Lucio R. Borderland Beat- Republished from San Antonio Express
“Today is my father’s birthday,” Cardenas Jr. said in Spanish. “Instead of going to visit him like they do every year, (my family) is here to support me.”
Osiel Cardenas Jr., 23,
the son of one of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords, was sentenced Monday to
10 months in federal prison for attempting to smuggle military-grade ammunition
into Mexico on New Year’s Eve.
Cardenas Jr. is the son
of Osiel Cardenas, 48, who was the former leader of the Gulf Cartel and is now
incarcerated in the reputed Supermax prison in Colorado for his role in
orchestrating drug cartel activities along the Texas-Mexico border.
Cardenas Jr., a U.S.
citizen born in Texas but raised in Mexico, had faced a maximum sentence of up
to 10 years in prison. He was also fined $10,000 and will serve three years of
supervised release.
Still, U.S. District
Judge Andrew Hanen cautioned Cardenas Jr. against visiting Matamoros, Mexico,
in the future.
“You’re at a crossroads
… you need to decide which way you’re going to go,” Hanen told Cardenas Jr.,
also known as “Mini Osiel.” “If you follow down the same pathway as your
father, you’re going to end up in the same place.”
Cardenas Jr. pleadedguilty in February to trying to sneak hundreds of rounds of bullets past U.S.
Customs and Border Protection officers in Brownsville en route to Matamoros on
Dec. 31, including 290 rounds of 9mm ammunition and 161 rounds of .223mm
ammunition.
Authorities also found
in his black 2015 Cadillac Escalade 29 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition and a pair
of .233mm rifle magazines, which are designated as defense articles on the U.S.
Munitions List. Cardenas Jr. admitted to having more than 14 grams of marijuana
concealed in his underwear.
His mother, Celia
Cardenas, penned a handwritten letter in Spanish to the court, apologizing for
the conduct of her son, whom she called inexperienced and immature.
Hanen appeared to sympathize
with Cardenas Jr., describing him as smart, yet burdened with the legacy of his
infamous father, the cartel capo and mastermind behind the ultraviolent Los
Zetas, which later split from the Gulf Cartel and became its own criminal
organization.
In a heartfelt plea for
leniency, Cardenas Jr., who has spent the past several months in solitary
confinement for his safety, asked that Hanen allow him to spend the day with
his family, who was in the courtroom.
“Today is my father’s
birthday,” Cardenas Jr. said in Spanish. “Instead of going to visit him like
they do every year, (my family) is here to support me.”
He is an idiot why do stupid shit when you can kick back and spend daddys money. Iike they say in spanish para pendejo no se estudia
ReplyDeleteSe nace
For real he had a 2015 escalade so money he has why try to be somebody hes not. Hes a idiot trying to fit in he should just go and live off all the money they have hidden somewhere.
DeleteHe' an animal and deserves no mercy. That judge is an idiot. And I guarantee this guy will do worse stuff then this.
Deletees un morrito......
ReplyDeletePOS Judge feeling sympathy for this animal
ReplyDeletesame judge holding up obamas immigration crap
DeleteThe kids aren't alright - The Offspring
ReplyDeleteThey tell the feds what the feds want to here,... No one knows to what extent and who he snitched on.... If he snitched on the zetas then so be it they broke apart as soon as he went to prison,... So that did not hamper the familys relations in matamoros,... And yes i go to matamorors the family as well as the son are left alone no one dares and touches puts a finger on them ironic, if they were hated or thought as of snitches he would have been killed long time ago... Just for the escalade itself,... Non the less for snitching... But that is not the case untouchables in matamorors Garcia-Abregos, Guerras,... Cardenas-Guillens..... by the way para la jente de matamoros ponganse a trabajar y dejen a la poblacion en paz,... Dejen de quitar carros porfavor no es bueno para el negocio.... Ayuden a la comunidad y la comunidad desgraciadamente les ayudara... Literalmente arreglen las plazas y arrimen luz y agua y las gentes se haran de la vidta gorda..... Joden a la poblacion la poblacion les pagar igual... Simplemente su servidor matamorense
DeleteEl capo de tamaulipas the first snitch of mexico to get a reduce sentence i arriva matamorros
ReplyDeleteYou rigth this guy was the first mexican drug lord the DEA cut a deal if he snitch his people like he did then all the others follow daddy
DeleteI doubt, if he had snitched his entire family would have been dead, starting with Tormenta and the other Cardenas brothers. They are still operating the Cartel in some form or fashion.
DeleteFaced up to ten years, got ten months in prison
ReplyDeleteand three years supervision, right?
--I would give him ten years for just trying to get into matamoros, being the son of his father...
--Como hay pendejos...
The judge had to be playing for the cartels
DeleteWhile Osiel was threating the DEA Agents, it looks like his wife was having fun. Kid dont look nothing like Osiel.
ReplyDeletelol I agree
Deleteso is it ten years or ten months?
ReplyDeletethank you I changed it....
DeleteEven worse 10months!! Thats the Devils offspring. Whats going on here whats wrong with the picture there, 10months!
Delete"You need to decide which way you’re going to go":
ReplyDeleteWhy would he choose to do anything other than be a drug trafficker if he knows he can traffic military grade weapons across the border and be released after only 10 months?
If he were in a real country with a real judicial system they would not be that lenient.
The Mexican "judicial" system is a for-profit organization...
DeleteIt was only bullets not weapons
DeletePorque osielito esta haciendo un crimen tan insignificante? Es como si el hijo del chapo gusman esta travajando como halcon. No tiene sentido.
ReplyDeleteEl oso no trafica nada! Y el gobierno de Estados Unidos lo sabe. El simplemente iba a Matamoros para el año nuevo asi de sencillo. Que hace la gente en el año nuevo? Se los dejo de tarea!
