Mexican cartel leader, 34, gets 7 life terms in US prison
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Prosecutors in Texas say an assassin and gun runner for Mexico's violent Zetas drug cartel must serve seven consecutive life terms in a U.S. prison.
Marciano "Chano" Millan (MEE'-yahn) Vasquez was sentenced Wednesday in San Antonio. A jury last July convicted Millan of 10 drug and weapons-related counts, including killing while engaged in drug trafficking.
Investigators say the 34-year-old Millan, jailed since his 2015 arrest in Texas, was a regional leader of the cartel in Piedras Negras, Mexico.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Witnesses testified Millan worked with other cartel leaders to bribe politicians and kill dozens of people to protect drug smuggling.
Testimony indicated Millan in 2013 used an ax to dismember a girl and burned her body in front of her parents — to punish her father — then ordered the parents killed.