Overview

• Edgar Herrera Pardo pleaded guilty to heroin and methamphetamine trafficking and admitted ordering the 2018 killing of a Tijuana police officer.
• Prosecutors say he led a Los Cabos chat in which members discussed more than 100 murders and coordinated “narco banners” to intimidate rivals.
• Herrera Pardo was indicted in 2019, spent six years in custody in Mexico and the U.S., and faces deportation after completing his sentence.
• Federal filings accuse Los Cabos enforcers of killing three San Diego–area teenagers and at least three police officers to secure CJNG’s drug smuggling routes.
• The sentencing falls under Operation Take Back America following CJNG’s designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization earlier this year.