Judge Issues Formal Arrest Warrant Against Osiel Cárdenas

 "Char" for Borderland Beat

This information was posted from RIODOCE 

Author | Editorial Staff

Date | December 23, 2024

Time | 1:08 pm

A federal judge ordered the formal imprisonment of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, alias “Mata Amigos” and founder of the Zetas criminal group, for his probable criminal responsibility in the crime of organized crime in the hypothesis of crimes against health.

The Attorney General's Office (FGR), informed that the measure was obtained through the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO), in coordination with the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Regional Control (FECOR), in the State of Mexico.

According to the investigation, Osiel Cardenas belonged to a criminal organization “in which he allegedly exercised leadership and made alliances with members of various criminal gangs, in addition to trafficking drugs in the Port of Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan, Guerrero, Tamaulipas and internationally,” said the Attorney General's Office in a statement.

After the evidence provided by the agent of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF), the Fourth District Court in Criminal Matters with residence in Toluca, issued a formal order of imprisonment against this person, in the Federal Center of Social Reinsertion number 1 “Altiplano”, in Almoloya de Juárez.

Cárdenas Guillén was deported from the United States to Mexico on December 16.

It should be noted that, in the last week, an arrest warrant was served on him in prison for the probable commission of the crime of homicide.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

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FGR Admits Confusion In “Z40” Case: Miguel Angel Treviño's Lawyer; “My Client Is A Homonym”, He Assures

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from EL UNIVERSAL 

Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales has been deprived of his freedom for eleven years without any conviction.

WRITTEN BY: MANUEL ESPINO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Eleven judges reached the same decision: Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales is not “El Z40” that the authorities are looking for, emphasized Juan Manuel Delgado, lawyer for Treviño Morales, who has been in prison for eleven years without any conviction.

The litigant affirmed that the Attorney General's Office (FGR) proved that there is a person named Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, with the alias “Z40” and that he is the leader of “Los Zetas”, but it was proven that his client is a homonym.

He recalled that there were more than 10 protected witnesses who testified against his defendant, three of whom, when confronted by his defendant Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, stated that they did know “Z40”, Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, but that the person who was in front of them was not “Z40”.

“Of the entire universe of collaborating witnesses that the Attorney General's Office brought, absolutely all of them coincide in describing Z40 with the same name as my client, Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, as a person of 1 meter 80 centimeters, with a closed beard, but with very clear secondary identification characteristics:

“For example, everyone talks about him having a scar on his right parietal, a prolonged scar on his abdomen, a scar on his right arm, a very large tattoo on his chest, but those characteristics do not correspond to Mr. Miguel,” he said.

And he added: “If there are 10 protected witnesses to talk about a judicial error, we could understand that a judge could make a mistake, but that at the moment 11 judges have reached the same determination, I think it is beyond reasonable, the doubt, let's say for the general public, that there is an error in the identification of Z40, but what there is no doubt is that it is an established legal truth and against and against a legal truth, we will have to go against the rule of law itself to have it dismissed. Today it has already been accredited by the Judicial Power that it is not the one they are looking for or the one the United States is requesting”.

Attorney Juan Manuel Delgado assured that by means of expert evidence they accredited that his client, Mr. Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, “never had those tattoos or scars and we accredited that our client has never had those types of characteristics.

Therefore, he said, “as of today there is an irrefutable legal truth” that his client is not “El Z40”, even the litigant pointed out that the FGR has accepted in several replies sent to them that there is a confusion in the identity of his client.

Regarding the extradition process of his client, attorney Juan Manuel Delgado explained that no judicial opinion has been issued on the appropriateness of the transfer to the United States, the country that requires it.

He added that in the ten years he has been defending Mr. Miguel Angel Treviño Morales there has not been any conviction against him and a few months ago he obtained the last acquittal sentence for organized crime.

“We still have one more process pending resolution, which is the process derived from the arrest of Mr. Miguel Angel, which I must say is a process that although it is still under investigation, we are still weaving a defense, there is no sentence, it is a process that is plagued with lies and falsehoods”.

