NEW YORK — Mexico’s former top cop used the police force he commanded to help a drug cartel do business, a federal jury in Brooklyn found Tuesday.
At a four-week trial in Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors accused Genaro Garcia Luna, 54, Mexico’s former secretary of public security, of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the notorious Sinaloa cartel — working for drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva and then his cousin, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who took over the cartel in a bloody civil war in the late 2000s.
Garcia Luna faces a minimum of 20 years in prison, and could be incarcerated for life.
