Originally published on July 16, 2013

Notoriously brutal Zetas gang drug lord Miguel Angel Trevino Morales was arrested by marines in Mexico in an early-morning raid, Reuters reported. Reuters reported that, "Marines arrested Miguel Angel Trevino, aka Z-40, after intercepting his pick-up truck with a helicopter a few miles (km) from his home town of Nuevo Laredo on the U.S. border, government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said in Mexico City. "Trevino, 40, was caught with two associates following a months-long operation to track him down.

Authorities also seized more than $2 million dollars in cash and a cache of arms in the operation. "Trevino's capture follows a string of blows in 2012 against the Zetas, whose previous leader was killed by marines in a firefight in northern Mexico last October.

Among the most shocking incidents pinned on the Zetas have been massacres of migrant workers, an arson attack on a Monterrey casino in 2011 that killed 52 and the dumping of 49 decapitated bodies near to the same city last year. "The Mexican government said Trevino was wanted for a litany of crimes including murder, torture, money laundering and ordering the kidnapping and execution of 265 migrants near the northern town of San Fernando. The bodies of dozens of murdered migrant workers were recovered there in both 2010 and 2011."

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