Whack-a-mole: Mexico’s ‘King of Heroin’ pleads guilty

Is anyone bothering to count the number of "moles whacked" or "drug kings" dethroned anymore? Probably the DEA in the Department of Justice, since they can't think of any other strategy.

Mexico’s ‘King of Heroin’ pleads guilty - The Boston Globe: "The man dubbed Mexico’s “King of Heroin,’’ who was pocketing up to $260,000 a week in California drug sales, pleaded guilty yesterday in a Ventura County courtroom to conspiring to sell narcotics.

Jose Antonio Medina Arreguin, also known as Don Pepe, faces up to 24 years in prison when he’s sentenced April 13, prosecutor David Russell said. When Arreguin was arrested last year, investigators said the 36-year-old resident of Apatzingan, Mexico, was the leader of an elaborate, multimillion-dollar smuggling operation that once moved an estimated 440 pounds of heroin a month into Oxnard, Downey, Los Angeles, Long Beach, and San Jose.

The news media in Mexico dubbed him King of Heroin."