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Article: FORMER LEADER OF ARELLANO-FELIX DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON

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November 5, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:

Francisco Javier Arellano-Felix, the former leader of the deadly drug trafficking Arellano-Felix Organization (AFO), was sentenced to serve life in prison, the Department of Justice announced today.

At the sentencing hearing at federal court in San Diego today, U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns also ordered Arellano-Felix, 37, to forfeit $50 million and his interest in a yacht, the Dock Holiday.

Arellano-Felix's sentence follows his September 2007 guilty plea to operating a continuing criminal enterprise and conspiring to launder monetary instruments. According to court documents, since the 1980s, the ...

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