Convicted last year of collaborating for two decades with the Sinaloa Cartel, he learned his fate in the same court and before the same judge who convicted El Chapo. In a statement, he insisted on presenting himself as a victim
The story of Mexican drug trafficker Eleazar Medina Rojas is one of murder, fake identities, legal scandals and a nearly two-decade struggle to bring him to justice
The former secretary of Public Security profited from lucrative, sole source contracts for location tracking and phone tapping equipment
The trial of former president Felipe Calderón’s secretary of public security demolishes the myth of the super-policeman who took on the cartels and reveals him to be the partner of the criminals he promised to fight
The New York jury reached a unanimous verdict on the five crimes charged against the former secretary of public security of Mexico during the government of Felipe Calderón
Twelve New York citizens must reach a unanimous verdict on each of the five charges against the former Secretary of Public Safety
Jesús ‘Rey’ Zambada testified to handing over millions of dollars to the former Mexico security chief, who has elected not take the stand during his New York trial
Prosecutors call a former Mexican cop and a Sinaloa Cartel frontman to testify about how million-dollar bribes greased the wheels of organized crime
The secretary of public security during the presidency of the rightist leader was arrested in Dallas in 2019, charged with taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel