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US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder were to meet with Mexico's Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora and Interior Minister Fernando Gomez-Mont in Jiutepec, Mexico -- the latest in a string of high-level visits by US officials, culminating in a visit by President Barack Obama later this month.
Obama and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who visited Mexico last week, have promised to help their southern neighbor's fight against drug trafficking and violence that has spilled over the US border by tackling the US demand for drugs and supply of weapons to Mexico.
The visit by Holder and Napolitano comes a day after the US Senate approved a 550 million dollar package to stop the southward flow of guns and money to cartels from US sources.
And in another show of support against the drug cartels, Obama last week announced extra agents for the southern US border and vowed to staunch narcotics demand.
Carrillo Leyva, who used a false name and passed himself off as a businessman, "was spotted in Mexico City exercising in a park near his home," said police commissioner Rodrigo Esparza.
The 32-year-old suspect was presented to the media wearing a white tracksuit.
He is the son of legendary Juarez cartel kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes -- who died during plastic surgery to change his appearance in 1997.
His Juarez cartel -- named after Mexico's most violent city of Ciudad Juarez on the US border -- is one of the major drug gangs involved in bloody feuds over lucrative trafficking routes into the United States.
Carrillo's capture came after the government last week offered a reward of two million dollars for information leading to his capture.
Among the other drug outlaws with two-million dollar bounties on their heads are the head of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman, and the heads of the "La Familia" and "Los Zetas" drug cartels.
Sinaloa cartel head Guzman, a fugitive since his escape from a maximum security prison near Guadalajara in 2001, is on two exclusive lists, the roster of Mexico's most wanted and Forbes magazine's world's wealthiest people.
More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year alone in suspected drug attacks, and more than 5,300 died in spiraling violence last year.
The violence flared after President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels more than two years ago, deploying more than 36,000 troops countrywide that has ignited an armed response and increased turf warfare between cartels.
Obama and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who visited Mexico last week, have promised to help their southern neighbor's fight against drug trafficking and violence that has spilled over the US border by tackling the US demand for drugs and supply of weapons to Mexico.
The visit by Holder and Napolitano comes a day after the US Senate approved a 550 million dollar package to stop the southward flow of guns and money to cartels from US sources.
And in another show of support against the drug cartels, Obama last week announced extra agents for the southern US border and vowed to staunch narcotics demand.
Carrillo Leyva, who used a false name and passed himself off as a businessman, "was spotted in Mexico City exercising in a park near his home," said police commissioner Rodrigo Esparza.
The 32-year-old suspect was presented to the media wearing a white tracksuit.
He is the son of legendary Juarez cartel kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes -- who died during plastic surgery to change his appearance in 1997.
His Juarez cartel -- named after Mexico's most violent city of Ciudad Juarez on the US border -- is one of the major drug gangs involved in bloody feuds over lucrative trafficking routes into the United States.
Carrillo's capture came after the government last week offered a reward of two million dollars for information leading to his capture.
Among the other drug outlaws with two-million dollar bounties on their heads are the head of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman, and the heads of the "La Familia" and "Los Zetas" drug cartels.
Sinaloa cartel head Guzman, a fugitive since his escape from a maximum security prison near Guadalajara in 2001, is on two exclusive lists, the roster of Mexico's most wanted and Forbes magazine's world's wealthiest people.
More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year alone in suspected drug attacks, and more than 5,300 died in spiraling violence last year.
The violence flared after President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels more than two years ago, deploying more than 36,000 troops countrywide that has ignited an armed response and increased turf warfare between cartels.
