Jury selection to begin in US trial for Mexico's former top cop
Garcia Luna, the former Mexican secretary of public security, was arrested in Dallas in 2019 and charged with narcotics trafficking conspiracy. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court in the corruption trial of Genaro Garcia Luna, once head of the Mexican equivalent of the FBI, who has been accused by the United States of accepting million-dollar bribes from the cartel once controlled by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Garcia Luna, the former Mexican secretary of public security, was arrested in Dallas in 2019 and charged with narcotics trafficking conspiracy for assisting the Sinaloa cartel. The charges resulted from the trial of El Chapo when a witness testified he had given Garcia Luna briefcases of cash. Genaro Garcia Luna at the Mexican Congress in Mexico City on Nov. 30, 2006. Gustavo Graf/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE MORE: Ovidio Guzman, son of El Chapo and alleged major fentanyl trafficker, arrested in Mexico "As alleged, for nea...