Mexico extradites alleged drug cartel boss to US
Mexico extradites alleged drug cartel boss to US
Mexico has extradited alleged drug cartel head Eduardo
Arellano-Felix to the United States, San Diego US Attorney Laura E. Duffy said
on Friday. American courts charge Arellano-Felix with racketeering, money
laundering and narcotics trafficking. “Today’s extradition is a milestone
in our fight against the Mexican drug cartels,” Assistant Attorney General
Breuer said in a statement. The Arellano-Felix Organization was long one of the
most notorious multi-national drug trafficking organizations that controlled
the flow of cocaine, marijuana, and other drugs through the Mexican border
cities of Tijuana and Mexicali into the US. The extradition marks the end of a
20-year DEA investigation into this “vicious drug cartel,” said Drug
Enforcement Agency special agent William R. Sherman. Mexican authorities
arrested Arellano-Felix in Tijuana on October 25, 2008, after a gunfight with
police. In 2010, an extradition order was issued on him and he spent the next
two years trying to appeal the ruling
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