Federal police arrested alleged Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in Mexico’s northern city of Torreon on Thursday, authorities announced Thursday. Both the U.S. and Mexico had million-dollar rewards for his arrest. (Oct. 10)
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1. Army officers escorting handcuffed Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alleged leader of Juarez drug cartel leader at a tarmac to put him on helicopter
2. Carrillo Fuentes going inside helicopter
3. Helicopter carrying Carrillo Fuentes leaving tarmac and heading to a prison
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Federal police arrested alleged Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the northern city of Torreon on Thursday, Mexican officials announced.
51-year-old Carrillo Fuentes purportedly heads the cartel founded by his late brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and both the U.S. and Mexico had million-dollar rewards for his arrest.
National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said at a news conference in Mexico City that investigators narrowed Carrillo Fuentes’ whereabouts to a neighborhood of Torreon and he was taken into custody at a traffic checkpoint without a shot being fired,
A suspected bodyguard was also detained.
Better known as “The Viceroy” or “The General,” Carrillo Fuentes took over control of the Juarez drug cartel after his brother Amado, nicknamed “The Lord of the Skies,” died in 1997 in a botched cosmetic surgery.
Amado got his nickname by flying planeloads of drugs into the United States.
It was the second capture of a major drug lord in as many weeks. Mexican authorities nabbed Hector Beltran Leyva as he ate fish tacos in a seafood restaurant in central Mexico on 1 October.
