LOS ANGELES — A Mexico City cartel boss who was shot dead by Mexican federal agents last week, and a fugitive Los Angeles gang member living in Mexico, used corrupt officials and leaked law enforcement information to help former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding move drugs and evade capture, American prosecutors allege in two indictments announced Tuesday.
The cases add two more alleged insiders to the picture of Mexican protection around Wedding. They follow the arrest of a Mexican federal judge accused of taking a $2-million cash bribe to free Wedding’s second-in-command, as The Bureau reported last week.
The slain man, Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado, 42, known as “El General,” is accused by Mexican authorities of ordering the 2024 killing of a senior Mexico City police commander, Milton Morales Figueroa. Mexico’s security secretary, Omar García Harfuch, announced Vazquez’s death himself and paid tribute to Morales.
García Harfuch said “El General” was under investigation for kidnapping, extortion, homicide, property dispossession, money laundering, fuel theft and drug trafficking to the United States and Canada.