Cartel’s Financial Chief in Custody, Police Say

Mexico has captured the financial mastermind of the infamous Juarez drug cartel, the government said.

Atty. Gen. Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said the arrest of Ricardo Garcia Urquiza, alias “The Doctor,” was a mortal blow to the cartel, a loose affiliation of drug gangs from the western state of Sinaloa.

Although he was not well known and is not listed among international fugitives, Cabeza de Vaca said, Garcia was Mexico’s main “businessman” in a vast network of production and smuggling stretching from Colombia through Central America and Mexico to the U.S.