September 5, 2007
MEXICO CITY – Drug kingpin Benjamín Arellano Félix, whose Tijuana cartel once supplied 40 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States, has
been sentenced to 22 years in Mexico's toughest maximum-security prison, the Mexican federal Attorney General's Office said yesterday.
Monday's sentencing concludes the Mexican government's case against Arellano and opens the possibility of extradition to San Diego, where he was
indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2003 on drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering charges, law enforcement sources said.
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