Mexican drug kingpin killed in battle
The Mexican drug kingpin known as ``Tony Tormenta,'' a top leader of the powerful Gulf cartel, was killed Friday in a ferocious gun battle with military forces in the northern border state that had long been his tightly controlled home turf.
A ``drug kingpin'' was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison for participating in a continuing criminal enterprise that brought large amounts of illegal drugs from Mexico into the Tulsa and Kansas City areas.