The sibling former leaders of Mexico’s notorious Zetas cartel were arraigned Friday in the United States on multiple charges, including drug trafficking, firearms possession, and money laundering, the U.S. Department of Justice said, CBS News reported.
Brothers Miguel and Omar Trevino Morales — known as “Z-40” and “Z-42” — led one of Mexico’s most feared organized crime gangs before its collapse. The two were among 29 drug suspects that Mexico expelled to the United States last month amid increasing pressure from President Donald Trump to curb drug smuggling.
The brothers appeared in a Washington, D.C., courtroom, facing charges of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise that involved multiple murder conspiracies, the Department of Justice said in a statement.
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