@ProPublica has learned that Mexico's former security minister, Genaro Garcia Luna, has been indicted on corruption charges in NY and arrested in Grapevine, Tx. Source says Garcia Luna had "all kinds of pictures with US officials in his unassuming one bedroom."
The arrest comes as part of a broad investigation into Mexican corruption, following the trial against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman. Garcia Luna was accused during the trial of taking cartel bribes as far back as 2005. nytimes.com/2018/11/20/nyr…
During his time as Mexico’s security minister, from 2006-2012, he worked closely with the DEA, and oversaw the SIU program, or Sensitive Investigative Units. Those units were notoriously leaky, as I reported for @ProPublica and @NatGeo in 2018. One leak triggered a massacre.
Story here: propublica.org/article/allend…
