United States Department of Justice Transfers 14 Mexican Nationals with Drug or Firearm Convictions to Mexico Under International Prisoner Transfer Treaty

The United States Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, with support from the Department’s Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), transferred 14 Mexican nationals on Friday to Mexican authorities pursuant to the International Prisoner Transfer Treaty between the United States and Mexico. Each individual was serving a federal sentence in the United States for drug-distribution offenses, illegal firearms offenses, or both.