MEXICO CITY—Mexican stability forces on Sunday arrested the alleged head of a violent organized-crime group that stole tens of tens of millions of bucks really worth of gasoline every calendar year from the state oil corporation and whose war with the strong Jalisco cartel experienced turned the central state of Guanajuato into Mexico’s most violent.

Safety Secretary Alfonso Durazo claimed stability forces led by the army and such as state forces captured José Antonio Yépez, recognized as “El Marro”—Spanish for “the Sledgehammer”—alleged head of the Santa Rosa…