Top Drug Suspect Cleared, Rearrested
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A man accused of heading Mexico’s largest methamphetamine smuggling ring has been cleared of money-laundering charges, but federal agents immediately rearrested him on a U.S. extradition request. A judge in Guadalajara dropped money-laundering charges against Jose de Jesus Amezcua, the federal attorney general’s office said. The office said it will appeal. When Amezcua, 32, and his brother Luis, 34, were arrested June 1, the agency announced that it had broken up the country’s largest methamphetamine cartel.
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