MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has captured two leading members of the notorious Arellano Felix cartel, among the top drug trafficking fugitives wanted in the United States, press reports said Friday.Efrain Perez and Jorge Aureliano Felix appear on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's list of fugitives, each with a $2 million bounty on his head.
The two were captured in a raid in Tijuana on the border across from San Diego that also netted five other suspected drug traffickers, including police officers, Televisa news and other media said.
Televisa aired video of the arrests by federal authorities on its nightly broadcast, though the attorney general did not confirm the reports.
The Tijuana cartel is one of the most powerful criminal gangs in Mexico, controlling the flow of cocaine, marijuana and other drugs through the Mexican border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali and into the United States.
Two years ago, the gang suffered a major blow with the arrest of accused capo Benjamin Arellano Felix on charges in Mexico. Weeks earlier, his brother, the cartel's ruthless enforcer, Ramon Arellano Felix, was gunned down in a shootout with police.
