El Menchito Tried To Bribe Mexican Policeman So His Father Could Keep His Freedom

El Menchito also explains how he got involved in fuel theft, overseeing methamphetamine labs, and how he became involved in the drug trafficking business.

The United States claims that Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, El Menchito, son of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the top leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), operated so that his father could maintain his freedom by attempting to bribe a federal police officer who allegedly had enough information to arrest him.

In a statement released Wednesday, El Menchito also explains how he became involved in drug trafficking, overseeing methamphetamine laboratories, and that he ordered the murder of more than 100 people and personally shot and killed another.

According to the document consulted by MILENIO, it was 2012 when the federal government was targeting El Mencho.

Several of his operators had fallen, such as the brothers Ramon, Rafael and Jesus Alvarez Ayala. The media reported that in August, the Navy had been able to detain the cartel leader, but he was released on orders from the Jalisco state government.

“Defendant agrees that in approximately 2012 he attempted to bribe a Mexican federal police officer to obtain a copy of evidence of El Mencho’s criminal conduct from Mexican authorities.

“Defendant agrees that he attempted to obtain this information to help El Mencho evade capture so that he could lead the CJNG,” reads the statement of facts that El Menchito signed on April 6, 2023, as part of a collaboration agreement that he eventually withdrew from.

On July 9, the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a request to admit as material to the prosecution and counter-reply the plea agreement and statement of facts that Oseguera González signed after negotiating with U.S. authorities in order to avoid life imprisonment.

On April 11, however, Arturo Hernandez, a new lawyer sent by El Menchito’s family, appeared before the District Court for the District of Columbia to claim that his client did not agree to the plea bargain, and would probably withdraw.

He did so, although he never said his statement of facts was false. Now, the prosecution has revived that plea agreement, seeking to prove that El Menchito is guilty of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and methamphetamine, and of possessing firearms for the purpose of drug trafficking.

In the attached statement, also signed by Oseguera Gonzalez, he admits that from 2007 to 2017 he conspired to traffic cocaine and methamphetamine in Mexico, the United States and other countries.

“The defendant was a leader of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization known as the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). The CJNG’s top leader was and is the defendant’s father, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as El Mencho.

“The CJNG is a close ally of the Los Cuinis organization, led by the defendant’s uncles,” the document adds.

It also acknowledges that with Los Cuinis, the financial arm of the CJNG, tens of thousands of kilos of methamphetamine were distributed and that they used extreme violence to expand throughout Mexico.

“The defendant agrees that between approximately 2008 and 2011, he routinely visited methamphetamine laboratories in Jalisco, Mexico, which were controlled by his father, for the purpose of overseeing operations.

“Approximately 2,800 kilograms of methamphetamine produced in the labs that the defendant helped supervise were transported to the United States,” admitted El Menchito.

Regarding how the cartel was financed, Oseguera Gonzalez explained that between 2011 and 2012 he participated in the theft of gasoline and diesel from pipelines in Mexico, and that the money from fuel sales was used to pay hitmen and buy weapons, material for methamphetamine production, stolen cars to transport drugs, and to hire cartel personnel.

According to the statement, between 2011 and 2014, El Menchito gave orders to the heads of the Guadalajara plaza to move drugs and generate violence. He had around 300 people under his command. In that period, he produced 15,000 kilos of methamphetamine in the laboratories he supervised.

Oseguera Gonzalez always carried a pistol and a rifle with him. Usually at least an AR15 or an AK47. During his violent reign, he ordered at least 100 people killed: rivals, individuals who failed to deliver drugs, and people found to be collaborators with the authorities.

In addition, in 2008, he admitted to personally shooting one person to death. He also admitted to kidnapping a man and 12 of his workers for selling drugs in El Mencho’s territory without his permission.

Finally, the agreement details that El Menchito normally communicated by Blackberry. He used the code names Ice Man, Forrest Gump and Billy the Kid. This is how he coordinated the shipment of cocaine and the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the United States to Mexico.

MILENIO has learned that among the evidence against him are conversations with Abigael González Valencia, El Cuini, El Menchito’s uncle and leader of the Cuinis, about cocaine trafficking.

El Menchito is scheduled to sit in the defendants’ chair to face his trial in early September.

Source: Milenio