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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 17 > Arrest outlines cartels’ reach

Arrest outlines cartels’ reach

Former U.S. anti-drug official accused of working with Mexican drug lords

By Sebastian Rotella / The Bulletin
September 17, 2009

WASHINGTON — As a high-ranking U.S. anti-drug official, Richard Padilla Cramer held frontline posts in the war on Mexico’s murderous cartels. He led an office of two-dozen agents in Arizona and was the attache for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Guadalajara, Mexico.

While in Mexico,....

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