A Mexican federal court has granted the drug kingpin Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseca house arrest for the last ten years of his prison sentence.

Fonseca was given a forty year prison sentence for his responsibility in the torture and death of a DEA agent.

Eighty five year old, Fonseca, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, now awaits a ruling of an appeal filed by federal prosecutors requesting that he not be released.