A Huntington Beach man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for working with a concert promoter in Mexico with ties to drug cartels.

José Ángel Del Villar, 45, the CEO of Del Records and its related talent agency Del Entertainment Inc., was sentenced Friday to a jail term and fined $2 million, the United States Department of Justice said in a news release.

He and his company were convicted in March on 10 counts of violating the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act and an additional count of conspiracy to transact in property of specially designated narcotics traffickers in violation of the Kingpin Act.

The company was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $1.8 million.

Del Villar and Del Entertainment worked with Jesús Pérez Alvear, aka “Chucho,” of Guadalajara,

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