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SSPC Director Omar Harfuch confirmed that 37 criminals were taken to the US and on to Washington, D.C., Houston, New York, Pennsylvania, San Antonio and San Diego; aboard 7 aircraft.
“With this transfer, 92 high-impact criminals have now been sent to the U.S. during this administration, and they will no longer be able to generate violence in our country,” the Secretary of Security reported.
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Last week saw an unprecedented number of Mexican drug cartel kingpins and traffickers transferred from Mexico to US custody. A total of 29 in one day occurred with half a dozen extraditions occuring in the prior weeks.
On average for the last several years, Mexico has extradited around 60 cartel figures each year. So far, over half of that amount has been sent to the US so far this year. Most of the 29 had been captured in recent years during the AMLO administration with several stretching back to over a decade in Mexican custody.
Many had fought their extradition with numerous legal tactics and Amparos seeing to halt the legal process needed for extradition to the US. "Z-40," the CDN/Los Zetas leader even filed paperwork denying that he is the person listed in the indictments. One, "El Guerito" a Los Chapitos lieutenant had only been arrested days earlier in February.
So how did over a decade of legal proceedings for extraditing cartel members fall by the wayside after trade negotiations and the designation of cartel groups and FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organizations)? What provision is Mexico using to justify bypassing the legal extradition process in Mexico?
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This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
July 14, 2024
Rodrigo Omar Páez Quintero, alias "El R", nephew of Rafael Caro Quintero, was extradited to the United States government, requested by the Federal District Court for the District of Arizona, for the crimes of criminal association and against health.
Rodrigo "P" was handed over at the Toluca International Airport in the State of Mexico to the U.S. agents designated for his transfer to that country.
In a press release, the Attorney General's Office (FGR) informed that it extradited a Mexican fugitive wanted by the Federal District Court in Arizona.
Rodrigo "P", between 2017 and 2019, was one of the leaders of a drug trafficking organization in Mexico, located in Caborca, Sonora. The extraditable was in charge of directing and supervising drug trafficking activities, and money laundering, according to the FGR.
The Mexican Government granted the extradition of the defendant to the Government of the United States of America after he was arrested in Zapopan, Jalisco in April 2023.
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This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
July 10, 2024
Lupe' Tapia, 'El Mayo's' logistical operator, is granted warrent to be extradited to the US
A judge granted José Guadalupe Tapia Quintero, alias Lupe Tapia, Ismael El Mayo Zambada García's logistics operator, an injunction to be extradited or deported to the United States.
Alfonso Alexander López Moreno, Fifth District Judge in Amparo and Federal Trials in the State of Mexico, granted the flat suspension that prevents Tapia Quintero's extradition or deportation, according to Milenio newspaper.
On June 25, it was announced that a federal judge also ordered that El Lupe, who is being held in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation No. 1, better known as El Altiplano, not be held incommunicado.
Tapia Quintero was arrested in the Tacuichamona syndicate in Culiacán on February 9, 2023 by members of the Navy.
On February 17, 2023, the control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center of Almoloya de Juárez, in the State of Mexico, sentenced alias "El Lupe" to trial for his alleged guilt in the alleged crimes against health and possession of firearms for the exclusive use of the Mexican Army and Air Force.
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