Like something out of Breaking Bad, only adding cocaine and heroin, the top law enforcement official in the state of Nayarit, busted on drug charges:
Mexican state attorney general arrested at U.S. border in San Diego on drug trafficking charges
Federal agents in San Diego have arrested the attorney general for the Mexican state of Nayarit on charges that he conspired to smuggle heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine into the U.S.
Edgar Veytia, 46, was detained Monday at the U.S. border in San Diego on an indictment handed down by a grand jury in New York, Ralph DeSio, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said Wednesday.
The indictment was filed March 2 in the Eastern District of New York — the same jurisdiction where federal prosecutors have charged Sinaloa cartel commander Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — and a U.S. magistrate judge in Brooklyn unsealed the charging papers on Tuesday.
Veytia allegedly was affiliated with the Sinaloa Cartel, and went by several aliases, including Diablo (Devil).
