MEXICO CITY - Authorities in Mexico arrested Vicente Carrillo Leyva, a top leader of the Juarez drugs cartel and one of the government's most-wanted criminals, prosecutors said Thursday.

The 46-year-old who used a false name and passed himself off as a businessman "was spotted in Mexico City exercising in a park near his home," said federal police commissioner Rodrigo Esparza.

Carrillo Leyva -- son of Juarez cartel kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes who died during plastic surgery to change his appearance in 1997 -- is accused of controlling numerous drug trafficking routes into the United States and money laundering.

The government last week named Carrillo Leyva as one of Mexico's most-wanted narcotics suspects and offered a reward of two million dollars for his capture.

The announcement came just hours before the Obama administration's top security officials were set to discuss new strategies for fighting the drug cartels with their Mexican counterparts in Mexico.

Mexico's attorney general last Monday published a list of 24 drug kingpins in the country's six largest gangs and offered rewards of up to two-million-dollars for each.

The Juarez cartel is one of the major drug gangs involved in bloody feuds over lucrative trafficking routes into the United States.

More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year alone in suspected drug attacks amid a government crackdown on warring cartels, while last year saw more than 5,300 killed in spiralling attacks.

The violence flared after President Felipe Calderon declared war the cartels more than two years ago, prompting armed resistance and setting off turf warfare between rival gangs.