Mexican drug cartel leaders have faced years of federal accusations of allegedly trafficking drugs domestically to sell to American citizens.
According to federal prosecutors, Jesus Ricardo Patron Sanchez, 39, was handed over from Mexico to face charges related to drug trafficking in New York City.
Sanchez went with his nicknames “Diobolical”, “Xmen” and “James Bond”, but is said to work as the head of the “cruelly violent” H-2 drug cartel.
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National Guard officers are monitoring the border walls of Mexico and the US as they deploy their borders on February 5, 2025 in Tijuana, Mexico. (Francisco Vega/Getty Images)
The H-2 drug lords were run from Nayarit and Sinaloa in Mexico and were born from the Sinaloa drug cartel.
The head of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) said last year that the US has faced a “most dangerous and fatal drug crisis” in history, with fentanyl and methamphetamine flowing across borders. The heart of this crisis. ”
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Prosecutors allege that under Sanchez's direction, H-2 transported cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine to the United States monthly from June 2013 to December 2016. , North Carolina, Ohio and Los Angeles, to trade “a lot” of drugs, officials said.
“As allegedly filed in the indictment and court application, Sanchez is one of the leading leaders of the H-2 drug smuggling organization, killing dangerous drugs on the streets of America and protecting their operations through murder and corruption. It was a cruel and violent multinational criminal organization,” said United John Durham.
According to prosecutors, Sanchez also instructed cartel members to kill members of other drug lords and additional rivals.
On July 13, 2022, the DEA Task Force badge will be on display next to the DEA Special Agent Badge at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. (Agnes Bun/AFP via Getty Images)
Sanchez is said to have worked to coordinate the money laundering business to send funds back from the US to Mexico to ensure that profits from sales have returned to Sanchez and other leaders' pockets.
The DEA estimates that H-2 distributes hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs to American citizens, earning millions of dollars while promising numerous murders between 2013 and 2017.
Sanchez, a Mexican resident, was arrested in Mexico in February 2019 on a preliminary arrest warrant issued by the United States, which was handed over to Brooklyn, New York six years later.
The US Marine Army patrols the US-Mexico border area seen from San Diego on February 7, 2025. (Carlos Moreno/Nur Photo via Getty Images)
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Last week, Sanchez was charged with accusations of leading an ongoing criminal enterprise, taking part in a massive drug distribution conspiracy and using one or more firearms in connection with a drug crime.
If convicted, Sanchez faces a mandatory life sentence in prison.
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“Our country is facing an unprecedented drug crisis,” said DEA special agent for Matthew Allen. “Rich drug lords like H-2 have been fueled by merciless, merciless desires.
