Ã‰dgar Valdés (Valdez) Villarreal

He was the lead prosecutor in the takedown of a significant component of Mexico's Beltran-Leyva cartel, including kingpin Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, aka “La Barbie.” He was also part of the prosecution team in the case of Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph. In addition to Horn, King & Spalding ...

In the midst of one of the biggest diversity uproars in Hollywood history, Legendary Studios has announced that blond-haired, blue-eyed English actor Charlie Hunnam would be playing real-life Mexican-American drug lord Edgar Valdez Villarreal. This, a Los Angeles Times headline reads, “is exactly ...

A former Texas high school football player whom authorities say rose from petty street dealer to the top ranks of a Mexican drug cartel was responsible for sending truckloads of cocaine across the border for distribution in the eastern US, prosecutors said. Edgar Valdez Villarreal, 42, is known as “La Barbie” ...

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a.k.a. La Barbie, a Texas-born drug smuggler, was extradited from Mexico last month. Photograph by Daniel Aguilar/Getty. In 2006, a Texan named Edgar Valdez Villarreal was at an inflection point in his drug-smuggling career. Valdez was thirty-three and known as La Barbie for his ...

An undated handout combo picture provided by the attorney general of Mexico on Thursday shows 13 men extradited to the U.S. for diverse crimes, among them Edgar Valdez Villarreal (bottom line, center), also known as 'La Barbie'; and 'El Coss,' Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez (middle row, second from ...

A couple of months ago, Don Pedro Rivera revealed that things seemed a little odd with Jenni Rivera days before her death during an interview with AztecaUS. He also told the network that the Rivera family was planning on reopening the case to investigate seven different institutions that were believed to ...

Mexico's federal police had harsh words Wednesday for an American-born accused drug lord who claimed he paid off top security officials. Edgar Valdez Villarreal has repeatedly "tried to blackmail authorities to obtain privileges," Mexico's Public Safety Secretariat said. "Held in a federal maximum security ...

Authorities in Mexico have detained the alleged Texas-born cartel leader Edgar Valdez Villarreal, also known as “La Barbie.” Villarreal, whose nickname owes to his light skin and hair, was reportedly apprehended in the Mexican state of Morelos, the Mexican news outlet Televisa reports. He is the former ...