Purported head of drug cartel arrested

Purported head of drug cartel arrested

MEXICO CITY

Federal police arrested reputed Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the northern city of Torreon on Thursday, Mexican officials announced.

After investigators narrowed Carrillo Fuentes’ whereabouts to a neighborhood of Torreon, he was taken into custody at a traffic checkpoint without a shot being fired, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam called the arrest “a capture of great importance.”

Carrillo Fuentes, 51, purportedly heads the cartel founded by his late brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and both the U.S. and Mexico had million-dollar rewards for his arrest.

Better known as “The Viceroy” or “The General,” he took over control of the Juarez drug cartel after his brother Amado, nicknamed “The Lord of the Skies,” died in 1997 in a botched cosmetic surgery. Amado got his nickname by flying planeloads of drugs into the United States.

Ore. governor’s fiancee admits sham marriage

PORTLAND, Ore.

Oregon Gov. John Kitz-haber’s fiancee admitted Thursday that she violated the law when she married an immigrant seeking to retain residency in the United States.

Cylvia Hayes said in a tearful news conference that she believes she was paid about $5,000 for the 1997 marriage. She said she was “associating with the wrong people” while struggling to put herself through college.

“It was wrong then, and it is wrong now, and I am here today to accept the consequences, some of which will be life-changing,” Hayes said.

Hayes said she was “ashamed and embarrassed” and did not tell the governor about the marriage until a reporter from the Willamette Week newspaper began asking questions this week. She appeared alone before a podium in a downtown Portland office building, saying she asked Kitzhaber not to join her because she can’t look at him without crying.

High court blocks Wis. voter-ID law

MADISON, Wis.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Wisconsin from implementing a law requiring voters to present photo IDs, overturning a lower-court decision that would have put the law in place for the November election.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared the law constitutional Monday. The following day, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Advancement Project filed an emergency request asking the Supreme Court to block the ruling.

On Thursday night, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-page order that vacated the appeals-court ruling pending further proceedings. Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented, saying the application should have been denied because there was no indication that the 7th Circuit had demonstrably erred.

Darwin note among items at auction

NEW YORK

A letter by Charles Darwin on the sex life of barnacles and a still-working vintage Apple computer — one of only 50 made in Steve Jobs’ garage in 1976 — are among the unique pieces of science history up for auction this month.

Buyers at the Oct. 22 event at Bonhams will need deep pockets. The Steve Wozniak-designed Apple 1 computer is estimated to bring $300,000 to $500,000. One sold at auction last year for $671,000.

Associated Press