Mexican security officials stated they have captured Jesus Salas Aguayo, the man who has been running the Juarez drug cartel after the arrest of Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in 2014.

As reported by The Associated Press, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido announced the alleged cartel leader was captured on Friday in the municipality of Villa Ahumada, an area which is about 75 miles south of the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Rubido further informed that one of Salas Aguayo's bodyguards was killed, and another one was arrested.

Illustrating the captured man’s alleged connection to drug related crime, Rubido pointed out on Sunday that Salas Aguayo has been tied to a 2010 car bombing in Ciudad Juarez as well as a 2012 bar attack that ended in the deaths of 15 people. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's website says Jesus Salas Aguayo is wanted for possession, distribution of narcotics, and for conspiracy.

The Juarez Cartel has for the most part controlled trafficking around Ciudad Juarez.

Their former leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes was arrested in October.

Fuentes, better known as “The Viceroy” or “The General,” had assumed control over the Juarez drug cartel after his brother Amado, who went by the name “The Lord of the Skies,” died in 1997 in a botched cosmetic surgery operation.

Fuentes led his gang in a battle for control over the area’s trafficking routes with interlopers garnered from the Sinaloa cartel. As reported in the Guardian, his campaign resulted in a multi-year war that cost close to 8,000 lives.

The area Fuentes controlled is the main route of passage for 70 percent of the cocaine that comes into the United States. Fuentes had a $5 million reward on his head from U.S. authorities at the time of his capture.