January 21, 1971 - Alfredo Beltrán Leyva
As a senior figure in the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, he operated within the broader Sinaloa trafficking network during a period of intense cartel violence in Mexico, when rivalries over smuggling routes produced some of the country's highest homicide rates. His arrest in 2008 is widely believed to have accelerated a bloody fracture between the Beltrán-Leyva and Sinaloa factions. The forfeiture judgment of over half a billion dollars issued at his U.S. sentencing offers a measure of the financial scale at which he operated.
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Alfredo Beltrán Leyva (born January 21, 1971), commonly referred to by his alias El Mochomo (The Desert Ant), is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords. Beltrán Leyva was responsible for smuggling multi-ton shipments of cocaine and methamphetamine to the United States from Mexico and South America between the 1990s and 2000s. He worked alongside his brothers Héctor, Carlos, and Arturo.
In January 2008, Beltrán Leyva was arrested by the Mexican Army Special Forces in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and imprisoned at the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, Mexico's maximum-security prison. He was extradited to the U.S. in November 2014 for drug trafficking charges. In April 2017, he was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit US$529 million to the U.S. government.
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