Breaking News:Judge Halts Extradition Of Former Los Zetas Leader 'Z-42' To The U.S.

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE 

JULY 6, 2024

A federal judge has halted, for the time being, the extradition of Oscar Omar Treviño Morales, alias Z-42 considered a former leader of Los Zetas, to the United States.

According to El Universal, the defense of the former criminal leader filed an injunction against the extradition at the end of June before the head of the Fourth District Court for Criminal Matters, María del Carmen Sánchez Cisneros.

The judge granted an ex officio and outright suspension because "the extradition and departure of the plaintiff from the country is imminent.

Treviño Morales is wanted by the District Court of Columbia, in the United States, for drug trafficking.

Z-42 was arrested in March 2015 in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, and is currently imprisoned in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation Number 12 "CPS-Guanajuato".

The former leader of Los Zetas is accused by federal authorities of the massacre of migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, as well as the burning of the Casino Royale in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, among other acts of violence.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

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Court Orders Miguel Trevino Morales "Z-40" to be transferred to Altiplano Supermax in Juarez

Translated for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article by Otis B Fly-Wheel

After more than a year in Puente Grande, the narco trafficker Miguel Trevino will return to Almoloya otherwise known as Altiplano SuperMax.

Z-40

Judges of the Appeal Court in Criminal Matters of the Second Circuit ordered the return of the former leader of the criminal group Los Zetas, Miguel Angel Tevino Morales "Z-40", from the Maximum Security Prison Puente Grande, Jalisco, to the Maximum Security "Altiplano" in Almoloya, Juarez.

This provision stems from the judgement of the amparo in review, lodged by the drug trafficker from Tamaulipas, who complained of his transfer from Federal Prison the authorities carried out on December 19th 2013, when he was transferred from CEFERESO number 1 in the State of Mexico to number 2 in Jalisco.

When the inmate claimed the protection of the Federal Court arguing that most of its criminal proceedings are heard in State District Courts. The Second Judge of the District in specialized matter, located in Toluca denied the amparo because " it is a fait accompli irreparably."

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Accountant, El Rocky, Snitched on Z-40

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Francisco Dair Montalvo Recio, El Rocky, detained in December of 2012 in Nuevo  Laredo, was an key figure in the collapse of Z-40. Ministry sources quoted in an article in Reforma saying Recio Montalvo was  arrested with the 5 million peso payroll for organization members, government  officials and weapons in Nuevo Laredo. Along with El Rocky they also captured Ana Maria Cruz Enriquez, Karen, Cesar Ramirez Vazquez, Calaña , and Joaquin Ramos Hernandez, Cabañas, two  handguns, a charger for a gun, 47 plastic bags containing cocaine, as well as  telephones and computer equipment. "This greatly helped the Marine intelligence actions against Treviño Morales, mainly  regarding the precision of Los Zetas' movements, Z-40 in particular," said the  Ministry source cited by Reforma. As a result, the Marines obtained important information on schedules, routes Z-40  readily used, addresses he frequented, the location of other members, the number  of guards they used as well as the registration numbers of their vehicles. The information El Rocky divulged also included particulars in Coahuila, where  many Z-40 operatives used to live. Following the leads provided, the Marines also managed to find the address where  Los Zetas kept captured migrants. Last March, using a Black Hawk helicopter, Marines came upon a safe house  where they found 104 migrants (91 men and 13 women) from Honduras  and El Salvador, who had been ordered kidnapped apparently by people  under the command of Trevino Morales. Reforma, Proceso, Notaroja

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