US Charges Mexican Officials for Cartel Ties

0:00It's April 29th. You're listening to El Paso News today, AI-powered local news. The U.S. Justice Department just dropped charges on Ruben Roca, the governor of Mexico's Sena Loa State, along with a bunch of current and former officials for allegedly teaming up with the Sena Loa cartel to flood the U.S. with massive amounts of drugs. In exchange, they got political backing in bribes, according to the Feds, with Rocious supposedly elected back in 2021, thanks to a cartel. Faction led by the sons of El Chapo Guzman, known as Lochapitos. Rocious office claims they haven't even been notified about these accusations yet, while the U.S. Embassy in Mexico made it clear they're going after. Corruption that fuels organized crime, no matter where U.S. laws reach. Ambassador Ronald Johnson had already promised last week to tackle this kind of graft head-on. Meanwhile, the net widened to snag other state-level players, including the mayor and a former police commander and Kuliacan, Sena Loa's capital, a city.

1:03Long torn up by cartel bloodshed, signaling the U.S. is digging deep into these cross-border ties.