Edgar Veytia
Edgar Veytia is a Mexican jurist. He has been the attorney general for the Mexican state of Nayarit since 2013.
On March 2, 2017, Veytia was charged with manufacturing, transporting and distributing heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana" from 2013 to February 2017 by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He was arrested on drug trafficking charges at the Cross Border Xpress on the Mexico–United States border on March 27, 2017. He was condemned to 20 years in prison and fined US $1,000,000 on September 26, 2019. His lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, who had previously defended Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán called Veytia "the perfect scapegoat," insisting that the real leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel are still free.
