Alleged drug lord charged in Atlanta was an all-American kid

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, charged in Atlanta with smuggling millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the United States, is a former high school football star whose family is confounded by his life as a notorious Mexican drug kingpin.

There were no signs from his upbringing in Laredo, Texas, that Villareal, 37,  would choose a life of crime. He was from a close-knit family, raised in a tidy brick home with siblings who went to college and started businesses, The New York Times reports.