Vicente Carrillo Leyva, son of the late kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes, is arrested in Mexico City.
By Ken Ellingwood
April 3, 2009
Reporting from Mexico City -- Mexican authorities on Thursday announced the capture of Vicente Carrillo Leyva, a suspected top leader of a family-run drug gang based in Ciudad Juarez and one of the country's most wanted figures.
Federal law enforcement officials said Carrillo Leyva, the 32-year-old son of deceased drug kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes, was arrested Wednesday while exercising in a wealthy neighborhood of Mexico City.
The younger Carrillo was listed among the country's 24 most wanted drug suspects last week when the federal government offered $2-million rewards for each. Authorities described him as an heir to the organization once led by his father, who was known as the "Lord of the Skies" for his use of aircraft to move drugs.
The announcement came on the same day U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met outside Mexico City with top Mexican security officials to discuss how to stanch the southbound smuggling of weapons to drug cartels from the United States.
The arrest of Carrillo Leyva represents a significant victory for Mexican President Felipe Calderon's 28-month-old war against drug traffickers. But authorities say the younger Carrillo's uncle, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, known as "the Viceroy," remains in place as the leader of one of the four largest trafficking organizations in Mexico.
dude looking geeky as fuck...thats probably how he flew under the radar for so long
By Ken Ellingwood
April 3, 2009
Reporting from Mexico City -- Mexican authorities on Thursday announced the capture of Vicente Carrillo Leyva, a suspected top leader of a family-run drug gang based in Ciudad Juarez and one of the country's most wanted figures.
Federal law enforcement officials said Carrillo Leyva, the 32-year-old son of deceased drug kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes, was arrested Wednesday while exercising in a wealthy neighborhood of Mexico City.
The younger Carrillo was listed among the country's 24 most wanted drug suspects last week when the federal government offered $2-million rewards for each. Authorities described him as an heir to the organization once led by his father, who was known as the "Lord of the Skies" for his use of aircraft to move drugs.
The announcement came on the same day U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met outside Mexico City with top Mexican security officials to discuss how to stanch the southbound smuggling of weapons to drug cartels from the United States.
The arrest of Carrillo Leyva represents a significant victory for Mexican President Felipe Calderon's 28-month-old war against drug traffickers. But authorities say the younger Carrillo's uncle, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, known as "the Viceroy," remains in place as the leader of one of the four largest trafficking organizations in Mexico.
dude looking geeky as fuck...thats probably how he flew under the radar for so long
