ALBUQUERQUE – A man extradited to the United States from Mexico in 2015 to stand trial in a 2008 killing for a drug cartel was sentenced Friday to life plus 15 years in prison.

A state District Court judge in Albuquerque sentenced Jaime Veleta for his October convictions for first-degree murder, kidnapping, tampering with evidence and conspiracy.

Authorities said Veleta fled to Mexico after kidnapping Danny Baca from his home, killing him and leaving his burned body on a desert mesa south of Albuquerque. Baca was shot 22 times.

Baca was supposed to deliver a carload of marijuana and cocaine from Mexico to locations in New Mexico for the Juarez cartel but he instead sold some of the drugs for himself.

Two other men pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Baca killing.