NEWSPAPER OWNER SENTENCED TO PRISON

MEXICO CITY - A Mexican court convicted businessman and former newspaper
owner Amado Cruz Anguiano Monday of laundering millions of dollars for the
Arellano Felix drug cartel, and sentenced him to 4 1/2 years in prison.

Cruz was accused of overseeing the financial operations of the
Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cocaine cartel.

His conviction marks one of the first against a leading member of that
group, whose leaders - the Aurellano Felix brothers - remain at large
despite warrants for their arrest, the government news agency Notimex
reported.