Cristian Fernando Gutiérrez Ochoa, better known as “El Guacho” will be transferred to a Washington DC prison, after appearing at a hearing in which he said he feared for his life.
Gutiérrez Ochoa, whose arrest was announced on November 21, appeared yesterday in a federal court in California, where he was charged with the crimes of drug trafficking and money laundering for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), the chain reported Telemundopresent at the hearing.
The judge in charge of the case accepted that it be transferred to DC on December 9, but not that it remain in the hands of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE). “El Guacho”, son-in-law of “El Mencho”, who remains a fugitive, said that he fears for his life and that he does not want to return to Mexicowhere it is also required by Justice, he pointed out Telemundo.
The Prosecutor’s Office assures that Gutiérrez Ochoa, 37 years old, He faked his own death and fled to the United States to escape from Mexican authorities after kidnapping two members of the Mexican Navy in 2021.
His father-in-law, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, He told people close to him that he had killed Gutiérrez Ochoa for having lied, but actually helped him flee to USA to be with “El Mencho’s” daughter, the Justice Department said.
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To Gutiérrez Ochoa He is accused of criminal conspiracy to import tons of methamphetamine and cocaine into the United States, and to use violence as part of the cartel’s illicit activities. He is accused of kidnapping the two members of the Mexican Navy in 2021 in hopes of securing the release of the wife of “El Mencho” after she was apprehended by the Mexican authorities, says the Department of Justice.
“The Jalisco Cartel – one of the most violent and prolific drug trafficking organizations in the world – is weaker today due to the tenacious efforts of law enforcement to locate and arrest a cartel leader who allegedly faked his own death and assumed a false identity to evade justice and live a life of luxury in California”, Undersecretary of Justice Lisa Monaco said in a statement.
Gutierrez Ochoa He was held in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles, California. in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), number 15295-506.
With information from SUN.
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