{"id":19872,"date":"2021-09-15T12:27:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=19872"},"modified":"2021-09-15T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:27:03","slug":"mexico-drug-lord-the-viceroy-sentenced-to-28-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/09\/15\/mexico-drug-lord-the-viceroy-sentenced-to-28-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico drug lord ‘The Viceroy’ sentenced to 28 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A court in Mexico has sentenced the former leader of one of the country’s biggest drug trafficking cartels to 28 years in jail.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vicente Carrillo Fuentes took over control of the Ju\u00e1rez cartel after his brother died during botched plastic surgery in 1997.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thousands of people were murdered in turf wars between rival cartels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Ju\u00e1rez cartel has lost much of its power since Vicente Carrillo Fuentes was arrested in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, who was known as The Viceroy, was found guilty of drug trafficking and organised crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 58-year-old was one of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) most wanted men for whose capture they offered a reward of $5m (\u00a33.6m).<\/p>\n

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He was detained at a police checkpoint in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila in October 2014 along with one of his bodyguards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police said he had been keeping a “low profile”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vicente Carrillo Fuentes became the leader of Ju\u00e1rez cartel after the death of his older brother Amado, who was known as Lord of the Skies for his knack of smuggling large quantities of drugs in his private fleet of aeroplanes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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