Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda served as defense minister under former President Enrique Peña Nieto and was a powerful figure in the country's drug war.
Former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on a Drug Enforcement Administration warrant, three U.S. law enforcement officials told NBC News late Thursday.
Charges along with the exact details and circumstances of the arrest have yet to be announced. DEA officials did not elaborate on which DEA office was handling Cienfuegos' case. Under Cienfuegos, the army was accused of extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses, including the 2014 Tlatlaya massacre, where 22 drug gang members were executed.
Luna is on trial in New York on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa cartel, which he was tasked with combating.
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