SAN DIEGO ( Border Report ) — Mexican drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez, aka “La Tuta,” asked a judge this week to stop his extradition to the United States.
Gómez Martínez is currently serving time in a Mexican prison.
Cartel member who dissolved hundreds of cadavers in acid gets more prison time
He first rose to fame while teaching in the state of Michoacán when he organized a group of community members to stand up to Los Zetas, an ultra-violent cartel in the region that was extorting residents and running drugs through the area.
In the process, prosecutors say the former school teacher became a criminal himself while starting his own cartel known as the Knights of Templar…