However, he emphasized that all the sentences that exist in Mexico against his defendant Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, are liberties, he has been in preventive prison for 11 years without a single conviction, he is not guilty of anything today and what is even more relevant is that today in Mexico he is not being accused of organized crime, nor is he being accused of being Z40, this is finished”.

SOURCE: EL UNIVERSAL 

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Gulf Cartel Faction Group Metros Of Reynosa Plaza Boss Of Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, Ricky Segura "R53" Or "R57" Captured By National Guard And Army In Reynosa: Tamaulipas

 "Char" and "Enojon" for Borderland Beat 

August 29, 2024

SOURCE: EL GUZMAN

This past Thursday morning, August 29, 2024, Ricky Segura "R53" or "R57" was captured by military forces, which included a helicopter being used on a special raid in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Ricky or R57 is a close collaborator of Cesar Morfin Morfin "Primito" leader of the Gulf Cartel faction Group Metros of Reynosa, and Alvaro Noe Morfin Morfin "R8" second in command of his brother Primito. 

SOURCE: EL GUZMAN 

RICKY SEGURA 

Ricky Segura was the plaza boss of Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, which is about 2 miles across the U.S. border next to Roma, Texas. Miguel Aleman is a key plaza for the Group Metros of Reynosa, but recently has faced an onslaught of incursions from Cartel Del Noreste, as both rival groups try to have control of this key drug plaza. 

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A source close to the Group Metros of Reynosa said the following about the capture of Ricky Segura,

"El Primito gave him up to authorities because Ricky was creating too much conflict in the Miguel Aleman plaza, civilians were complaining about him extorting businesses, and raising the quotas so Primito sacrificed him to calm the waters. That is why today there were no roadblocks or burning of vehicles, and we were told that the radio frequencies got turned off so Ricky did not have time to react".

SEGURA OPEN LETTER

Segura would be named in an open letter that was published to social media on August 16th, 2023 where residents of the Los Guerra town of Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas would urge for the deployment of federal authorities amid the severe insecurity that would derive from the attempts at territorial control by the Northeast Cartel and the Gulf Cartel who deem the town to be a strategic point to conduct illicit activities, while advocating for security forces to locate the whereabouts of Segura for his alleged involvement in a series of crimes such as orchestrating attacks against residents of the town Los Pueblos. 

The constant violence would result in the forced displacement of around 50 families from La Guerra who would flee towards the City Miguel Alemán in an attempt to seek refuge from repeated attacks and threats by the criminal organizations, who had previously targeted residents as they attempted their escape but were supported by State Police and Mexican Military personnel.

Image By: VerdadTamps on Twitter (Original Letter)

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Osiel Cardenas Guillen, Former Leader Of The Gulf Cartel And Founder Of Los Zetas, Was released From Prison In The United States On Friday, August 30, 2024, But His Location Is Unknown

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE

AUGUST 30, 2024 

Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the Gulf Cartel, was released from prison in the United States on Friday, August 30, but his location is unknown.

U.S. government sources confirmed to the digital media Elefante Blanco that the drug lord left the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was imprisoned for the last months of his 14-year sentence on charges related to drug trafficking, threatening agents and money laundering.

Currently, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons lists Osiel's location as “Unknown,” even though he has criminal proceedings pending in Mexico.

Cardenas Guillen, registered number 62604-079, was as of Friday in the USP Terre Haute prison.

In Mexico, he faces pending charges of organized crime and drug trafficking, but the Mexican government has not notified him of an eventual deportation.

Previous records from the same bureau suggest that Cardenas Guillen could have been released on July 1, 2024.

Osiel Cardenas, a former leader of the Gulf Cartel, was born in 1967 in Tamaulipas, and became the cartel's leader in the 1990s, expanding his control over drug trafficking in northeastern Mexico.

He was captured on March 15, 2003 by the Mexican Army and extradited to the United States in 2007, where he was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges related to drug trafficking, money laundering and threatening federal agents.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

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