The Yahoo News reported on July 16, 2013, that Trevino Morales, 40, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel was captured by Mexican Marines after they intercepted a pickup truck with $2 million in cash.
The don was captured on a dirt road in the countryside outside the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Best known as 'Z-40', he was behind some of the worst atrocities of the Central American country's drug war.
A brutal killer, Miguel Angel Trevino would "stew" his enemies by submerging them in oil and fuel containers before he lit them on fire.
There is also a news that ex-police officer and two others were confined in a city bordering Texas, Anahuac.
Z-40 took the possession of his predecessor, Heriberto Lazcano who was killed by Mexican troops. He then controlled Zetas and widened this group to make it dreadfully powerful.
Reports say that these Zeta's who would initially serve the Gulf Cartel, has detached since 2010. It has now grown wild and has turned into one of the fearsome crime groups in Mexico.
This is the biggest victory for the new president of Mexico, Pena Nieto.
It is now predicted that a new member of the group will take over the place of Z-40 and would try to continue this tough war.
As told to Der Spiegel by former security chief, Jhon: "You will never win this war when there is so much money to be made. Never."
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