A bodyguard who officials say later rose to become one of the high-ranking leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel made his first appearance in San Diego federal court Friday, a day after arriving from Amsterdam under heavy security.
Disguises Failed Chino
Jose Arechiga Gamboa, 34, who is known by his nickname “El Chino Antrax,” had gone to extremes to avoid apprehension before his arrest in the Netherlands six months ago, authorities said.
He traveled under the name of a deceased Mexican man, used a fraudulent passport, underwent significant plastic surgery and tried to alter his fingerprints, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. But his identity couldn’t be hidden from forensic techniques used by U.S. law enforcement, officials said.
On Friday during his arraignment, Arechiga uttered only “Yeah” when U.S. District Judge Mitchell Dembin asked him to verify his true identity. Arechiga declined to seek bail Friday at a brief hearing held under heavy security in San Diego. He remains in federal custody.
Arechiga is charged with conspiracy to import methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana.
Arechiga started out as a bodyguard for the cartel and led a group called “El Antrax,” named after the deadly disease, that provided security for drug shipments and enforced compliance through violence, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, referring to documents filed in support of his extradition.
He later rose to become a high-level leader in the cartel, officials said.
He was indicted by a San Diego federal grand jury on Dec. 20 and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Ten days later, he was captured in Amsterdam while getting off a flight from Mexico City.
Ten days later, he was captured in Amsterdam while getting off a flight from Mexico City.
Arechiga contested the extradition, forcing U.S. officials to go through formal extradition proceedings, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman. A Dutch court considered the request and authorized his transfer to U.S. custody on May 28.
Arechiga did not appeal that ruling. He was flown here under the careful watch of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Observers at the hearing Friday had to go through a secondary metal detector and search outside the courtroom. A group of women identified by an attorney as family members sat in a middle row.
The judge ordered Arechiga be held without bail, although that decision can be reviewed at a later date should his lawyer requests it.
Arechiga followed the brief proceeding with a furrowed brow, then winked at someone in the audience before being led away.
Sinaloa Cartel Investigations
Authorities in San Diego have been chipping away at the Sinaloa cartel with numerous related indictments recently, as the group has become more powerful in the region with the fall of the Arellano-Felix drug trafficking organization.
The elusive kingpin of the cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was captured in February on drug charges in Mexico. He is also charged in the United States, including on an indictment out of San Diego. His arrest leaves the cartel in the hands of co-leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who remains at large.
Zambada’s 24-year-old son, Serafin Zambada, is in custody on a drug trafficking indictment in San Diego, following his November arrest crossing from Mexico into Nogales, Ariz.
And court records show other local related investigations involving dozens of people, 125 wiretaps and 40 to 50 drug seizures inside and outside the U.S., Braverman said in a previous hearing.
plea for fifteen, out in ten, osiel pled for 25 and paid about 250 million dollars plus he had to cry publicly and believably in front of everybody...
ReplyDeletethe zetas deserve NO deals for all the murders they carried on with extreme cruelty and lack of regard for their victims, just like some policias de rancho gone crazy, total nazi style stupid, one more reason to keep the army away from any civil business on the country...
I read the title wile being drunk and I was Like fuck I have too read this.....
ReplyDeleteSame here hahaha cds all day free chino kill vicentillo snitch ass motherfucker hes going to testify against chino and chapo and even his own dad when he gets captured!!!
DeleteSo what happened to Gente Nueva? Are they still around? One thing is for sure if you want to survive in the Mexican drug trade you can't post everything you do on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteYeah I believe they're still handling business,but they go by Genre Vieja now.
DeleteChapo snitched on him so he snitched on chapo
ReplyDeleteThat's very true,kind of like a double karma,pooooow!
DeleteLet the snitching begin .... they forgot to mention that in their corridos of lies..
ReplyDeleteEveryone turned their back on chapo guzman
ReplyDeleteWhere is a his drastic plastic surgery after photo!?!?!?!?!?!?
