The World - News from Sept. 29, 1989

Arturo Durazo, the former Mexico City police chief who was said to have made millions of dollars from extortion, smuggling and drug dealing, was sentenced to six years in prison on arms possession charges. Durazo, the police chief from 1976 to 1982, has already served five years but still faces sentencing on charges of fraud, smuggling and extortion. Durazo said he will appeal the ruling by Judge Jose Luis Garcia Vasco. The former chief was charged with illegally possessing 52 pistols. However, he said that as police chief he had a right to keep weapons. Durazo fled Mexico after his friend, President Jose Lopez Portillo, left office. FBI agents arrested him in 1984, and in 1986 he was extradited from Los Angeles.