Aurelio Cano Flores

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Mexican imprisoned drug trafficker and former high-ranking leader of the Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug trafficking organization. Commonly referred to by his aliases Yankee and/or Yeyo, he is also a former member of the Federal Judicial Police in Tamaulipas. Cano Flores became a drug trafficker in 2001 while still serving as a police officer. His role in Mexican law enforcement and his ties with the Gulf Cartel allowed him to recruit several other policemen into the criminal organization's ranks. As a high-ranking leader, Cano Flores served as the regional boss of the Gulf Cartel in Los Guerra, a town in the municipality of Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas. He was also a leader in Camargo, Tamaulipas, where he coordinated heroin, cocaine, and marijuana shipments to the United States. In 2010 he was named in a U.S. federal indictment with 19 other high-ranking drug lords of La Compañía (The Company), a name used to describe the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas as a conglomerate. He was arrested by the Mexican federal police on June 2009 and extradited to the United States while pending drug trafficking charges on 19 August 2011. Cano Flores was later sentenced to 35 years in prison and ordered to forfeit US$15 billion on 13 May 2013, making him the "highest ranking Gulf Cartel member to be convicted by a U.S. jury in the past 15 years." Link to Wikipedia biography