Mexican judge arrested after U.S. charges him of accepting $2M bribe in case linked to former Olympian

Luis Benítez Alcántara, a Mexican federal judge, was arrested after U.S. authorities charged him with accepting a $2 million bribe. According to the charges, Alcántara allegedly took the payment to release the second-in-command of Ryan Wedding's cocaine trafficking organization. Wedding's operation was described by U.S. authorities as a billion-dollar enterprise.

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