2013-09-02 18:12:52

Mexican cartel leader arrested


(Vatican Radio) Mexican authorities have arrested the alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel.

Listen to James Blears' report from Mexico City: RealAudioMP3

"Alberto Carillo Fuentes was arrested in the hotel zone of Nayarit, Western Mexico. Mexican officials say a finance paper trail led them straight to him. Five Mexican states cooperated in this operation. He's accused of drug trafficking, organised crime, and murder. He's been brought under heavy security to Mexico City for questioning by a special police task force.
In the 1980s his older brother Amado - nicknamed "Lord of the Skies" because he crammed US-bound planes with cocaine - ran the business, but he died in 1997 after botched plastic surgery. Police say Alberto took the family business over from another brother, Vicente, who'd been suffering ill health. This is the third arrest of a major drug cartel leader in less than three months."







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