EX-MEXICO DRUG CZAR GETS MORE JAIL

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The disgraced former head of Mexico's anti-drug
effort was hit with a new, 40-year sentence on drug charges on
Tuesday, the federal attorney general's office reported.

The agency said that a Mexico City judge sentenced Jesus Gutierrez
Rebollo to 40 years for promoting the transportation of cocaine, for
organized crime and for bribery.

He already was serving a nearly 32-year sentence on firearms charges.
The new penalty is added to the earlier one, so he faces 71 years in
prison, the attorney general's office said. He also is being
prosecuted on charges of abusing authority.

Gutierrez Rebollo, an army general, was arrested in February 1997 on
charges of taking bribes from the powerful Juarez drug smuggling
cartel to ease its operations while cracking down on those of its rivals.

A co-defendant, Horacio Montenegro Ortiz, was sentenced to 21 years in
prison on Tuesday for aggravated bribery. Montenegro is a former state
police chief in the western state of Jalisco, where Gutierrez Rebollo
was based in the army before taking over as national anti-drug chief.