U.S. News & World Report · 16h
Mexico Ex-Drug Czar Sentenced to More Than 38 Years in US Prison Over Cartel Bribes
Mexico's former Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna sits before U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan where he was sentenced to more than 38 years in U.S. prison for accepting bribes from the drug cartels he was supposed to fight, in Brooklyn federal court in New York City, U.S., October 16, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
InSight Crime · 10h
Mexico’s Former Security Chief Just Got Decades in Prison. But Will That Curtail Cartel Corruption?
Judge Cogan said that aside from his “very pleasant demeanor and articulateness,” García Luna had the “same type of thuggishness as El Chapo,” the former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who was sentenced in 2019 to life in prison by the same judge.
Bloomberg L.P. · 1d
Mexico’s Ex-Top Drug Cop Gets 38 Years for Aiding Cartel
Mexico’s former top security chief was sentenced to more than 38 years behind bars in the US for secretly providing protection to kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s brutal Sinaloa cartel while he was supposed to be leading the nation’s war on drugs.
Detroit News · 2d
Mexico’s ex-public security chief sentenced to 38 years in US for taking cartel bribes
Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former secretary of public security, was convicted by a New York jury in 2023 of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect the violent Sinaloa cartel that he was supposedly combating. He is the highest-level Mexican government official to be convicted in the United States.
The Washington Post · 1d
Zeta drug lord continued to control cartel from inside a Mexican prison, says US indictment
A U.S. indictment unsealed in the District of Columbia claims that the leader of one of Mexico’s most violent gangs continued to control an offshoot group, the Northeast Cartel, from inside a Mexican
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