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Prosecutors allege Ryan Wedding directed the hit to stop a federal witness from testifying about his transnational drug empire. Law enforcement calls him one of the most dangerous fugitives in the hemisphere.

Mental “competency” evaluations have become a chokepoint in the prosecution, granting psychiatrists de facto power to halt justice indefinitely.

The 75-year-old co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom—admitting to a murderous reign of trafficking, corruption and suffering that stretched across decades.

While organized from prisons, these gangs cause harm that extends everywhere—with one gang trafficking enough fentanyl to kill everyone in Seattle-Tacoma, plus half a million more.