Eduardo Arellano Félix, former head of the Tijuana cartel, will be released from prison in the United States, where he was after pleading guilty to drug trafficking. (Free press photo: taken by @telediariomty) ”data-medium-file=” https://www.prensalibre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Arellano.jpg?quality=82&w=300 ″ data – large-file=»https://www.prensalibre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Arellano.jpg?quality=82&w=1024 ″ /> Eduardo Arellano Félix, former leader of the Tijuana cartel, will leave prison in the United States, where he was after pleading guilty to drug trafficking. (Photo for the free press: from @telediariomty) Mexican drug trafficker Eduardo Arellano Félix, former Tijuana cartel leader and sentenced in 2013 to 15 years in prison for money laundering and conspiracy to use profits illicit in the United States, will be released on August 18. Arellano Félix, known as the “doctor” for studying medicine, and who pleaded guilty to charges to avoid trial, is in a low-security federal prison in Allentown, Pa., According to Department of Human Rights data. prisons. (BOP). The Arellano Félix cartel monopolized drug trafficking routes for more than 20 years through Tijuana, in northwestern Mexico. The 64-year-old Mexican will not complete his sentence due to his extensive cooperation with US authorities, which began in May 2013, when he pleaded guilty. Read also: The women who loved Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán and who paid him in prison. Part of the deal with the government upon accepting his guilt provided that he had only been convicted of two of the seven counts for which he was extradited from Mexico in August 2012. Almost all court documents related to his case are sealed, but not those of his younger brother, Francisco Javier, alias “el Tigrillo”, also imprisoned in this country, according to the Univision network. These documents indicate that his brother has met dozens of times with agents of the Drug Control Administration (DEA) to offer them details on the functioning and structure of the remains of the Tijuana cartel, adds Univision. Read also: Relentless and controlling: the weak point of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán, imprisoned in the United States for drug trafficking The former leader of the group, Benjamín Arellano Félix, was extradited from Mexico in April 2011 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. jailed in federal court in San Diego in April 2012, while “el Tigrillo” is serving his life sentence after his capture in 2006 by the US Coast Guard.