MEXICO CITY — Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have filed criminal charges against Ruben Rocha, the governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, along with several current and former government officials for their suspected connections to a powerful drug trafficking organization.
According to the Justice Department, Rocha and the other defendants allegedly worked together with high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel in a scheme to smuggle enormous amounts of illegal drugs across the border into the United States. In return, prosecutors say the officials provided political protection and accepted corrupt payments from the criminal organization.
