MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge in Mexico has sentenced drug lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes to 28 years in prison for organized crime, money laundering and weapons violations, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Alleged Mexican drug trafficker Vicente Carrillo Fuentes is escorted by a police officer in Mexico City on October 9, 2014. Carrillo Fuentes, alias “El Viceroy,” was arrested by federal police in ...

Amado Carrillo Fuentes, one of the richest criminals of all time, is a Mexican drug lord who seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. He was known as ...

Carrillo Fuentes is the brother of drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as "The Lord of The Skies," who died in 1997. Carrillo Fuentes, nicknamed "The Viceroy," continued the brothers' business ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cartel leaders Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes are set to be arraigned in a U.S. federal court in New York City on Friday, following their surprise transfer from ...

From left: Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, accused leader of the Sinaloa cartel; Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, reputed head of the Juárez cartel; and Rafael Caro Quintero, charged with orchestrating the killing ...

Federal authorities in the United States revealed Tuesday that they will not seek the death penalty against three reputed Mexican drug cartel leaders, including an alleged former partner of the ...