SAN DIEGO — A former drug kingpin and leader of Tijuana’s notorious Arellano-Felix cartel is asking for early release from a 25-year prison sentence on “compassionate” grounds. Benjamin Arellano-Felix ...
When former Tijuana drug kingpin Benjamín Arellano Félix pleaded guilty to two crimes in San Diego federal court in 2012, he admitted as part of his plea that during a six-year period in the mid-1990s ...
Benjamin Arellano Felix seemed to get off easy considering he was one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers in the 1990s. He pleaded guilty in January to crimes that would give him no more ...