Mexican former state attorney general jailed 20 years for drug trafficking
Steve Gorman
(Reuters) - The former attorney general of Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Nayarit, hit hard by drug cartel violence in recent years, was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in U.S. federal prison for his role in a major Mexican-U.S. narcotics trafficking ring.
Edgar Veytia, who was Nayarit’s top law enforcement official from 2013 until his arrest in San Diego in 2017, was sentenced by a federal judge in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
He pleaded guilty in January to a single count of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.
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In some of these places, you can either cooperate with the drug lords or they might have other options!
And a lot of public officials there have been assassinated.
