El Menchito Is Convicted Of Drug Trafficking Thanks To His Fondness For Guns

Two weeks after Ruben Oseguera González aka El Menchito was declared guilty in the United States for drug trafficking. Our colleague Ángel Hernández exposes one of the key pieces that the US prosecution used to prove the guilt of the son of the maximum leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, hs fondness for weapons. 

El Menchito was a great shooter and loved weapons. According to several US government witnesses Rubén Oseguera González carried everywhere a .38 Super pistol and camouflaged M-16 rifle with an integrated grenade launcher. Herminio Gómez, former police chief of Villa Purificación, Jalisco, confessed to having provided security to El Menchito, claimed to have seen his skills when he practiced in a vacant lot on his property. 

He added that between him and his sicarios he was the only one who could hit targets at distances of up to 500 meters. And that he was perfectly trained to use grenade launchers. According to him and other witnesses, along with intercepted communications, the Mexican national was also a weapons enthusiast. 

Not only did he obtain several military-grade weapons from traffickers who bought them in the United States. But also from close friends who wanted to get on his good side. Like the chemist who made synthetic drugs for him, who also gave him an AK-47 rifle. 

His passion for guns was one of the key pieces that the prosecution exploited to show that Menchito used them in the drug manufacturing and distribution business as second in command of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. 

Additionally, authorities also seized the pistol and rifle with which he dared to threaten security forces when he was arrested in 2015. Menchito was found guilty by a jury last September in Washington. And his sentence, which could range from 40 years to life imprisonment, is currently pending.

Source: Milenio