Mexico's Juarez drugs cartel boss Vincente Carrillo Fuentes captured
Top officials hail the seizure of Vincente Carrillo Fuentes as 'a capture of great importance'
Police have arrested alleged Juarez drugs boss Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the northern city of Torreon, officials announced.
After investigators narrowed Carrillo Fuentes' whereabouts to a neighbourhood of Torreon, he was taken into custody on Thursday at a traffic checkpoint without a shot being fired, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said.
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam called the arrest "a capture of great importance".
Carrillo Fuentes, 51, purportedly heads the cartel founded by his late brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and both the United States and Mexico had million-dollar rewards for his arrest.
Better known as "the viceroy", he took control of the Juarez cartel after his brother Amado, nicknamed "lord of the skies," died in 1997 in a botched cosmetic surgery. Amado got his nickname by flying of drugs into the US.
It was the second capture of a major drug figure in as many weeks. Mexican authorities nabbed Hector Beltran Leyva in central Mexico on October 1.
The arrests come as Mexico's federal government is under international pressure over the forced disappearance of 43 students by police and a possible massacre of 22 suspected gang members by soldiers. Everyone from outraged Mexicans to the UN is demanding justice.