ReplyDeleteNow he looks like Michael Jackson!
DeleteREADERS: There are no post surgery fotos. Federal court seldom releases mugs. and are not accessible by the public. They could but typically do not. don't worry we will see them sooner or later
ReplyDeleteChivis, what about the still shot when he is smiling next to Paris Hilton? Isn't that a post serg pic?
DeleteQue La Marina Se Revento Al 2 Letras En Sinaloa???
ReplyDeleteEmpezo la resia mazisa para los 2 lados.
@ Chivis u need to go to san diego then go to the court house when he has court. Thatz when u tell them ur his hot wife go into court house then secretly take photos of him dat easy lol
ReplyDeleteso we got to see vicente but not this guy?
ReplyDeleteI still think that he was given up by someone inside his own organization because he became too "Hollywood". Chicas, champagne, fast cars will do that to you. El que vive formal siembra cosecha y la goza pero el q se vuelve culebra muy pronto cai a la fosa.
ReplyDelete....words of Chalino Sanchez...
DeleteThe Feds can deemed anyone a national security threat and make all his archives/information/documents top secret and strictly confidential. Has anyone seen a recent picture of Ben A.F., Tigrillo A.F., Guero Palma, Carlos Ledher or Osiel Cardenas....
ReplyDeleteThanks Chivis!
ReplyDeleteFree Dr. Mireles!!!!!
regarding the identity of the person with paris hilton, I have no clue if it is chino antrax, could be, i just posted those LV photos for you
ReplyDeleterumors say it's el piolin from radio station 103.5
DeleteLol that doesn't look at all like el piolin lmfao
DeleteWatch the video on youtube, looks like chino, or at least off the only picture they have of him
DeleteIt is chino
Delete@12:30 jajajaja I would need those ginormous ass and boob implants for starters...
ReplyDeleteActually I am trying to talk J into going to court, if he doesn't I may go at least a couple days. as for photos however, your cell would be quickly confiscated and they are VERY strict. If I went I could at least see what he looks like and maybe take photos of the women who go in support.
Ya se le cargó la chingada al Chino Ántrax. Ahora si no va salirse con la suya. Lo única que espera es la bienvenida de los demás reos que están buscando una novia.
ReplyDeleteChivis, when is the next court date. I'm simply a reader but if I'm given the info on the date and where to go, maybe I can go and get whatever I can get for you.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. government will find anyone its a given. Once they have your picture and your family or your DNA your pretty much sunk. Cartel king pins should know this by now.
ReplyDelete11:16
ReplyDeletewhacha talkin bout willis???
Named after the disease Anthrax huh? I wasn't aware one could contract a anthrax lmfao. Anthrax is a biological weapon, not a disease Chivis.
ReplyDelete@July 12, 9:57pm
DeleteAnthrax IS a disease, it exist in nature, but it could be weaponized and used as a biological weapon as indeed it has.
-Junius
"Arechiga diclined to seek bail" that's cause the poor bastard knows that the safest place for him is behind bars, even if he gets rape. He'll be happy as long as they try killing his a$$
ReplyDeleteFree Dr. Mireles!!!
ReplyDeleteLove your work Chivis!
Thank you so much, is there any information about Dr. Mireles? I really hate to ask but everyday I wake up and hope to see Dr. Mireles has been freed!!!! I hope the good Lord guides him on his journey. I wish myself and all of Mexico has half the Balls he does. # FREE DR. MIRELES
Mireles won't get out unless he gives up and leaves Mexico
DeleteTus buenas intenciones se confunden con sarcasmo, pero yo tmb quisiera q liberaran al mireles compa pero tu entusiasmo es irritante porque creo que ignoras el grado de corruptela en el gob. El mireles como prisionero politico es un enemigo pal estado. Solo espero que mireles use su tiempo en la carcel para articular sus ideas y definirlas y que la gente aqui afuera se mueva y manifieste ese entusiasmo en accion directa
Delete@Chivis. I live in San Diego. Im 10 minutes from the federal court house. If you can get the information on Chinos next court hearing I can most certainty go down there.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAAHH...WHERE ALLYOU CDS LOVERS NOW...OH YEAH...VISITING CHAPO WHILE HE CRYS AND SNITCHES IN MAX PRISON!! ONG,SO FUNNY!
