Attorney General Edgar Veytia of the state of Nayarit, Mexico, has been
arrested on charges of international narcotics trafficking conspiracy,
according to
court documents
[text, PDF] filed by federal officials on Tuesday. The gist of the
grand jury indictment obtained on Veytia earlier this month is that
Veytia "together with others, did knowingly and intentionally conspire
to manufacture and distribute one or more controlled substances,
intending, knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that such
substances would be unlawfully imported into the United States." Veytia
was
taken into custody on Monday
[Reuters report] in San Diego by a joint team of FBI, DEA and Homeland
Security agents. The arrest was made upon a warrant issued by the
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York [official website] earlier this month...
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