Mexico City - Vicente Carrillo Leyva, one of Mexico's most wanted drug lords and son of the legendary leader of the Juarez Cartel, Amado Carrillo, has been arrested by Mexican Army and federal police officers, authorities confirmed Thursday.

Federal police commissioner Rodrigo Esparza said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday morning in Bosques de las Lomas, a residential area in Mexico City, while exercising near his home.

Carrillo Leyva, 32, known by the alias "El Ingeniero" - the engineer - is one of 24 drug bosses for whose arrest Mexican authorities are offering a reward of some 2 million dollars each.

The alleged drug boss, who belongs to the second generation of Mexican drug traffickers known as the "narcojuniors," was presented to the media in white sports clothing and black sunglasses.

Esparza said Carrillo Leyva pretended to be a businessman under the alias Alejandro Peralta Alvarez, to hide his illegal activities. Police were able to track him down in part because his wife, Celia Quevedo Gastelum, was using her real name.

He is the second young drug boss arrested in recent days. Vicente Zambada Niebla, son of the Sinaloa Cartel boss Ismael Zambada, has also been arrested.

"Carrillo Leyva is regarded as one of the heirs of the criminal organization known as the Juarez Cartel," said Marisela Morales, deputy public attorney general for organized crime.

His father - known as "the lord of the skies" because he used a fleet of airplanes to transport drugs - died during plastic surgery in 1997.

According to authorities, Carrillo Leyva had leadership tasks with the Juarez Cartel and was involved in money laundering for the group, under the guidance of cartel boss, his uncle Vicente Carrillo Fuentes.

The arrest coincided with the visit to Mexico of US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and of US Attorney General Eric Holder.

Mexican authorities are waging a tough battle against the country's powerful drug gangs, with thousands of federal army and police officials deployed across several states. Last year alone, some 6,300 people were killed in Mexico in incidents related to organized crime.