California family’s anti-terrorism suit trods new ground in targeting Sinaloa cartel for DEA agent’s killing

When the family of a slain U.S. federal agent sued the Sinaloa cartel and three infamous drug traffickers this month, it was believed to be the first Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuit ever filed in the San Diego region, as well as the first such lawsuit in the nation targeting a Mexican drug-trafficking organization.

An attorney for the family of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent killed in 1985 in Mexico, said the unprecedented lawsuit had been in the works for more than a year...