Ex-Mexican prosecutor sentenced to 20 years in US drug case

A former state attorney general from Mexico was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison in a U.S. drug-trafficking case accusing him of using wiretaps and other law enforcement tools to protect the turf of a violent drug cartel. Edgar Veytia told a judge in federal court in Brooklyn that he made a “mistake” by taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from the cartel while he was chief law enforcement officer in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit. Veytia – a dual U.S.-Mexico citizen who had lived off and on in San Diego – had pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges he took bribes from a drug organization headed by Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez, a kingpin known as “H2.” In exchange, he helped the organization smuggle massive amounts of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine to the U.S. from 2013 until the time of his arrest in 2017, prosecutors said.

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