Teodoro García Simental

Teodoro García Simental (a.k.a.: El Teo and El Tres Letras, born 1974) is a former drug lord and lieutenant of the Mexican criminal organization known as the Tijuana Cartel, and later allied with the Sinaloa Cartel. He was arrested by Mexican Federal Police - Special Forces on 12 January 2010 in La Paz, Baja California Sur.

Biography García started working for the Tijuana Cartel in 1995, along with his brother, Antonio García Simental (alias "8-9" or "El Chris"), who was a cartel enforcer, under the orders of Ramón Arellano Félix. When the Tijuana Cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Félix was arrested on October 25, 2008, a violent power struggle erupted between García and Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano over the leadership of the Tijuana Cartel. García left the organization, formed his own gang, and forged an uneasy alliance with the rival Sinaloa Cartel. When splitting from the Tijuana Cartel, his faction engaged in a war with it, which caused violent crime in Tijuana to increase significantly. and is also known for dissolving the bodies of those who were in business with rival drug gangs by drowning them in caustic soda. Upon being arrested, García's lieutenant, Santiago Meza López — known as the Stew Maker, claimed to have dissolved over three hundred bodies this way in 2008. The Mexican Army stated that it believed Meza's claims to be true. Authorities feared that the younger García was planning to reignite a gang war for control of Tijuana's drug trafficking routes.