Servando 'La Tuta' Gomez, Most-Wanted Drug Kingpin, Captured in Michoacan Anahi Rama and Simon Gardner - Thomson Reuters
go to original February 27, 2015

Mexico has captured the country's most wanted drug lord still at large, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, police said on Friday, in a boost for President Enrique Pena Nieto as he grapples with grisly gang violence.

Gomez, 49, was the prime target of Pena Nieto's drive to regain control of Michoacan, a violent western state wracked by clashes between Gomez's Knights Templar cartel and heavily-armed vigilantes trying to oust them.

His arrest comes a year after the capture of Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful drug smuggling gangs in the world.

It also comes as Pena Nieto seeks to quell outrage over violence, impunity and corruption in Mexico after the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers by corrupt police in league with gang members.

A police spokesman said federal police captured Gomez in Morelia, Michoacan's state capital, after months of intelligence work. "He will be brought to Mexico City in the coming hours to make a declaration."

Gomez was arrested at a house without any shots being fired, local media reported.

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Last May, Servando "la Tuta" Gomez told Guillermo Galdos he left teaching because it "wasn't satisfying". (Channel 4 News)

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