A person whose slain brother led certainly one of Mexico’s strongest and violent drug cartels pleaded responsible Friday in Washington to conspiring to visitors cocaine and methamphetamine into the US.
Antonio Oseguera Cervantes labored for cartels along with his brother Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the drug lord often known as “El Mencho” who was killed by the Mexican military in February, in line with federal prosecutors.
The killing sparked nationwide unrest, with cartel members erecting freeway blockades and setting hearth to automobiles and buildings throughout 20 Mexican states. The violence left greater than 70 folks useless, together with 25 Nationwide Guard members.
El Mencho co-founded and led the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, identified by its Spanish-language acronym CJNG. Final 12 months, President Trump’s administration designated the CJNG and different cartels as international terrorist organizations.
Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, 67, of Michoacán, Mexico, faces a compulsory minimal sentence of 15 years in jail. U.S. District Choose Beryl Howell is scheduled to condemn him on Nov. 13.
He’s alleged to have distributed 450 kilograms or extra — about 992 kilos — of cocaine and at the least 45 kilograms, roughly 99 kilos, or extra of methamphetamine from at the least January 1998 to December 2022, in line with prosecutors.
In addition to the conspiracy cost, Antonio Oseguera Cervantes additionally pleaded responsible to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking conspiracy.
He was transferred from Mexico to the U.S. for prosecution in February 2025. He was a member of the Milenio Cartel earlier than his brother co-founded the CJNG.
The U.S. this month introduced a slew of sanctions concentrating on greater than 50 Mexican people and entities allegedly linked to CJNG, together with the Jalisco New Technology Cartel’s new chief, twin U.S.-Mexican nationwide Juan Carlos Gonzalez.
