{"id":6645,"date":"2026-11-08T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/mexican-judge-arrested-in-2-million-drug-bribe-case\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:05:50","slug":"mexican-judge-arrested-in-2-million-drug-bribe-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/mexican-judge-arrested-in-2-million-drug-bribe-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Judge Arrested in $2 Million Drug Bribe Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Federal prosecutors allege a Mexican judge accepted millions to release a Canadian defendant linked to an international cocaine-trafficking organization headed by former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 November 8, 2026 (STL.News) Mexican Judge \u2013 A Mexican federal judge has been arrested in Colombia following a major international law enforcement investigation into allegations that he accepted a $2 million bribe to release a Canadian defendant accused of helping operate a violent international cocaine-trafficking organization. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest on November 5, 2026, identifying the defendant as Luis Ben\u00edtez Alc\u00e1ntara, 49, of Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/mexican-judge-arrested-in-2-million-drug-bribe-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors allege a Mexican judge accepted millions to release a Canadian defendant linked to an international cocaine-trafficking organization headed by former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 November 8, 2026 (STL.News) Mexican Judge \u2013 A Mexican federal&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}