A reputed hitman for the Juarez drug cartel was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in Texas to federal charges that he was the brains behind the brutal slayings of three people connected to a United States Consulate in Mexico. reports the New York Times
Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez known as “El Diego was involved up to his neck in over 1,500 murders before his capture in Ciudad Juarez . He was part of an armed wing of the Jaurez drug cartel known as “La Linea”, the reputed allies of Shorty ‘El Chapo Guzman’s Sinaloa gang
