WASHINGTON — The son of a Mexican drug cartel boss has been sentenced to existence in jail for his personal management function in one of the most nation’s greatest and maximum violent narcotics trafficking organizations.
Rubén Oseguera, referred to as El Menchito, is the son of fugitive Jalisco New Era cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera. The son served because the CJNG cartel’s second-in-command earlier than his extradition to the U.S. in February 2020.
The more youthful Oseguera confronted a most sentence of existence in jail and a compulsory minimal of 40 years in jail when U.S. District Pass judgement on Beryl Howell sentenced him in Washington, D.C. One in every of Oseguera’s protection legal professionals requested for a 40-year jail sentence.
Howell additionally ordered a forfeiture of over $6 billion as a part of the sentence.
In September, a federal jury convicted Oseguera of conspiring to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for U.S. importation and the usage of a firearm in a drug conspiracy.
Oseguera ordered the killings of no less than 100 other people, for my part shot and killed no less than two other people and ordered subordinates to shoot down a Mexican army helicopter, killing no less than 9 other people in 2015, prosecutors mentioned.