ReplyDelete...por andar de payaso.
ReplyDeleteCdj will be back on top the guys they got are small time exept for amados son all the big players are out and amados son was not even cdj.
ReplyDeleteCdj aren't small timers dude you have it all wrong cdj has power that's why they still run Juarez I pretty sure viceroy has all the political connections his big bro amado left him.
DeleteCdj is been up there Idk what your getting at but these dudes don't play cdj is deep into there territory a lot of political connection and in navolato sinaloa also low key people that's why El jaguar got whacked in navolato because he kidnapped and killed Jose Cruz carrillo.
DeleteThe CDJ Sureste Cell will be back to teach Z, golfas and chinaloas on how to operate a real paramilitary group.
DeleteMore like the chinolas are showing everyone else how to operate. Viceroy still has the linces and there chinolas dont forget it
DeleteDeath penalty to the gang banger piece of shit, useless scum.
ReplyDeleteJuly 13, 2014 at 7:53 AM
ReplyDeleteDid you just copy and past that because all of those comments seem to be very similar and if someone were to visit Chapo in prison (which they can't unless they are family) they could learn a lot. Snitch or not Chapo is a smart guy and knows his stuff.
He can teach us how to snitch since that's how he got so big
DeletePuro CDS. al Chino lo entregaron por estar poniendo fotos en Instagram y matando gente sin permiso de arriba (igual q su maestro MP) disfrasado de payaso.. pero Culican sige protegida Puro grupo operativo los Avengers al 1000
ReplyDelete10.4 el Fantasma
El fantasma from los Avengers huh? I guess the fantastic four is kinda limiting. What's next el Hombre de Hierro 57, El Verde 1, Comandante América de los Avengers al 10% lol
DeleteComo dise pendejadas compa
DeleteWhat about el chapo sons ? Ivan and alfredito ? They all on twitter and instagram too.
ReplyDeletechivaaa! no plastic surgery for you, you have enough blessings already.
ReplyDeleteif you could use a little less asphalt paint for eyeliner, you would be perfect, maybe for christmas...
--regarding willis, well, at least we got you wondering and asking questions, away from the trodden path...
--love you bunches!
BIGGEST SNITCHES ARE ZAMBADAS
ReplyDeleteIgnorance is bliss.
DeleteArechiga should be called AreCHINGA! Because this payaso is screwed. He will be singing like a jaybird. Hmmm let's see , probably Mayito Gordito and El Cheo and the rest of Abthrax will be falling like a stack set of dominoes. Justice rolls slow, but when it comes to inditements, they roll fast. viva mexico Libre sin Narco Terroristas !
ReplyDeleteWhat i ment to say about cdj is that the people from cdj that have been arrested are not the big fish i know the patrones were keeping a low profile i hope they drop the zetas and work like before.
ReplyDeleteChino Antrax sketch drawing in court.
ReplyDeletehttp://movil.informador.com.mx/mexico/2014/537843/6/el-chino-antrax-se-declara-no-culpable-en-eu.htm
Pictures have been blurred out by our USA Government. They are the only ones who have the authority to have almost all photos blurred out with an image of Chino, do to a National Security threat. The who's who is already known by the DEA and CIA along with locations of safe houses, family, etc... For those who are wondering about his next court date... scheduled to appear in court again for a motion hearing conducted by federal judge Dana Makoto Sabraw on 22 August 2014... Bring some Borderland Beat Shirts please along with some Free The Doctor shirts... C you there...
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