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American daughter of drug lord, who heads Mexico’s most powerful cartel, to face trial in December
The American-born daughter of a fugitive Mexican drug lord wanted by the United States will be facing trial in Washington, D..C. this winter.
A document from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia notes that Jessica Oseguera’s trial is set to begin December 14.
Oseguera, whose father Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera is the leader of the notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is charged with five counts of money laundering.
The dual Mexican-U.S. citizen, who appeared before a court judge Wednesday via teleconference, was arrested February 26 while visiting a Washington federal courthouse where her brother Rubén ‘El Menchito’ Oseguera was attending a hearing on drug trafficking a week after he had been extradited from Mexico.
Jessica, who is also known as ‘La Negra’ and like her brother was born in California, was unaware that a grand jury had indicted her February 16 for the federal crimes after the Department of Treasury had sanctioned several businesses in 2015 that were reportedly tied to the Jalisco New Generation, widely known as the most powerful criminal organization in Mexico. At least one of the companies that were blacklisted were registered to her.
Jessica Johana Oseguera, the daughter of Mexican drug lord Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera, is set to face trial in Washington, D.C. for money laundering charges
Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes co-founded the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which since the fall of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán became Mexico’s most powerful criminal group
On March 20, the 33-year-old mother of two children petitioned the court to grant her release because she feared she would contract the coronavirus in prison. However, the motion was denied by the judge, who side with the prosecutors because she was considered a flight risk.
She previously also asked the court to be placed under house arrest at her aunt’s $500,000 California residence, which was offered as collateral.
But prosecutors countered because the ‘plot of land in Southern California that has an appraised value of only approximately $109,000 and previously sold for less than $100,000’ was part of a scheme to ‘mislead’ the judge.
The arrest of the two siblings is part of an ongoing investigation by U.S. federal authorities to dismantle an organization that rose to power after the fall of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, once an ally of El Mencho.
El Mencho has evaded capture for eight years and the U.S. government is offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest.
He is charged with conspiring to distribute massive amounts of drugs ‘for illegal importation into the United States’ and using a gun ‘during and in relation to these drug trafficking crimes’, according to an October 2018 indictment presented in a Washington court.
California-born Rubén ‘El Menchito’ Oseguera González was extradited from Mexico to the United States in February, and his sister Jessica Oseguera was apprehended at a Washington, D.C. federal court where he was attending a hearing February 26
The 53-year-old Michoacán native is also charged with drug trafficking in the state of Mississippi and was designated as a ‘kingpin’ under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act in April 2015.
El Mencho’s organization operates in 24 of 32 states in Mexico and has shipped cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin to the United States.
The cartel, is known to be in control of at least two-thirds of the U.S. drug market.
In early March, the DEA announced the arrest of more than 600 members of the cartel who were mostly operating in the states of Texas, California, New York, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Colorado. The organization also has a presence in New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
El Menchito, 30, has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine and meth, and use of a firearm in commission of a drug trafficking offense. If convicted, he faces at least 15 years in prison.
He is considered to be the second-in-command behind his father.
Mexican authorities arrested El Menchito in 2015 and he spent several years fighting extradition and even argued in court that El Mencho was not his biological father.
El Mencho is one of the 10 most-wanted men on the FBI’s list and the U.S. Department of Justice is also offering a $10 million reward for his arrest
Source: Daily Mail US
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