Federal authorities said they caused the biggest shock of the most bloody drug cartel of Mexico on Wednesday after completing a 6-month business hundreds of search warrants and 250 raids across the country.
Nicknamed «the Python Project», a joint operation of the anti-drug (DEA) and the U.S. Department of justice helped to push the New generation Cartel of Jalisco (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) and its known leader, nemesio. «El Mencho» Oseguera Cervantes, one of the most wanted drug lords in the world.
«These arrests are interspersed with many other detentions of members of different levels of government cartel CJNG since the beginning of operation the Project Python»,- told on a press-conferences on Wednesday the representative of the DEA to Utt Dillon. «During this 6-month operation of the DEA arrested more than 700 suspects related to the cartel, seized more than 20 thousand kilograms of drugs, including more than 15 thousand kilograms of amphetamine and more than $22 million in banknotes and valuables,» added Dillon.
Assistant attorney General criminal division U.S. Department of justice Brian Benczkowski called Kartel «one of the most dangerous interstate criminal organizations in the world.»
«The cartel is associated with the transport of a variety of deadly substances,» said Benczkowski. «He is responsible for the transportation of tons of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin with fentanyl in the United States and other countries around the world.»
The Federal Agency also announced a new indictment against El Mencho – a month later, after his son Reuben Oseguera was extradited to the United States and is now waiting for the court.
Officials called CJNG «the most armed cartel» in Mexico. Their network of product distribution affected new York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Atlanta.
DEA special agent ray Donovan called the cartel «the main threat to the security of people on both sides of the southwest border.» «These arrests leave no doubt that the cartel has set their sights on new York as a transit and destination for their business plan,» Donovan said.
The cartel Jalisco made a lot of noise in January when a Hitman cartel, 21-year-old Maria Guadalupe Lopez Esquivel, known as «La Katrina», was killed in a shootout with law enforcement.
