U.S. arrests Chinese-Mexican suspected meth king..

[Virginia Dare]

this story is very interesting, I suspect this is probably about the last we'll hear of it...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States arrested on Monday a Mexican laboratory owner accused of helping make huge quantities of crystal meth, four months after police found $206 million cash in his Mexico City mansion.

Mexico's attorney general, Eduardo Medina Mora, said U.S. authorities had confirmed the arrest of Chinese-born Zhenli Ye Gon

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It was not immediately clear if the arrest was the result of Mexico's request, although U.S. authorities had previously

said no warrants had been issued for Ye Gon. Mexico now has 60 days to make its case for extradition.

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Ye Gon says he is an innocent victim of a government plot.

Mexican methamphetamine producers have muscled in on the U.S. market. So-called superlabs that mass produce the drug have sprung up across Mexico, where precursor chemicals like pseudoephedrine are more easily available.

The government recently clamped down sales of cough remedies that contain pseudoephedrine.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072400085.html