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Mexico's most-wanted drug lord who 'stewed' his victims alive in barrel oil captured

Mexican marines have captured one of the world's most notorious drug-gang leaders in a raid near the US border.

Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, 40, head of the brutal Zetas cartel, was intercepted with two lieutenants in a pick-up truck near Nuevo Laredo.

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