July 08, 2022 - 6:55am | By Ty Schonert
(Bismarck, ND) -- A multi-billion dollar judgment is being entered by a North Dakota federal judge against a Mexican drug cartel blamed for the deaths of nine people in 2019.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Clare Hochhalter awarded the families of the victims more than one-point-five billion dollars, which will be tripled under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act. The families sued the Juarez cartel after the victims were attacked just south of the U.S. border.
The husbands of two of the victims lived in North Dakota at the time of the killings.
