MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s army on Tuesday arrested the spouse of Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, greatest often called “El Mencho”, within the western Jalisco state, Mexican officers mentioned.
Rosalinda Gonzalez Valencia was detained within the municipality of Zapopan in Jalisco in a “a major blow to the monetary construction of organized crime within the state of Jalisco”, the protection ministry mentioned in a press release.
Gonzalez was detained for numerous crimes, with the proof pointing to her involvement in “the illicit monetary operation of an organized crime group,” the ministry added.
Oseguera, a former policeman, is the chief of the ultra-violent Jalisco New Technology Cartel (CJNG), essentially the most highly effective prison group in Mexico together with the Sinaloa Cartel.
Oseguera, who had a $10 million bounty positioned on his head by U.S. authorities in 2018, has masterminded the CJNG’s emergence as a prison empire spanning 5 continents and is one among few long-term cartel leaders to have evaded seize.
The CJNG has been blamed for smuggling huge portions of medicine, together with artificial opioid fentanyl, into america, the place overdose deaths largely linked to fentanyl spiked to greater than 93,000 in 2020, U.S. knowledge reveals.
Gonzalez was beforehand arrested in Might 2018 however was launched on bail just a few months later.
Oseguera’s daughter, Jessica Johanna Oseguera Gonzalez, was arrested in February 2020, and final Might pleaded responsible in a U.S. court docket to finishing up monetary dealings with Mexican companies recognized as narcotics traffickers.
(Reporting by Diego Ore and Raul Cortes; Writing by Drazen Jorgic; modifying by Cassandra Garrison and Jonathan Oatis)
