[32][33] Other reporting stated the U.S authorities had alerted the Mexican authorities based on their surveillance of the subject's girlfriend who was importing meth at Gulfport, Mississippi. Somewhere deep in Mexico's remote wilderness, the worlds most dangerous and wanted drug lord is hiding. On Oct. 16, 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, standing next to a large "Wanted" poster of El Mencho, announced a $10 million reward for his capture and unveiled detailed indictments against him and CJNG. THE Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is in a bloodthirsty power grab across South America as experts warn they are creating an empire even bigger that El Chapo's. CJNG is a 13 billion drug empire led by Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes which has now consolidated power across almost the whole of Mexico. Theyre kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place right now with the murders going up, the drug trafficking going up, traffickers gaining more money to be able to corrupt more people and to have international influence and contacts, Donahue said. Through corruption and intimidation, CJNG has thrived, even as it found additional ways to make money. Mexicos Jalisco New Generation Cartel blazes a bloody trail in rise to power. And, in a 2019 case pending in federal court,an accused cartel lieutenantconnected to Chicago drug trafficking settled into a $2 million Nashville condo. At the site of the assassination attempt against Garca Harfuch in Mexico Citys tony Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood, the police recovered Barrett semiautomatic rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. In America,ElMenchoexpectscartel members and associates to avoid violence, hidewealth anddisguise their CJNG affiliations, agents say. [15] He dropped out of primary school in fifth grade to work in the fields. The day the operation was inaugurated, intelligence reports stated that El Mencho was in Tonaya, which prompted an offensive to apprehend him. Flames leftMoralesdisabled and disfigured. [95], In November 2021, Rosalinda, known as "La Jefa," was arrested in Jalisco's Zapopan municipality. [61] Police are investigating whether El Mencho gave the order to execute him, but no charges have been filed. His second security circle is much larger in size and serves as a rearguard to notify El Mencho's inner circle of suspicious activity and ambush potential parties that attempt to get close to him. I've implanted you a fee which you must pay. As before, all of the U.S.-based assets of these businesses were frozen, and U.S. citizens were prohibited from doing business with them. To build their lucrativedrug networks in the U.S., CJNG bosses mandated discretion to dodge police attention. The populist leader campaigned under the slogan Abrazos, no balazos Hugs, not Bullets suggesting that he would not launch a military offensive to curb the Jalisco cartels influence. The move comes at a time when that criminal organization continues to be responsible for a large part of the violence in Mexico. It is known for its aggressive use of violence and its public relations campaigns. It hauled inmore than 3 kilos of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid so potent that an amount as small as Abraham Lincoln's cheek on a pennycan be fatal. El Cholo afterwards retaliated by co-founding a new cartel called the Nueva Plaza Cartel. [80], Rosalinda Gonzlez Valencia is the wife of El Mencho. "If an agent saw him, we couldnt say, 'Hey, were gonna grab El Mencho right now, take him and put him into custody.' Throughout 2019, reporters analyzed thousands of court records of more than 100 criminal drug cases around the country and talked to more than 150 federal drug agents, police officers, defense attorneys and prosecutors. Americans who may not know of CJNG today should take note, Dodds said. [3], Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was born in July 1964 or 1966 in the rural community of Culotitln in Aguililla, Michoacn, Mexico. [10][17] To strengthen his relationship with the Milenio Cartel, El Mencho married one of the clan leader's sisters, Rosalinda Gonzlez Valencia. [27] On an international scale, the CJNG is mainly focused on trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine. The prosecution insisted that both siblings were working together. . In September 2011, the emerging cartel left 35 corpses on a street in the heart of. Treasury Department officials stood with Sessions and announced more sanctions on businesses linked to CJNG and its affiliate, Los Cuinis. Those who tried to run were tortured, killed and sometimescannibalizedby fellow recruits in what U.S. federal agents describe as a disturbing riteof passage. Make no mistake, Taylor said. A cartel member even worked at Kentucky's famed Calumet Farm, home to eight Kentucky Derby and three Triple Crown winners. In court, El Mencho insisted that he was innocent. