A former high-level agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain firearms and explosives for a Mexican drug cartel that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization, according to an indictment unsealed Friday in New York City.

Paul Campo, 61, of Oakton, Virginia, who retired from the DEA in 2016 after a 25-year career, is facing four federal conspiracy charges related to alleged narcoterrorism, terrorism, narcotics distribution, and money laundering. The same charges were lodged against his associate, Robert Sensi, 75, of Boca Raton, Florida.

The indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Manhattan accuses Campo and Sensi of making deals with a confidential source who posed

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