The son of the supreme leader of Mexican Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) will spend the rest of his life in a US prison. The ruling is because the US government puts extreme pressure on the Mexican government to force it to act against drug cartels.
On Friday, 34-year-old Reuben “Elmencito” Osegerar Gonzalez went before US District Judge Beryl A. Howell, a double citizen of America, Mexico, and US District Judge of the District of Columbia. Judge Howell handed out life sentences in prison for 30 years and ordered more than $6 billion in reparations. The sentence follows a few weeks of trials in September 2024, where several Top Drag Roads testified against him. Witnesses chose him as the second leader of CJNG, just below his father, Reuben Nemesio “El Mencho” Osegella Cervantes.
“The accused helped to build Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generasion into the streets and into a brutal terrorist group that committed horrific violence,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy said in a prepared statement released after the ruling hearing.
According to Information from the District of Columbia's US Lawyer's Office shows Elmenquito is directly responsible for moving TON amounts of drugs into the country, one of the first drug traffickers to begin moving fentanyl to the country.
Elmencito ordered a Mexican helicopter shooting in 2015, and he and his father ordered him to escape, Breitbart at the time reported. In 2015, Mexican authorities confirmed that three casualties and several other officials were injured after the attack on the helicopter. However, at least nine officers died in the crash, according to information from the US Lawyer's Office.
Federal authorities also claimed that, like his father, El Menquito is believed to be a bloodthirsty individual who personally killed some of his victims and ordered more than 100 murders as part of his criminal efforts.
Mexican authorities have won Elmenquito twice, once in 2014, once in 2015, twice in 2015. Every time he was released under a suspicious court decision. However, after his arrest in 2015, authorities were able to obtain additional warrants to detain him. The Mexican government ultimately handed him over in February 2020, and he has since taken federal custody.
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