U.S. Arrests Mexican Prosecutor in San Diego, Alleging Massive Drug Conspiracy

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A U.
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Border Patrol agent walks along a border fence with Mexico in San Diego in June 2016.
Roberto Sandoval Casta?eda, the governor of Nayarit state, said at a news conference that the arrest had taken him by surprise and that he knew few details.
The attorney general of the western Mexican state of Nayarit was in a federal jail in San Diego on Wednesday night on charges of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, heroin, marijuana and meth, according to court documents.
Gregory Bull / AP - fileVeytia was arraigned Tuesday in U.
S.
District Court in San Diego and was being held in the federal Bureau of Prisons facility there pending a hearing April 11 to move him to New York.
The FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Homeland Security would provide no further details except to confirm that they were involved in the investigation.