**One of Mexico’s most-wanted alleged drug traffickers, Teodoro “El Teo” Garcia Simental, has been arrested, officials say.**He was picked up in the city of La Paz on the Baja California peninsula. Mr Garcia has been blamed for rising violence in the border city of Tijuana.
A $2m reward had been offered for information leading his capture.
He is the second alleged drug baron to be detained by the Mexican government in less than a month.
“No shots were fired. It was a very fast operation. The investigation has been going on for a long time,” a police officer who took part in the raid told Reuters.
Mr Garcia is believed to be behind a wave of attacks in Tijuana in recent years.
Last year, a hitman called “the soup-maker” confessed to dissolving hundreds of bodies in acid for Mr Garcia.