Mexico: Zetas drugs cartel boss Omar Trevino arrested

By Euronews

Published on 04/03/2015 - 20:01•Updated 09/12/2019 - 10:08

Mexican authorities have arrested the head of a leading drugs cartel, the Zetas – the second such high-profile capture in a week. Omar Trevino, the

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Mexican authorities have arrested the head of a leading drugs cartel, the Zetas – the second such high-profile capture in a week.

Omar Trevino, the brother of another captured gang boss, was picked up in the northern city of Monterrey.

The US claims he’s responsible for several abductions and murders as well as cocaine smuggling.

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