A U.S. court imposed this Friday a sentence of 22 years in prison on Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, the brother of the late leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), for crimes linked to drug trafficking and the use of weapons.
Judge Beryl A. Howell, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, handed down the sentence against this man, known as "Tony Montana", after he pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine and use of firearms, crimes he would have committed for at least two decades, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Oseguera, who remains incarcerated in a prison in the state of Virginia, is the brother of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho", who died last February in an operation by federal forces in Tapalpa, in the state of Jalisco, which sparked a wave of unrest in at least a dozen states of Mexico.
In February 2025, he was extradited to the United States from Mexico, where he had been in custody since December 2022 after being detained in an operation in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, also in Jalisco.