Javier Valdez was an award-winning journalist and Agence France-Presse contributor (File)
Mexico City:
A second man accused of murdering Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, an AFP contributor, was convicted on Tuesday, the prosecutor s office announced.
Juan Francisco Picos Berrueta, known as El Quillo, was found guilty as a material co-perpetrator in the murder , the prosecution said in a statement.
He will be sentenced at a later date and faces up to 50 years in prison as he refused to plead guilty in exchange for a shorter term. He was tried as the main perpetrator in Valdez assassination.
Valdez, who was a co-founder of the Riodoce weekly newspaper and a prominent chronicler of Mexico s deadly drug war, was shot dead four years ago in Culiacan, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa.