Mexican drug boss gets 7 years

Reuters  • 

McALLEN, Texas — A top figure with a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced to seven years in a U.S. prison yesterday after pleading guilty to immigration and weapons charges.

As part of a plea deal, Jose Luis Zuniga Hernandez, 44, admitted he was a leader of Mexico’s brutal Gulf Cartel, a drug gang that authorities say has smuggled tons of narcotics into the U.S.

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Zuniga Hernandez, known as “El Wicho,” in October 2011 near Brownsville, Texas.