Mexico issues arrest warrants in 'Fast and Furious' gun trafficking case
January 9, 2022
6:48 PM CST
Last Updated 18 hours ago
Reuters
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MEXICO CITY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A Mexican judge has issued seven arrest warrants related to a decade-old cross border arms trafficking sting, including for the country's most notorious drug lord and an ex-security minister, the attorney general's office said on Sunday.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the convicted Sinaloa cartel boss, ex-Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna and former federal police intelligence official Luis Cardenas, were named in a Sunday statement from the attorney general's office linked to the so-called "Fast and Furious" gun running scandal from 2009-2011.
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The once-secret "Fast and Furious" scheme set out to stop U.S.-Mexico gun smuggling by allowing people to illegally buy arms in the United States and take them to Mexico so that the weapons could be tracked and lead law enforcement officials to drug cartel leaders.
But some of the weapons were later blamed for gangland slayings in Mexico and set off bitter cross-border recriminations over the operation.
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