(NPR) Retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who served as Mexico's secretary of national defense during an extended, intensely violent struggle between Mexico's army and the nation's drug cartels, was arrested Thursday night at Los Angeles International Airport and faces drug-trafficking charges.
Mexico's foreign secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, confirmed the arrest via Twitter late Thursday, writing that U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau informed him of Cienfuegos' detention. On Friday, Ebrard tweeted that Mexico's consul general in Los Angeles has learned that Cienfuegos will be transferred to New York to face five charges related to drug trafficking.
The DEA declined NPR's request for comment on the case.
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