the Gulf organization, may now be operating as a cartel, some experts say.

La Familia Michoacana, which operates in the western state of Michoacan, the southern state of Guerrero and the central state of Mexico, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, is considered the largest trafficker of synthetic drugs in Mexico.

The Sinaloa organization is the oldest cartel in Mexico and is led by Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman, who was arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and pulled off a Hollywood-style jailbreak when he escaped from the Puente Grande maximum-security prison in the western state of Jalisco on Jan. 19, 2001.

Guzman, considered extremely violent, is one of the most-wanted criminals in Mexico and the United States, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has offered a reward of $5 million for him. EFE