News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Arellano to face additional charges

By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Union Tribune Photo

December 12, 2006

New charges are expected to be filed this week that could lead to the death penalty against the man prosecutors say is the leader of the Arellano Félix Mexican drug cartel.

The charges against Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, who was captured at sea in August, will accuse him of additional criminal activity over the past three years, prosecutors said.

Arellano is accused of racketeering, drug trafficking and money laundering in a decades-long conspiracy that prosecutors say moved tons of drugs into the United States and that resulted in numerous killings on both sides of the border.

The charges, originally filed in 1997, were last updated in 2003. The evidence includes tens of thousands of pages of case files and more than 550,000 intercepted radio transmissions.

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