Roberto Sandoval, left, a former governor of the Mexican state of Nayarit, appointed Edgar Veytia, right, to top law enforcement slots. The two are shown during a 2014 trip to the city of Santiago ...

Antonio Riano does not deny he shot Benjamin Becarra outside a Hamilton bar 20 years ago. But his defense attorneys this week will try to prove he did it in self defense. The murder trial for Riano, ...

Antonio Riano, a former Mexican police officer, was found guilty of murdering Benjamin Becerra in 2004. Riano fled to Mexico after the shooting but was extradited back to the U.S. in 2024. The ...

Edgar Veytia’s transgressions came while he was the top cop in Nayarit, a small Pacific Coast state that evolved from a sleepy backwater to one of Mexico’s most violent cartel battlegrounds. Veytia, ...