The Arrest Of Mexico's Zeta Cartel Leader Trevino Morales (Updated)

Mexico's Most-Wanted Drug Lord Who 'Stewed' His Victims Alive In Burning Oil Barrels Is Captured With $2Million In Cash -- Daily Mail

* Trevino Morales, known as 'Z-40' was caught in Nuevo Laredo
* Trademark murder method was 'the stew' - burning men alive in barrels
* Crimes include murder of 72 migrants in 2010 and massacre of 192 in 2011
* Zetas known for brutal crimes in Mexico, including mass slaughters
* His arrest is hailed a boon for President Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico's most feared and famous drugs baron has been captured driving a pickup truck laden with eight guns and $2million in cash near the US border.

Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously cruel leader of the Zetas cartel, is behind some of the largest and most gruesome massacres of a drugs war that has claimed the lives of up to 100,000 people since 2006.

The 40-year-old, whose trademark method of execution was to burn his enemies alive in oil drums, was snared by Mexican Marines yesterday on a dirt road outside the border city of Nuevo Laredo, which has long served as the Zetas' criminal heartland.

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