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has killed judges, congressmen, dozens of police officers and thousands of civilians. Rubn "Nemesio" Oseguera Cervantes is the leader of Crtel Jalisco Nueva Generacin, better known as CJNG. In the absence of conclusive testimony from suspected attackers, the question of why the cartel would attempt such a high-profile killing remains unanswered. In eightmonths, Sosas crew laundered about $1million for CJNG,stacking drugs and cash behind a wall of their trailer. [14], In the Milenio Cartel, El Mencho started as a member of the assassin squad that protected the drug lord Armando Valencia Cornelio (alias "El Maradona"). His name was Pablo Oseguera. [88] He had served as the CJNG's lead financier. U.S. officials have documented the cartels strategy of using extreme violence to overwhelm local populations. Agents say Macias didn'tinvolveCalumet in his drug crimes. Caller type: Scammer/Fraudster "my name is PABLO OSEGUERA member carte Jalisco New Generation and pimp of the domestic sexual service house I've been calling you cause you've been speaking to one of my girls which offered you her service and you only made her lose her time. CJNG's Kentucky strategy has been repeated in town after town across America, in places better known for cheese, cows and corn. He was deported to Mexico several months later, but re-entered the U.S. and resettled in San Francisco. The teenager sneaked into the U.S. and triedto build a customer base as a street-level dealer. Eleven months after the Lexington raid, a SWAT team crept in the darkness and blasted off the front door of the tire shop owner's house in Louisville. [99][100] In 2022, Insight Crime reported that El Mencho had in fact not been seen for years amid concerns about his poor health. Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete said at a. CJNG's plan tomove intosmall-town America and cashin on the country's addiction crisis played out in Lexington, Kentucky. As the security forces moved to the area where El Mencho was allegedly hiding, a gunfight broke out between law enforcement officials and gunmen of the CJNG. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Spanish: Crtel de Jalisco Nueva Generacin) or CJNG, formerly known as Los Mata Zetas, is a Mexican criminal group based in Jalisco which is headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho"), one of the world's most-wanted drug lords. That attack appears to have been carried out by the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel against the Jalisco cartel. Oseguera Gonzalez pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of engaging in transactions with entities designated as having supported her father's criminal organization. El Mencho was deported in 1997and then traveled to Tijuana. All rights reserved. Warren traveled to six cities in the U.S. and reviewed thousands of documents in more than 100 court cases and sought prison interviews with more than two dozen cartel members and associates. One of the most sought after drug lords in the world, and. The DEA last year carried out a roundup of Jalisco cartel operatives and traffickers in the United States, making more than 600 arrests. . Yet, no sooner had authorities busted Kentucky's CJNG ringthan the cartel replaced Macias, sending in another team. El Mencho is allegedly responsible for coordinating global drug trafficking operations. Notorious drug boss Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera, leader of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG), appears to be asking Mexico's criminal syndicates to leave priests, doctors,. A nine-month Courier Journal investigation reveals how CJNG's reach hasspread across the U.S. in the past five years, overwhelming cities and small towns with massive amounts of drugs. [64] The bounty derives from a new arrest warrant issued against him for his alleged participation in masterminding the kidnapping and murder of two agents of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), a branch of the PGR, in February 2018. The cartel controls the movement of more than a third of all drugs consumed in the United States, U.S. officials say, and has expanded into Europe and Asia. Unlike the drug cartels of Pablo Escobars Colombia, Mexican drug trafficking organizations have rarely targeted top officials, in part to avoid a clash with the state and in part because they have found bribery a more useful tool than assassination. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He briefly worked as a police officer in Tomatln, a small town in Jalisco, learningthe inner workings of law enforcement,said DEA Special Agent Kyle Mori, who is heading the U.S. criminal investigationagainstEl Mencho fromLos Angeles. One byproduct of the cartels recruitment campaign was that teenage drug dealers and petty thieves suddenly found themselves working as transnational criminals. [43] That same day, Miguel ngel Caicedo Vargas, the police chief of Zacoalco de Torres, was killed by CJNG hitmen. Then the group sent three dozen men armed with military-grade weapons into one of the countrys most exclusive neighborhoods, authorities say, to kill the capitals top security official. Through a wiretap conversation, the police overheard El Mencho warning his brother to never do business with them again since they were undercover cops. Julio Alex Diaz. [6], On 18 December 2017, seventeen year-old YouTube star Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales, known as "El Pirata de Culiacn" (English: The Pirate from Culiacn), was gunned down in a bar in Jalisco by a group of four men armed with rifles, shortly after Lagunas Rosales published videotaped insults towards El Mencho. The organization developed allegiances with smaller groups, sometimes solidified through marriages. I've implanted you a fee which you must pay. "But its a little different when you go to Boise, Idaho, and other small towns where they dont have the resources to really focus on an international cartel.". American daughter of Mexico's fugitive cartel leader facing up to 30 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to doing business with his Jalisco New Generation Cartel After his escape, the U.S. took its manhunt public. [71] According to the report, the diversity of these businesses showed that the CJNG was successful at penetrating the economy. December 20, 2022. They have three children: Jessica Johana, Laisha, and Rubn Oseguera Gonzlez (alias "El Menchito). Are you on Telegram? CJNG's rapid rise to power and its expansion havestunned and stymied Americas top drug fighters.