The son-in-law of a former Mexican cartel leader has allowed her to coordinate violent plans to control prices for vehicle transport services at the US-Mexican border, the Associated Press reported.
Carlos Favian Martinez, a relative of the infamous Gulf Cartel boss Ociel Cardenas Gillen, pleaded guilty in the federal court of Houston to charges including price locking, terror and money laundering. Ta. According to AP. Martinez was among 10 people charged in November 2022 in connection with an operation to monopolize threats and violence to monopolise transportation coordination at the Los Indios port of Texas.
The Mexican drug lord's son-in-law pleaded guilty this week to a scheme that used violence and threats to correct prices and control used car markets across the US-Mexico border . https://t.co/ilw3ihdhcx
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Court records He also revealed Martinez's relationship with cartel leadership. During the July 2023 detention hearing, federal agents testified that Martinez had boasted about Matamoros' ties with Reinosa's criminal network. Martinez is married to the daughter of Cardenas Gillen. The former cartel leader established the Zeta n 1997 using members of the Mexican special forces. According to Britannica. They were paramilitary wings of the Gulf Cartel for a while before escaped after the capture of Gillen, and were responsible for some of Mexico's most violent crimes. (Related: “They're not going to go lightly”: Tom Homan warns why violence on the southern border could get worse.)
Martinez's judicial agreement includes an 11-year sentence with a May sentence set, the Associated Press reported. His lawyer, Kent A. Schaffer, said in a statement that the resolution would allow Martinez to return home early after being detained for two years.
Meanwhile, his stepfather was recently deported to Mexico, where he is accused of murder and illegal possession of a firearm, according to US immigration and customs enforcement agencies. press release. Gillen, once one of the most feared cartel leaders, was sentenced to 25 years in the United States in 2010 for drug and money laundering charges. He was also found guilty of threatening federal agents.
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