One of many founders of a robust Mexican cartel will spend the remainder of his life in federal jail after a court docket imposed a life sentence plus 30 years on main drug trafficking and firearms prices. He should additionally forfeit greater than $6 billion in illicit proceeds.
U.S.-Mexican twin nationwide and co-founder of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, 34-year-old Ruben Oseguera-Gonzalez, obtained the sentence within the District of Columbia, the U.S. Division of Justice mentioned in a press release Friday.
Prosecutors confirmed that he oversaw the importation of multi-ton shipments of unlawful medication into the U.S. and directed violent acts on behalf of the cartel.
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In response to officers, he personally killed 5 people who owed him cash, and he shot each a rival cartel member and a subordinate. Investigators discovered that he carried firearms, together with a rifle and grenade launcher bearing his nickname, which he used to threaten Mexican legislation enforcement throughout his arrest.
Courtroom paperwork additionally famous that he ordered the homicide of greater than 100 individuals, and he participated in a few of these killings himself.
“This defendant helped construct Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion right into a brutal terrorist group that pumps poison onto our streets and commits horrific acts of violence,” mentioned Lawyer Common Pamela Bondi.
Oseguera-Gonzalez co-founded the cartel together with his father, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also called El Mencho, who stays a fugitive.
Oseguera-Gonzalez’s position included trafficking greater than 50 metric tons of cocaine and overseeing laboratories that produced no less than 1,000 metric tons of methamphetamine in Mexico. Courtroom filings revealed that he contributed to the early phases of a fentanyl operation and as soon as pledged to “do it huge” by creating counterfeit oxycontin tablets laced with fentanyl.
Oseguera-Gonzalez’s management within the CJNG spanned almost seven years in Mexico. Throughout this era, he reportedly offered weapons and orchestrated brutal actions to take care of cartel operations.
He directed a 2015 assault on a Mexican army helicopter. The helicopter was shot down whereas pursuing Oseguera-Gonzalez and his father, resulting in the loss of life of no less than 9 Mexican service members and completely disfiguring no less than one different.
The Division of Justice confirmed that Oseguera-Gonzalez’s intent was to evade seize, and the incident delayed efforts by Mexican authorities to apprehend him.
Oseguera-Gonzalez operated on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border. The cartel’s geographic attain included a number of Mexican states, in addition to shipments that infiltrated American markets.
Final month, a binational enforcement operation between Mexico and the U.S. disrupted a cartel-linked smuggling community that allegedly kidnapped migrants and extorted their households. Mexican authorities arrested two suspects, recognized as Brian Alan Torres Gonzalez and Soledad Morales Nava, who will face prosecution in Mexico with proof from U.S. officers.
Officers imagine it not solely moved adults but in addition youngsters from Central America into El Paso, Texas, allegedly demanding fee earlier than finishing the migrants’ entry into the U.S.
