La Familia cartel leader is arrested

One of the last major leaders of the pseudo-religious La Familia drug gang has been captured, Mexican officials said yesterday.

Martin Rosales Magana had been on the run since a breakaway gang threatened to kill relatives of those who still sympathized with La Familia.

He allegedly took refuge in a state bordering La Familia’s stronghold of Michoacan and plotted an alliance with his group’s old enemies, the Zetas.