Mexican police raid home of drug trafficker

Mexican authorities launched a raid Tuesday on a Mexico City home belonging to the country's most notorious drug baron, the Attorney General's Office said.

No one was arrested, but authorities uncovered key evidence that should lead them to "other homes and people related to this drug trafficker," according to a news release issued by the office."The search of the home was the result of investigations seeking to locate and detain the known drug trafficker Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias `The Lord of the Skies,' and members of his criminal organization," the release said. The alias comes from his preferred method of transporting illegal drugs with an aircraft fleet.

Carrillo Fuentes, whose cartel controls the middle section of the U.S.-Mexican border while rival organizations work to the east and west, is best known for having brought down Mexico's former drug czar, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo.

Gutierrez Rebollo was fired and arrested in February, allegedly for taking bribes from Carrillo Fuentes in exchange for protection. The fallen general is believed to have tipped off the drug lord to a raid on his sister's wedding in January in which Carrillo Fuentes narrowly escaped capture.

The home searched Tuesday in an upscale neighborhood in the south of Mexico City was used mostly by the drug lord's son, Vicente Carrillo Leyva, 20, a key player in the cartel, the office said.

Described by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as "the most powerful man in the Mexican drug trade," Carrillo Fuentes has been a fugitive for eight years and is the subject of 26 separate DEA investigations.