Mexican Police Official Gets 10 Years In Prison

 

Borderland Beat reported on 30 Dec 11 that former Federal Police regional security coordinator Javier Herrera Valles was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Herrera Valles used his position to assist Sinaloa drug cartel operations. He received 70,000 dollars a month for his services.

Javier was also reported to have his own illegal operations in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/12/ex-police-chief-gets-10-years-for.html

Comment and some Background Information: Collusion between members of the Federal Police of Mexico and the drug cartels is not new. The seeds to the current Mexican Drug War were sown in the 70s...YES, I said that right...the 1970s.

The relationship between narcos and Mexican authorities existed since at least the 70s when Colombian cartels started figuring ways to use Mexico as a transit point for their product into the US. Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, a former Sinaloa Governor bodyguard, and trained Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent, prostituted his relationships (access to corrupt police and legal officials) and skills to Colombian Drug Lords.

Gallardo was the first Mexican Narco leader. He founded the Guadalajara cartel. 1989, Gallardo was arrested for his direct involvement in the early 1985 murder of a former US Marine/DEA Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.  While in prison, Gallardo’s Guadalajara cartel broke into the now known Tijuana and Sinaloa Cartels.