The US sentences 'El Hummer,' a founding member of Los Zetas, to 35 years in prison.

CHAR 

JUNE 20, 2025 

MILENIO 

VIDEO TRANSLATION 

MALE ANCHOR: We're going further because in the United States, a Washington Federal Court judge issued a sentence against Jaime González Durán, aka El Hummer, founder of Los Zetas, Ángel Hernandez, with more details, Ángel, go ahead. 

ANGEL HERNDANDEZ DIAZ: How are you, Samuel? Good day?

Well, indeed, Jaime González Durán, who was one of the original members of the ZETAS, this armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, was sentenced today at the request of the US Attorney's Office. After reaching a plea agreement for 35 years in prison, he pleaded guilty last February to trafficking tons of cocaine and marijuana from Mexico to the United States when we were part of the Zetas. As part of this sentence, he will also have to pay $792 million, which is the estimated amount of drugs trafficked from Mexico to the United States. He was investigated by the DEA. He is currently 49 years old, and according to the investigations, he was, let's say, a plaza boss or commander or regional boss for the Matamoros in the cities of Matamoros, Reynosa, and Miguel Alemán in Tamaulipas. When this was formed, we will remember Samuel as the company, the alliance between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, who established an iron fist in Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Veracruz, and Chiapas to form the marijuana and cocaine trafficking networks, mainly for loss. It should be remembered that the US Attorney's Office points out, for example, that González Durán had safe houses where he kept firearms that were used by the ZETAS to provide protection to the Gulf Cartel, among the evidence that the DEA was also able to acquire. The DEA found a series of wiretaps in May 2007 in which Hummer himself coordinated the transfer of almost 1.5 million dollars from McAlester, Texas, to Mexico, money that they would have obtained from drug trafficking. This is the situation. For the moment, it should be remembered that this man was extradited from Mexico to the United States in October 2022 after being arrested in 2015 here on Mexican territory. Samuel. 

MALE ANCHOR: Well, then.We'll be attentive to what remains of the proceedings against this man, or at least what he serves on his sentence. Thank you.

ANGEL HERNANDEZ DIAZ: Good morning, Samuel, thank you.

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11 Members Of 'Los Zetas' Sentenced To 50 Years In Prison In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, case

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from LA JORNADA 

WRITTEN BY: GUSTAVO CASTILLO GARCIA 

AUGUST 21, 2024

Members of Los Zetas carried out two massacres of migrants, the first in 2010, when 72 victims were discovered. In the image, the “anti-monument” installed in the CDMX for the San Fernando case. Photo María Luisa Severiano / archi

The Special Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO), in coordination with the Federal Prosecutor's Office in the state of Tamaulipas, obtained from the Second District Court for Federal Criminal Proceedings a conviction against 11 members of the Los Zetas Cartel for their responsibility in the crime of aggravated homicide committed against 122 migrants who were murdered in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas.

According to information from the Federal Judicial Power, the convicted were identified as Luis Manuel Salazar Sánchez, El Gordo Flow; Sergio Córdova Martínez, El Diablo; Samuel Moreno Saavedra, El Chiquilín; Erick Rubén Zetina Hernández, El Guacho; José Mauro Oñate Rodríguez, El Vegueta; Jhonny Torres Andrade, El Sombra; Juan Pablo Cabrera Escalante, El Cacharpas; Salvador Alfonso Martínez Escobedo, La Ardilla; Martín Omar Estrada de la Mora, El Kilo; Víctor Cuitláhuac Montoya Torres, El Comandante Degollado; and Elfego Cruz Martínez.

According to the records of the Attorney General's Office (FGR), in April 2012, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation against members of a criminal group for allegedly being responsible for the crime of aggravated homicide against 122 people, as the authority identified that they were responsible for getting off passenger transports in the municipality of San Fernando.

Subsequently, the bodies of the victims were found in several clandestine graves.

The accusations against this group of members of Los Zetas were made in 2015 and 2017.

The judge in the case ordered 50 years in prison for each of them.

Members of Los Zetas carried out two massacres of migrants, the first in 2010, when 72 victims were discovered, and in 2011 dozens of bodies were found buried in clandestine graves, bringing the total to 177, of which 122 cases remained under investigation by the FGR.

FOLLOW-UP        BY: CHAR 

SALVADOR ALFONSO MARTINEZ ESCOBEDO "LA ARDILLA" "COMANDANTE ARDILLA" 

• On OCTOBER 6, 2012, La Ardilla, or Comandante Ardilla is the former Los Zetas regional boss in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila, was captured by the secretariat of the Navy in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. 
• La Ardilla is the mastermind of ordering the death of 72 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas in August of 2010. 
• La Ardilla headed the conflict against the Gulf Cartel in Tamaulipas. 
• Comandante Ardilla was the trusted man and direct collaborator of Miguel Angel Treviño Morales "Z40". 

SOURCE: LA JORNADA 

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