A former Tucson drug lord who just finished a 16-year federal prison term in the United States is in a Mexican state prison facing charges in connection with the killing of three men in the 1980s.
On Tuesday afternoon, Mexican authorities transferred Jaime Javier Figueroa Soto, 59, from El Paso to a state prison in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora.
There he faces charges related to the killing of two men in January 1987 and another man in May 1984, according to Eduardo Tirado, spokesman for the Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Sonora.
Figueroa Soto was released March 30 from a maximum security federal detention facility in Florence, Colo. and transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora for deportation proceedings. There, authorities learned that Mexican authorities wanted him for murder charges, according to a release from ICE.
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On Tuesday, federal officials flew him from Denver to El Paso, where they turned him over to the Mexican Immigration Service.
Figueroa Soto, who had four Tucson homes, was worth more than $150 million from marijuana trafficking and businesses in Sonora when 130 agents descended on his Scottsdale home and found him hiding in a closet in 1988.
