SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – The wife of a Sinaloa Cartel kingpin was sentenced in San Diego federal court today to 14 years in prison for her role in her husband’s organization’s drug trafficking and money laundering offenses.
Claudia Patricia Alvarez Hernandez, 38, described in a prosecution sentencing memorandum as a “trusted high-ranking member” of her husband’s organization, took on a supervisory role after her husband’s arrest and made efforts to secure the organization’s illegal assets, prosecutors said.
Her husband, Jorge Alberto Valenzuela-Valenzuela, took over a criminal organization that was previously run by his brother, Gabriel Valenzuela-Valenzuela, who was killed during a conflict with another Sinaloa Cartel leader, prosecutors said…