The man responsible for establishing a reign of terror in parts of Mexico's northern border region has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to multiple drug trafficking and money laundering charges. He faces the possibility of life in prison. Not only is the cartel boss responsible for ordering the enforced disappearances of hundreds of people and setting up secret graveyards in northern Mexico, but his gunmen were directly involved in a brazen attack on the US consulate building in Nuevo Laredo. I am doing it.
This week, Juan Gerardo “El Huevo” Trevino Chavez appeared before a federal judge in San Antonio and pleaded guilty to 15 federal charges brought against him. The charges include various drug trafficking conspiracy charges, weapons charges, money laundering charges, and involvement of a minor in a criminal enterprise, according to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas. It has been revealed that the charges include the use of third parties.
As Breitbart Texas reported, El Webo was the head of the Cartel del Norest (CDN), a Los Zetas faction based in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. He was a US citizen who inherited his Mexican family's criminal empire and worked for his cousins Miguel Ángel (Z-40) Trevino and Oma (Z-42) Trevino. They are the leaders of Los Zetas and are currently in a Mexican prison fighting to be extradited. Texas. Mexican authorities first arrested El Huevo in March 2022. Because he is a U.S. citizen, Mexican authorities deported El Huevo soon after his arrest.
In March 2022, while the Mexican military was arresting El Huevo, El Huevo's armed group, known as the “Hell's Troop” or “Tropa del Infierno,” attacked the U.S. Consulate General in Nuevo and Mexican police. launched a series of coordinated attacks firing on buildings. Breitbart, a newspaper in Laredo, Texas, reported at the time.
El Huebo is also directly responsible for the 2019 terrorist attack on residents of Vila Union, Coahuila. As reported by Breitbart Texas, hundreds of CDN gunmen in dozens of vehicles entered a small rural community and shot up the town's city hall and plaza as a way to terrorize local residents. I started doing it. Armed groups clashed with authorities in a series of large-scale gun battles that left dozens dead. After the attack, the then-governor of Coahuila called the attack terrorist in nature, as a criminal organization was trying to spread panic among the local population.
The man known as El Huebo was also directly responsible for ordering hundreds of kidnappings across northern Mexico, where gunmen later killed and disposed of the victims' bodies. As Breitbart Texas reported, Mexican authorities are doing little to stop these enforced disappearances, as criminal organizations continue to operate with virtual impunity in most parts of the country. do not have.
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