The brother of essentially the most needed drug supplier in Mexico, generally known as El Tony Montana, was arrested on Tuesday, in keeping with Mexican officers.
The military stated it captured Antonio Oseguera in possession of weapons in a suburb of Guadalajara, the capital of the western state of Jalisco. It stated he oversaw violent actions and logistics, and acquired weapons and laundered cash for the hyperviolent Jalisco New Era Cartel, usually recognized merely because the Jalisco Cartel.
In a press launch, the Mexican State Division says that the arrest of Oseguera, the brother of infamous cartel boss Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, was a “forceful blow” to the cartel.
Antonio Oseguera is on a Treasury Division sanctions checklist for his ties to the cartel. Nonetheless, it was not instantly clear if there’s a U.S. warrant of extradition request for him.
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Nemesio Oseguera, the chief of the Jalisco cartel.
(U.S. Treasury Dept)
The Jalisco Cartel is arguably Mexico’s strongest and violent. It made its repute with brazen assaults on Mexico’s safety forces, together with a 2020 assassination try on Mexico Metropolis’s police chief that wounded him and killed three different folks.
In 2015, cartel gunmen shot down a Mexican army helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade.
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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures throughout a information convention on the Nationwide Palace in Mexico Metropolis June 20, 2022.
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The cartel, which makes its cash primarily by trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl into the US, has ruthlessly expanded its territory past Jalisco, spurring bloodshed in states together with Guanajuato and Michoacan, in addition to reaching its tentacles into Mexico’s Caribbean seashore resorts in Quintana Roo.
The United States has supplied a $10 million reward for El Mencho’s seize, however the cartel has violently fought previous makes an attempt to arrest him.
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Troopers and police block off an space the place 35 our bodies lie beneath an overpass in Veracruz, Mexico.
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Authorities beforehand arrested El Mencho’s spouse, alleging she was concerned within the cartel’s unlawful actions and his daughter pleaded responsible in a U.S. court docket in 2020 to prices she carried out enterprise for the cartel.
Related Press contributed to this report