Mexican authorities arrest drug cartel leader

By Helen Murphy
Bloomberg News
Posted: 04/02/2009 09:29:01 AM MDT

“Mexican authorities arrested Vicente Carrillo Leyva, the alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel and one of the nation’s most-wanted traffickers, the Attorney General’s Office said today. Leyva was captured yesterday while doing his morning exercises near his Mexico City home, the office said in a statement on its Web site. He was using a false name and had passed himself off as a businessman, the statement said. Leyva ran the Juarez cartel and is the son of the late drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who died after botched plastic surgery in 1997.”

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