Brother of late Mexican cartel leader is sentenced to 22 years in prison for drug trafficking plot
Prosecutors said he helped run the Jalisco New Generation Cartel’s drug and money laundering operations and supervised meth labs.
- On Friday, Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, brother of slain Jalisco New Generation co-founder Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes known as "Mencho," was sentenced to more than 22 years in U.S. prison for drug trafficking.
- Oseguera Cervantes joined the Milenio Cartel in around 2002, later overseeing narcotics sales and supervising methamphetamine laboratories for the Jalisco New Generation cartel after reporting directly to his brother in 2010.
- The defendant pleaded guilty to distributing 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. In a letter to court, he wrote, "Deeply sorry for my actions and for the harm they caused."
- Administrator Terry Cole of the Drug Enforcement Administration said, "The sentencing of Oseguera Cervantes demonstrates that no cartel leader is beyond the reach of American justice." Assistant Attorney General Tysen Duva called it a message to criminals worldwide.
- This case forms part of a Trump administration initiative to eliminate powerful cartels, utilizing the Homeland Security Task Force to investigate transnational criminal organizations operating in the United States.
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A man whose brother led one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels was sentenced on Friday to more than 22 years in a U.S. prison for his involvement in a drug trafficking network that distributed cocaine and methamphetamine on U.S. streets.
Brother of Mexican cartel leader El Mencho sentenced to 22 years in prison for drug trafficking plot
A man whose brother led one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels was sentenced Friday to more than 22 years in U.S. prison for his part in a sprawling drug trafficking conspiracy that brought cocaine and methamphetamine to American streets.
Oseguera Cervantes, 67, also known as 'Tony Montana', had pleaded guilty last August to "conspiring to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine" and to "use, bearing and possession of weapons in support of the drug trafficking conspiracy."
The sentence against Antonio Oseguera, 67, arrives a week after the criminal's defense assured that it was impossible for him to survive 30 years in prison.
The head of the Mexican drug trafficking Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, brother of the late leader of the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación (CJNG) "El Mencho", was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison in the United States, informed the Department of Justice on Friday (13). Right arm: Mexico captures important ally and possible successor of drug trafficker 'El Mencho', killed in February Captured in Jalisco with drugs: Mexico holds suspect linke…
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