Mexican attorney general arrested on drug charges
A Mexican attorney general suspected of drug trafficking was arrested this week in San Diego. Edgar Veytia is charged with conspiring to manufacture, distribute and import heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, according to an indictment. Ref. Source 5i.
Accused Mexican state AG grew up in San Diego
Until his arrest last month at the border on drug trafficking charges, Edgar Veytia was a man who lived in two worlds: suburban San Diego and the small, heavily agricultural Mexican Pacific coast state of Nayarit, where he was attorney general. Ref. Source 2x.