In the US, 'El Guacho', son-in-law of 'El Mencho', has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for laundering money for the CJNG cartel.

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Cristian Fernando “G,” also known as El Guacho, son-in-law of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.

At the time of his arrest in November 2024, El Guacho was living in California under a false identity after faking his death. He is described as a "high-ranking leader of a Mexican cartel" and was charged with "international drug trafficking and money laundering."

Cristian Fernando was wanted by Mexican authorities on suspicion of kidnapping two members of the Mexican Navy in 2021 to secure the release of El Mencho's wife, who had been arrested by Mexican authorities, according to an affidavit from a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent.

Federal Judge Beryl Howell, in Washington, D.C., sentenced Gutiérrez Ochoa to 11 years and eight months in federal prison.

Last June, El Guacho pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of conspiracy to conduct financial transactions involving proceeds of unlawful activity, or money laundering.

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How Mencho's Son-in-Law Fled to California After Faking His Death

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

In 2020, social media and narco news outlets reported on the death of "El Mencho." Such rumors have been commonly thrown around with these elusive drug lords who have been out of the public eye for decades. It is believed the leader of CJNG was receiving treatments for his kidneys.

A few years later, a similar death rumor was being spread within the CJNG organization itself, that someone very close to "El Mencho," and his family was recently killed because he had lied to the leader of the CJNG. 

This rumor soon spread to the intended ears of Mexican and US law enforcement. Cristian Fernando Gutiérrez-Ochoa, better known as "El Gaucho" was dead...that is until on November 19, 2024 when he was arrested in a luxury home in Riverside, California, living under the name of Luis Miguel Martinez.

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"CJNG Cartel", High-Ranking Mexican Leader Arrested on Charges of International Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering After Faking Own Death to Live in California Under Assumed Identity

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

PRESS RELEASE OF OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2024 

NEMESIO RUBEN OSEGUERA-CERVANTES 

EL MENCHO 

A federal court in the Central District of California unsealed a criminal complaint yesterday charging Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa — a high-ranking member of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and the son-in-law of the CJNG’s leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as El Mencho — with international drug trafficking and money laundering offenses. Gutierrez-Ochoa was arrested in Riverside, California, on Nov. 19.

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