Mexico Detains Former Top Drug Cop

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Mexico's former anti-drug czar has been detained in a widening corruption scandal that suggests a large percentage of top agents assigned to fight the drug trade here have instead been cooperating with cocaine cartels.

Noé Ramírez, who headed Mexico's elite anti-drug agency until August, accepted a bribe of $450,000 to leak information to a drug gang, Mexico's Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora alleged on Friday. Mr. Ramírez, who since August has been Mexico's acting envoy to the United Nations office for drug control in Vienna, was detained on Thursday and charged with participating in organized crime. It wasn't possible to reach him for comment.