Spain nabs Moroccan drug baron on international arrest warrant

Spain nabs Moroccan drug baron on international arrest warrant

RABAT, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Spanish police captured Wednesday night an international drug baron who had escaped a Moroccan prison where he was serving an eight-year jail term there, Morocco 's official MAP news agency reported on Thursday.

The drug lord, Mohamed Taieb Ahmed, better known as El Nene, was arrested in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan Mediterranean coast, while driving on one of the city streets.

The arrest was made following an international arrest warrant issued by Morocco last December, after El Nene escaped from the prison of Kenitra, …