Mexican linchpin extradited to U.S.
Drug number one Benjamin Arellano Felix, individual of the leaders of the foremost Tijuana cartel, was extradited to the United States on Friday, Mexicos attorney generals administrative center held.Arellano Felix was lone of seven brothers who ran the cartel until he and the majority of the leadership was arrested. The Tijuana cartel, in addition notorious since the Arellano Felix Organization, was diluted since a outcome, but is still considered individual of Mexicos foremost drug trafficking operations.He had been convicted of orderly crime activities fashionable Mexico and was serving several sentences fashionable prison. He is wanted within the United States on two indictments in favor of conspiracy, money laundering, drug trafficking, operating a drug smuggling organization, and murder.The Tijuana cartel, in its max out voguish the 1990s and prematurely 2000s, controlled the flood of cocaine, marijuana and other drugs into the United States through Tijuana and Mexicali, the Mexican attorney generals responsibility thought.