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Border & Immigration

Arellano-Felix Brother Extradited to San Diego

By Adrian Florido / Border Reporter
Published August 31, 2012 at 1:08 PM PDT
This story was published more than 12 years ago.

The last of the notorious Arellano-Felix brothers arrived in San Diego Friday to face prosecution for his alleged role in running Tijuana’s biggest drug cartel.

Arellano-Felix Brother Extradited to U.S.
The last of the notorious Arellano-Felix brothers arrived in San Diego today to face prosecution for his alleged role in running Tijuana’s biggest drug cartel.

Eduardo Arellano-Felix, 55, is scheduled to appear before a federal judge on Tuesday, to face charges of drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering.

He’s accused of playing a key role in running the notorious Arellano-Felix cartel, which long controlled drug trafficking routes between between Tijuana and San Diego and Mexicali and Calexico. Prosecutors say their proceeds reached the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Arellano-Felix was arrested following a shootout at his Tijuana home in 2008, and extradited to San Diego after multiple failed appeals.

Two of his brothers are currently serving U.S. prison sentences for their roles in the cartel’s operations.

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Adrian Florido
Adrian Florido is a reporter for the Fronteras Desk where he covers the U.S.-Mexico border, immigrant and tribal communities, demographics, and culture. Before joining KPBS, he was a staff writer at Voice of San Diego. There he reported on San Diego neighborhoods, focusing on immigrant and under-served communities as well as development, planning, land use, and transportation. For a year, he delivered a weekly television segment on NBC San Diego. He's a Southern California native who moved to San Diego in 2009 after earning an undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago. He majored in history with an emphasis on the US and Latin America. In college he was news editor of the student paper, the Chicago Maroon, and also spent time reporting from Capitol Hill and working with the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. He also likes to eat. A lot. And he likes to run to keep up his appetite. And he likes good music.
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