An alleged leader of one of Mexico's most powerful and violent drug cartels has been arrested, security forces say.

Hector Raul Luna Luna is said to be the head of the Los Zetas gang in the north-eastern city of Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city.

Officials said on Wednesday he was captured by soldiers in a suburb of the city, which is a key industrial hub.

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More than 2,200 people have been arrested during a 22-month investigation aimed at thwarting Mexican drug cartel efforts to distribute narcotics across the U.S. and funnel guns and money back south of the border, federal authorities said Thursday.

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DEA Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF) agents, working jointly with DEA New York OCDETF agents, last Friday arrested five suspected Honduran smugglers and seized 66 bales of cocaine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following an at-sea interdiction of the fishing vessel Two Brothers on May 24th, announced Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Caribbean Division, and Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The 87-foot, Panamanian flagged, fishing vessel was carrying 3,269 pounds of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of approximately $46 million.

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