{"id":6669,"date":"2026-11-08T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/mexican-judge-arrested-in-2-million-bribery-case\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:50:03","slug":"mexican-judge-arrested-in-2-million-bribery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/mexican-judge-arrested-in-2-million-bribery-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Judge Arrested in $2 Million Bribery Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Federal prosecutors allege a Mexican judge accepted millions of dollars to release a Canadian drug-trafficking suspect connected to former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. The international investigation now involves authorities in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Canada. LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 November 8, 2026 (STL.News) A Mexican federal judge has been arrested in Colombia following a United States investigation into allegations that he accepted a $2 million bribe to authorize the release of a Canadian national accused of participating in a major international cocaine-trafficking organization. The U.S. Department of Justice announced November 5 that Luis Ben\u00edtez Alc\u00e1ntara, 49, of<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/mexican-judge-arrested-in-2-million-bribery-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 of dollars to release a Canadian drug-trafficking suspect connected to former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. The international investigation now involves authorities in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Canada. LOS ANGELES, CA&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","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\/6669","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=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6671,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}