MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Former Mexican drug cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Felix was handed over by the United States to Mexico on Monday to face criminal charges, including organized crime, after serving time in a U.S. federal prison in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The Mexican Army and the attorney general's office, known as the FGR, received Arellano Felix at the Brownsville-Matamoros border crossing and then sent him to the maximum security prison "El Altiplano", the FGR said in a statement.
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