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The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [15] [16] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [17] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [16] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...
Sentenced to life in prison in the United States. Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez (born 1 August 1971) is a former Mexican drug lord and top leader of the criminal drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel. [1][2] He was among Mexico's most-wanted drug lords, until his arrest in 2012. [3]
The Biden administration has released a notorious Mexican drug cartel leader from U.S. federal prison and is planning to hand him over to Mexico, a U.S. official told NBC News.. Osiel Cárdenas ...
Caught. January 14, 1996. Number. 440. Captured. Juan García Abrego[3][4] (born September 13, 1944) is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. He started in the cartel under the tutelage of his uncle Juan Nepomuceno Guerra.
Cardenas founded the Zetas, an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel made up of former army special forces. He was captured after a gun battle in 2003 and extradited to the United States in 2007. He was ...
25 years imprisonment. Imprisoned at. USP Terre Haute [1] Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (born 18 May 1967) is a Mexican drug lord and the former leader of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Originally a mechanic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, he entered the cartel by killing Juan García Abrego 's friend and competitor Salvador Gómez, after the former's ...
Former Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen once led Los Zetas, ... After his arrest in the northeast border state of Tamaulipas, he was extradited in 2007 to the United States, ...
Unknown. The 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres were a series of mass murder attacks between the allied Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Laredo, Texas. The drug-violence in Nuevo Laredo began back in 2003, when the city was controlled by the Gulf Cartel ...