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'Get your face mask on son, you're nicked!': Swine flu safety first as Mexican police arrest drug lord
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Last updated at 9:59 AM on 30th April 2009


Arrested: Armed police bring in Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa (centre) and Miguel Angel Reyes Grajales, suspected members of the Zetas, the feared armed wing of a drug cartel based in the Gulf of Mexico


Weapons haul: A rocket launcher and guns, along with ammunition, are put on display with those arrested


Taking no chances: The team - and suspects - were all decked out with face masks, to help keep swine flu at bay


The armed officers took no chances while transporting the suspected gang members Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, Miguel Angel Reyes Grajales and Gabriela del Toro Copto

[size=1.4em]The Mexican police force took no chances after capturing a suspected leader of a ruthless Gulf cartel which is believed to be behind thousands[size=1.4em] of deaths.

[size=1.4em]Not only did they have to worry about arresting a man armed with a rocket launcher, they also had to contend with the threat of swine flu.[size=1.4em]

[size=1.4em]They left the property in the city of Matamoros, near Mexico's border with Texas, with their suspect - who had a[size=1.4em] $2million reward on his head [size=1.4em]- as well as a haul of weapons which included a rocket launcher.

[size=1.4em]But fears over the swine flu epidemic, which has brought Mexico to a standstill, meant they all donned face masks - and they also had the presence of mind to bring spares for the suspects.

[size=1.4em]Gregorio Sauceda, 44, is considered to be a founder of the Gulf cartel's brutal armed wing, the Zetas, which is notorious for beheading rival smugglers.
[size=1.4em]He was flown to the capital, Mexico City, after his arrest.

[size=1.4em][size=1.4em]The capture scores another point for conservative President Felipe Calderon, who has put dozens of traffickers behind bars in a high-stakes war on drug cartels whose turf wars have killed some 2,000 people this year.

[size=1.4em]Mexican drug gangs have killed some 6,300 people, mainly rivals and police, across the country last year and Washington is worried the violence could be spilling over the border.

[size=1.4em]A government spokesman said Sauceda briefly took over the running of the Gulf cartel after soldiers arrested gang leader Osiel Cardenas at a party in Matamoros in 2003 and was one of its most violent hitmen.

[size=1.4em]Cardenas was extradited to the United States in 2007.

[size=1.4em]In the past few weeks soldiers have also captured Vicente Carrillo Leyva, the 32-year-old son of legendary drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and Vicente Zambada, the son of Sinaloa cartel boss Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada.[size=1.4em]

[size=1.4em]U.S. President Barack Obama praised Calderon's drug war in a visit to the Mexican capital this month.

[size=1.4em]He has also pledged more support in cracking down on the southbound flow of weapons and cash that fuel the cartels in Mexico.

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