Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roberto Sandoval, left, a former governor of the Mexican state of Nayarit, appointed Edgar Veytia, right, to top law enforcement ...

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A worker cleans outside the Nayarit State attorney general's headquarters in Tepic, Mexico, in 2017. (César Rodríguez / Bloomberg via Getty Images) By his own admission, the Mexican lawman known as El ...

Edgar Veytia’s transgressions came while he was the top cop in Nayarit, a small Pacific Coast state that evolved from a sleepy backwater to one of Mexico’s most violent cartel battlegrounds. Veytia, ...