EDITORIAL EXTRADITED AND INDICTED.JUSTICE is finally at hand for Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, the Mexican Mexican named after or originating in Mexico. Mexican axolotl see ambystomamexicanum. Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum drug kingpin who pleaded not guilty in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. federal court Monday. In 1980, Arellano was arrested in San Diego on suspicion of trying to sell cocaine cocaine (kōkān`, kō`kān), alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the coca shrub. A commonly abused illegal drug, cocaine has limited medical uses, most often in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in , but he posted bail and fled to Mexico. He was arrested in Tijuana 13 years later, and spent 10 years in a Mexican jail. But even though he was supposed to be extradited to the U.S. in 2004, it's taken until now for the two governments to agree on the details. Arellano's extradition extradition (ĕkstrədĭsh`ən), delivery of a person, suspected or convicted of a crime, by the state where he has taken refuge to the state that asserts jurisdiction over him. is good news on two fronts: It means he will be held accountable for his crimes, and that the Mexican government is at last more interested in prosecuting criminals than in protecting them. |
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