Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with an AM post from somewhere else in California. We're in this Golden State together. Right?
Drug kingpins come. Drug kingpins go. So Hollywood tells us. But it doesn't always end in a dramatic shootout, a la "Scarface."
The real cases often go out quietly in court. At least, in dramatic contrast to the bloodshed and terror that preceded the sentencing.
Hence the palpable disappointment you read as newspaper reporters set up a little court hearing later today in San Diego, wherein Benjamin Arellano Felix is expected to face sentencing for a fraction of what many in US law enforcement would like to sentence him for, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Arellano Felix (you may be "remember" his cartel as the one fictionalized in the Steven Soderbergh film “Traffic”) was captured by Mexican authorities in 2002 and extradited to the United States last year. Border beat reporter Amy Isackson broke it down for the California Report last May.