Eduardo "Tablas" Ravelo was added earlier this week to the wanted list

Eduardo "Tablas" Ravelo was added earlier this week to the wanted list that includes the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Boston crime lord James "Whitey" Bulger.
"From what I've heard, it's my understanding he may have had ... plastic surgery and manipulated his finger prints," said Samantha Mikeska, the FBI's lead investigator in a 5-year-old probe of Ravelo's Barrio Azteca gang.If Ravelo has had plastic surgery, he isn't the first drug gang leader to turn to doctors to try to hide his identity. In 1997, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the one-time head of the Juarez cartel, died while undergoing plastic surgery.Mikeska said Ravelo is a capo, or the leader, of the Barrio Azteca gang's operations in Ciudad Juarez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Barrio Azteca started as a Texas prison gang and has expanded to carrying out crimes in West Texas and Juarez. The gang has also formed a strong alliance as hit men with the volatile Vicente Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel in Juarez.
Ravelo and 29 other ranking members of the cartel-aligned gang were indicted by a federal grand jury last year in a Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, case targeting the gang for drug trafficking, murder, extortion and other crimes.Ravelo has been living a relatively low profile life in Mexico, Mikeska said, and is likely to have people protecting him.David Cuthbertson, the FBI's special agent in charge in El Paso, said Ravelo is thought to have ordered or approved hundreds of killings in nearly lawless Juarez.More than 3,000 people have been killed in Juarez since January 2008, when rival cartels starting battling for control of the city's valuable drug and human trafficking routes.Cuthbertson said Ravelo's arrest is likely to have a "significant" impact on the rising death toll.
There is currently no evidence that Ravelo has committed a homicide in the United States, but he is believed to have ordered several kidnappings, Mikeska said. As for his role in Mexico, Mikeska said Ravelo routinely approves killings and kidnappings."If it needs to get done, it goes through him," Mikeska said. "He is dangerous and needs to be apprehended."