Z-40 Captured score another victory for Sinaloa/CIA/PRI

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Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, head of the brutal Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in northern Mexico, according to the Mexican government.

Trevino Morales, known as "Z-40", was captured in Nuevo Laredo, near the US border at dawn on Monday.

He took control of the Zetas following the death of group founder Heriberto Lazcano in October 2012.

Correspondents say his capture is a success for authorities battling the powerful drug-trafficking cartels.

It was confirmed by a government spokesman during a news conference on Monday night.

The Zetas were formed by defectors from a Mexican elite police unit and quickly became infamous for their brutality, which included the beheadings of kidnapped migrants and rival gang members.

The group split in 2010, sparking brutal turf wars in the north of the country.

Unlike other members of the cartel who defected from the military, "Z-40" was a civilian who worked his way up through the Zetas after they broke away from their original paymasters, the Gulf Cartel, and began running drug-trafficking operations themselves, says the BBC's Will Grant in Mexico City.

He is believed to be responsible for carrying out several notorious attacks involving particularly sadistic violence including the torture and murder of 72 Central American immigrants in San Fernando in the northern state of Tamaulipas.

Before he became the group's overall leader, Trevino Morales co-ordinated the gang's important Nuevo Laredo drug corridor into the United States.

BBC News - Mexico Zetas leader Miguel Angel Trevino captured




Visit Mexico, brehs

@Brown_Pride move to Nuevo Loredo, I told you it's the place to be, breh!

 

[Morph]

Treviño Morales had a $5 million bounty on his head placed by the U.S. government, $2 million by the Mexican government, and had rivals of his cartel gunning for him. He was protected by some 200 hit men, plus corrupt cops and officials who helped form a circle of 15 levels of security around him, difficult for anyone to penetrate, especially a government whose intelligence was often compromised.

Crazy shyt, 15 security rings, 200 gunmen. It's crazy how just last week they captured the Ndragheta's main cocaine dealer, and the 'Ndrangheta supposedly is strongly connected to Los Zetas. Bet that Italian dude ratted him out.

So either he's a meth head with a fast food habit, or the Mexican Marines fed him a knuckle sandwich during the arrest.

 

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and another man has already taken his place

 

[Hood Critic]

Chapo is