DeleteOff topic..But what is the meaning of "El Min"? Benny's nickname from CAF.. Cant find it is translator/Google,etc...DWW
ReplyDeleteMeaning of Min= the last 3 letters of benjaMIN form to be MIN, like his brother raMON he was known as El MON. Its just the last 3 letters of therr name thats all.
DeleteBenjaMIN...
DeleteThank you for the replies...DWW
DeleteNow thats what you call a father and son bonding experience
ReplyDeleteGuns don't kill people,bullets do...Must be nice getting 10 months,anybody else would have gotten the maximum. How come they don't arrest the mother.? How does she pay bills.? She is living with blood money....
ReplyDeleteSnitch?
ReplyDeleteThis guy's dad hatched the Zetas into our world. Ahhh, his familiy won't be around to sing him las mananitas. Poor wittle baby....Freaking psycho freak...who cares about the feelings of this family?
ReplyDeleteThe zetas promised, osiel believed, and the devil got loose...
Delete--It like when le picaron el horno a la monjita hasta que se levanto...
--very smart people just took the cdg to the cleaners...
--They even perverted and corrupted bertie boy moreira, he blamed "some businessmen" for the murder of his son, more than the drug trafficking zetas and polizetas who did the dirty deed...
When they catch Yarrington and he talks. Next may be Eugenio as well as former Mayor of Reynosa. It's not over yet that is for sure. Tony Montana
DeleteHappy Birthday Osiel Cardenas..the DEA agents have a present for you :)
ReplyDeleteNo sympathy....wonder how many lives were lost so he could be driving a 2015 Cadillac Escalade. He got off easy.
ReplyDeleteHe is a Lucky SOB, Me would have been 20 years
ReplyDeletethe U.S. has become worse than Mexico in their prison sentences. narcos should not fear American justice
ReplyDelete“You’re at a crossroads … you need to decide which way you’re going to go,” Hanen told Cardenas Jr.,
ReplyDeleteBull Chit ! He on a path to hell , he probably didnt understand a single word that judge told him . He will most likely end up dead within a few months after he guts out
That's shows his father did not involve him in the family business cuz it's looks and sounds like he's yellow but by not having his father around lets him make poor decisions that's just the way it is!
ReplyDeleteThere is no hope.
ReplyDeleteLos monos están operando el zoológico
These stupid kids trying to be what they are not most real criminals did not have many choices they play the cards they were dealt and made something out of it but this moron has no business doing this dum shit.if he wants to see the upside is zetas didn't capture him and cut him into pieces
ReplyDeleteNadien lo conoce como el mini osiel o más bien nadie le dice asi. Oso is a kid with it all at his disposal. Surrounded by many luxuries and a great mother and siblings. The kid was going to Matamoros to celebrate new years like they do every year. This kid knows nothing about the narco life he's just a grate kid that happens to have a capo as his father. Oso, todos en la familia estamos contigo. Todo va estar bien oso no se me desanimé campeón! They say the united states knows it all about the cartel. Well its obvious they don't because this kid does not traffic arms and has nothing to do with the so called cartel life THAT'S WHY THEY WHERE SO SOFT WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO HIS SENTENCE!!!!, they know the truth, he's a good kid that likes to hunt that's why he had bullets!
ReplyDelete@6:03 pm
DeleteOye pendejo, what is it? First you say "they say the United States knows it all about cartels. Well it's obvious they don't" then you say "they know the truth, he's a good kid that likes to hunt"
Eres un pendejo bien echo
The truth hear is that the government really just knows what they hear and are told about by snitches' and they have never heard about this kid being involved that's why they know THAT he has nothing to do with the drug trade...... Pendejo tu idiota por creer todo lo que lees. La verdad aquí es obvio! No saben ni madre todo lo que leen es una farsa. Solo por tener el mismo nombre de su padre quien armar un show. Por favor no hay necesidad para traficar armas o drogas.
DeleteThe illuminati know sarcasm when they see it, for others, please label your sarcasms, sarcasm warnings need to be invented for the innocent...
DeleteThe government is all bullshit they are making All this up about oso it's tru what 6:03 is saying!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah,didn't think of it like that?
ReplyDeleteThat makes a lot of sense,really..
Your not stupid,your intelligent,can't get nothing past you,like the judge giving him 10 months because only Mexicans were going to be hurt.
Err,but it was a Mexican bringing them into Mexico?Its not their fault.
It was a Mexican sneakin them into Mexico big brain..Or,maybe,he's working for DEA?Oohh,could be?
ReplyDeleteIt's all a dastardly plot against poor old Mexico,everyone's against Mexico,they are,really..
Because its part of a cycle named supply and demand .. common we have all heard and should know this .. drugs go up north , weapons and cash go back south . America buys drugs ... America supplys guns and ammo . YOU SHOULD CARE.
ReplyDeleteTranquilo. Este joven hace un error y 10 meses estabien POR un lecione. Ya joven! Solo 10 mesitas mas. Entiendes joven. Eras Grande ya! Comprende. Tomes Su lecione Como hombre. Explico! Y sigues bien despues. Ok. Saludos. Tony Montana
ReplyDeleteno escribir sabes smh.
DeleteOsielito did not get his shit in china, or in mexico, he got caught on the US and he got off easy, what is the pendejo problem?
ReplyDelete--Drug money gets laundered and offshored, but not for mexicans, ask hsbc, bcci, aig, or any other big world Bank how you can work it out...
10 months in supermax he is either gonna come out traumatized and scared to never commit a crime or he will be worse supermax is no joke people go crazy a few weeks in the hole imagine there.
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