Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes
Mexican drug lord
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| December 5 2024 | DEA increases El Mencho's bounty from US$10 million to US$15 million. |
| November 2024 | Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa, a high-ranking CJNG leader who faked his death, was arrested in Riverside, California on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. |
| March 2023 | U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Kyle Mori publicly denies rumors of El Mencho's death during an interview. |
| December 2022 | Antonio Oseguera Cervantes (El Tony Montana) was arrested during an army raid in Guadalajara, identified as a logistics operator for the CJNG. |
| April 2022 | Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa was reported to be the romantic partner of El Mencho's daughter Laisha. |
| February 2022 | Unconfirmed reports emerge suggesting El Mencho died from respiratory arrest while receiving treatment in a private hospital in Guadalajara. |
| 2021 | Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa was charged with kidnapping two Mexican Navy members. |
| November 2021 | Rosalinda González Valencia was arrested in Zapopan, Jalisco, identified as the financial chief of the CJNG. |
| June 11 2021 | Jessica Johana Oseguera Cervantes was sentenced to 2 years in prison. |
| March 18 2021 | El Cholo was murdered, with his body discovered stabbed and wrapped in plastic on a park bench in downtown Tlaquepaque. |
| March 12 2021 | Jessica Johana Oseguera Cervantes pleaded guilty to charges. |
| 2020 | Reported to be suffering from kidney disease, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho) built a hospital in the village of El Alcíhuatl to help treat his medical condition. |
| February 2020 | Jessica Johana Oseguera Cervantes was arrested in Washington D.C. on charges related to supporting the CJNG. |
| February 21 2020 | Rubén Oseguera González was extradited to the United States. |
| April 2019 | Adrián Alonso Guerrero Covarrubias (El Mencho's godson) was arrested on drug trafficking and kidnapping charges. |
| October 16 2018 | U.S. Departments of State, Justice, and Treasury increase El Mencho's bounty to US$10 million as part of a joint law-enforcement measure against CJNG. |
| September 2018 | Rosalinda González Valencia was released on bail of 1.5 million pesos. |
| August 15 2018 | PGR offers up to MXN$30 million for information leading to El Mencho's capture, related to the alleged masterminding of two AIC agents' kidnapping and murder. |
| May 2018 | Rosalinda González Valencia (El Mencho's wife) was arrested on money laundering charges. |
| December 18 2017 | YouTube star Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales is gunned down in Jalisco, potentially in connection with insults towards El Mencho. |
| March 2017 | Nemesio Osegueda Cervantes (El Mencho) ordered the murder of El Cholo, a former CJNG member who betrayed the organization by joining the Nueva Plaza Cartel, after El Cholo murdered a CJNG financial operator nicknamed 'El Colombiano'. |
| 2016 | Mexican authorities suspected Omar Eleazar Oseguera Cervantes was part of the CJNG leadership structure. |
| 2016 | Elvis González Valencia (El Mencho's brother-in-law) was arrested as the CJNG's lead financier and later released in December. |
| October 27 2016 | OFAC sanctions nine individuals connected to El Mencho, including his brother and son-in-law, freezing their U.S.-based assets. |
| April 6 2016 | Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez was re-arrested for involvement in the CJNG. |
| December 4 2015 | Antonio Oseguera Cervantes was arrested in Jalisco by the Mexican Army and Navy for working as one of El Mencho's top financial operators. |
| September 17 2015 | OFAC sanctions five businesses in Jalisco for financially supporting El Mencho and the CJNG. |
| July 1 2015 | Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez was released for lack of evidence. |
| May 1 2015 | Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez (El Mencho's son-in-law) was first arrested. |
| May 1 2015 | Mexican government launched Operation Jalisco, a military-led campaign to combat organized crime in Jalisco. During the operation, El Mencho's men shot down a Mexican Army helicopter, killing 9 soldiers, and set fire to numerous buses, banks, and gas stations across 20 towns in three states. |
| April 8 2015 | U.S. Department of Treasury sanctions El Mencho under the Kingpin Act, freezing his U.S.-based assets and prohibiting U.S. citizens from doing business with him. |
| April 6 2015 | CJNG gunmen killed 15 police officers and wounded 5 more in an attack on a Jalisco State Police convoy in San Sebastián del Oeste. The same day, CJNG hitmen killed Miguel Ángel Caicedo Vargas, the police chief of Zacoalco de Torres. |
| March 30 2015 | CJNG gunmen ambushed a convoy of Jalisco's security commissioner Alejandro Solorio Aréchiga in Zapopan, Jalisco, with no casualties. |
| March 23 2015 | Heriberto Acevedo Cárdenas, a close associate of El Mencho, was killed in a shootout with Federal Police in Zacoalco de Torres, Jalisco. |
| March 19 2015 | CJNG gunmen ambushed a Federal Police convoy in Ocotlán, Jalisco, killing 11 people, including 5 police officers, 3 civilians, and 3 CJNG gunmen. The attack was to protect El Mencho during a meeting in the area. |
| February 28 2015 | Abigael González Valencia, El Mencho's brother-in-law and leader of Los Cuinis drug trafficking group, was arrested by the Mexican Navy. |
| 2014 | DEA discovers El Mencho's methamphetamine shipment from Mexico to Australia via China-based gangs. |
| March 2014 | United States District Court for the District of Columbia indicts El Mencho for drug trafficking and leading a 'Continuing Criminal Enterprise', including coordinating cocaine and methamphetamine shipments. |
| 2013 | Mexican authorities accused Abraham Oseguera Cervantes of murder in Michoacán, though charges were later dropped. |
| 2013 | DEA detects two cocaine shipments from Mexico to the United States. |
| August 25 2012 | Mexican Federal Police responded to an anonymous tip in Tonaya, Jalisco, leading to a shootout with CJNG gunmen where 6 were killed. Initially reported as El Mencho's capture, but later confirmed he was not arrested. |
| September 27 2011 | Mexico's Office of the General Prosecutor (PGR) issues an arrest warrant for El Mencho, offering MXN$2 million for information leading to his arrest, accusing him of organized crime and illegal firearm possession. |
| July 2010 | Ignacio 'Nacho' Coronel was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Army, further destabilizing the criminal networks El Mencho was involved with. |
| May 6 2010 | Juan Carlos Nava Valencia ('El Tigre'), brother of the previous Milenio Cartel leader, was arrested by authorities. |
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