DEA posts billboards in LA offering $10million reward for help catching El Mencho - the world's most wanted cartel kingpin
- The Drug Enforcement Agency posted billboards in Los Angeles with an image of Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes
- The federal agency is offering $10million for information leading to the capture of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel's leader
- El Mencho is believed to be sick and hiding out in Mexico's Pacific coast mountainous region from where he is directing the transnational organization
- On Wednesday, the DEA announced the arrest of more than 600 members of the infamous cartel
- Two of El Mencho's three children are being held by the U.S. government
The Drug Enforcement Agency has posted billboards throughout Los Angeles in hopes the public will help them catch the world's most wanted cartel kingpin.
The anti-narcotics agency has paid for adverts along two highways offering a $10million reward for information that leads to the arrest of Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
El Mencho is believed to be sick and hiding out in Mexico's Pacific coast mountainous region from where he is directing the transnational organization.
One of the billboard is located on 5 Freeway near Slauson Avenue and the other went up on Freeway 10 near Paramount Boulevard.
El Mencho, 53, is charged with conspiring to distribute massive amounts of drugs 'for illegal importation into the United States' and using a gun 'during and in relation to these drug trafficking crimes', according to an October 2018 indictment presented in a Washington court.
The San Francisco-born drug lord is also charged with drug trafficking in the state of Mississippi and was designated as a 'kingpin' under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act in April 2015.
The DEA has unfurled two billboards in two different California highways as it seeks any type of information that could lead the agency to the capture of Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes, the most wanted drug capo
Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes founded the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in 2010
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It is believed that El Mencho, a former ally of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, is suffering from kidney problems and is frequently receiving dialysis for his sickness, according to a Mexican government official who spoke to Union Jalisco newspaper in December.
El Mencho's organization operates in 24 of 32 states in Mexico and has shipped cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin to the United States.
The cartel, is known to be in control of between one-third and two-thirds of the U.S. drug market.
On Wednesday, the DEA announced the arrest of more than 600 members of the cartel who were mostly operating in the states of Texas, California, New York, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Colorado. The organization also has a presence in New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
El Mencho, formed his syndicate in 2010 with members of the now-defunct Milenio Cartel, and extended its influence throughout Europe, Asia and Australia, and neighboring countries in Central America, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has reigned terror across Mexico, dumping piles of bodies in streets and hanging them from overpasses, while filling the city of Guadalajara with mass graves.
Members are at times seen aboard SUVs and pickup trucks patrolling the streets of some of the towns they control with machine guns and hand grenades. They once used rocket launchers to shoot down a Mexican military helicopter.
Jessica Johana Oseguera (left) and Rubén 'El Menchito' Oseguera González are being held by the U.S. government. Their father, Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes,the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is wanted by the DEA
Very little is known of El Mencho's personal life except that he was an aficionado of cockfighting events before coming a top target of the Mexican government.
Two of El Mencho's three children are being held by the United States government.
Jessica Johana Oseguera, 33, was arrested last February 26 inside a D.C. federal courthouse while appearing at a hearing for her brother, Rubén 'El Menchito' Oseguera González, 30, who was extradited from Mexico on February 20 to face drug charges.
Oseguera, a mother of two American-born children, is charged with five counts of violating the Kingpin Act by allegedly laundering money for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
El Menchito has multiple charges relating to conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
El Mencho's wife, Rosalinda González Valencia, posted a $67,000 bail bond in September 2018 after spending three months in prison following her arrest over money laundering charges.
El Mencho is one of the 10 most-wanted men on the FBI's list and the U.S. Department of Justice is also offering a $10 million reward for his arrest
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