(MEXICO CITY) — Mexican police and soldiers on Wednesday captured Omar Trevino Morales, widely considered to be the most important leader of the Zetas drug cartel that once carved a path of brutal bloodshed along the country’s northern border with the U.S. National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said at a news conference in Mexico City that the man known as “Z-42″ was arrested in a pre-dawn raid in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a wealthy suburb of the northern city of Monterrey. A simultaneous raid on another street in the same suburb reaped Carlos Arturo Jimenez Encinas, allegedly Trevino’s finance chief, Rubido said. Tomas Zeron, the attorney general’s criminal investigations chief, called Trevino “one of the most dangerous and bloodthirsty criminals in Mexico” and said he faced at least 11 criminal counts including drug trafficking, organized crime, kidnapping and oil theft.