March 29 (UPI) -- Federal agents arrested the attorney general for the Mexican state of Nayarit at the U.S. border in San Diego, saying he has been a drug kingpin worth $250 million who conspired to smuggle and sell narcotics in the United States.
Egdar Veytia, 46, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents upon trying to enter the country. An indictment filed March 2 in federal district court in Brooklyn and unsealed Tuesday charged him with masterminding the production and smuggling of large amounts of illegal drugs into the United States dating back to 2013, when he became attorney general of the Pacific Coast state, which is home to the resort city Puerto Vallarta, where he is the top law enforcement official.