Mexican Army soldiers escort Alfredo "El Mochomo" Beltran Leyva in the Mexico City International Airport in 2008. Beltran Leyva on Wednesday was sentenced to life in prison on international drug ...

A sentencing hearing for a Mexican drug cartel leader, whose organization operated in El Paso, was postponed Wednesday by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. Alfredo "El Mochomo" Beltran Leyva, 45 ...

But El Mochomo's capture by Mexican special forces in 2008 — which Mexican federal officials said his siblings blamed on Guzmán — launched a string of shadowy betrayals between the groups and ...

A Mexican cartel boss once aligned with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and referred to by authorities as one of the “Goliaths” of drug trafficking was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for ...