"La Barbie", "El Coss", and 11 others Extradited to the United States

by Lucio R. for Borderland Beat

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, aka "La Barbie lost his long fight against extradition today when he along with 13 other narcos was sent to face justice in the United States.  Planes transporting the suspects landed in Tucson for processing.

Cartel del Golfo (CDG) Capo Jorge Costilla Sanchez, known as "El Coss," was also extradited.

Garcia Sota

Another extradited person in the group is Jose Emanuel Garcia Sota, who is charged in the 2011 killing of ICE agent Jaime Zapata in San Luis Potosi.

Early reports indicate a number of those extradited were from the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 "Altiplano" maximum prison now defamed since Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman successfully tunneled his way out of the prison, the first successful escape in it’s history.  Speculation is that the mass extradition resulted from the escape.

El Barbie was arrested in 2010, he faces multiple charges in Georgia, Texas and Louisiana.

From State Department about La Barbie

El Coss

A high-ranking member of the ABL drug trafficking organization and was believed to be responsible for collecting tariffs at all drug plazas controlled by the organization in Mexico. Valdez-Villarreal was Arturo Beltran-Leyva’s most trusted lieutenant and hit man. 

He also led the Fuerzas Armadas de Arturo, a group of assassins responsible for a majority of the killings committed by the drug trafficking organization. He was a key player in the bloody turf war for control of the Interstate 35 smuggling route into the U.S., and, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the person most responsible for pushing the battle into central and southern Mexico.

Valdez-Villarreal is charged in a 1998 two count indictment in the Southern District of Texas and a 2002 two count indictment in the Eastern District of Louisiana. Valdez-Villarreal was arrested by Mexican authorities in August 2010.

El Coss was arrested in 2012 but has charges in Texas for 13 years, including:

Intent to distribute controlled substances; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances; conspiracy to import into the united states from the United Mexican States controlled substances; threatened to assault and murder federal agents; money laundering; aiding and abetting.

In 1999, two U.S. federal agents were stopped at gunpoint in Matamoros by several gunmen of the cartel while conducting an investigation. Among the dozen heavily armed men were Osiel Cárdenas Guillén and Costilla Sánchez. Osiel had been tipped off that the agents were travelling with an informer.  Osiel demanded the agents hand over the informant, but they refused. In the tense standoff, the agents persuaded the gunmen to let them go but Osiel and Costilla Sánchez and the other cartel members earned a U.S. indictment

Jean Baptiste Kingery, an American who allegedly ran a factory making grenades and IEDs to supply to the Sinaloa and other cartels, was among the group extradited.

He was arrested in Mazatlán months later, authorities found components to make hundreds of grenades, including gun powder and pins.  Kingery is expected to make his initial appearance in the District of Arizona on Oct. 1, 2015.

The following defendants were placed in the custody of U.S. Marshals Service late this afternoon.  An additional defendant was also extradited, but the case remains under seal until the defendant’s initial appearance tomorrow.  (Garcia Soto, suspect inthe murder of ICE agent Jaime Zapata)

Luis Umberto Hernandez Celis: conspiracy, drug trafficking, murder in a foreign country, Member of Barrio Azteca, and were charged on March 9, 2011, in Western District of Texas with participating in the March 13, 2010, murders in Juarez, Mexico, of U.S. Consulate employee Leslie Ann Enriquez Catton, her husband Arthur Redelfs and Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, the husband of a U.S. Consulate employee (Texas)

Carlos Montemayor: a La Barbie associate and father-in-law, conspiracy and money laundering. Member of the Sinaloa and Beltran-Leyva Cartels and were charged on June 11, 2010, in the Northern District of Georgia with conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, as well as conspiring to launder money by transporting drug money from the United States into Mexico.

Alberto Nunez-Payan, aka Fresa, Fresco and 97: Member of the Barrio Azteca gang and were charged on March 9, 2011, in Western District of Texas with participating in the March 13, 2010, murders in Juarez, Mexico, of U.S. Consulate employee Leslie Ann Enriquez Catton, her husband Arthur Redelfs and Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, the husband of a U.S. Consulate employee (Texas)

Ricardo Valles de la Rosa aka Chino: member of the Barrio Azteca gang and were charged on March 9, 2011, in Western District of Texas with participating in the March 13, 2010, murders in Juarez, Mexico, of U.S. Consulate employee Leslie Ann Enriquez Catton, her husband Arthur Redelfs and Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, the husband of a U.S. Consulate employee (Texas)  
  
Aureliano Montoya-Pena: , was among 20 defendants charged on Nov. 2, 2011, in the Northern District of Illinois with conspiracy to possess and distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and various other offenses related to transporting millions of dollars in drug proceeds between Chicago and Mexico. (Illinois)  

Julio Cesar Valenzuela-Elizalde, aka The Pilot: was among eight defendants charged on Dec. 19, 2002, in the District of Arizona with an international methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to import a controlled substance (Arizona)

Martin Daniel Castillo-Rascon: was charged on June 12, 2013, in the Western District of Texas with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, conspiracy to import a controlled substance, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, importation of a controlled substance and aiding and abetting  (Texas)

Antonio Gonzales Platas: on the run in Mexico-suspect in Arkansas rape

Antonio Reynoso-Gonzalez: was charged in 1995 in the Southern District of California along with Joaquin Guzman-Loera, aka El Chapo, and 22 others with conspiracy to import and to possess cocaine with intent to distribute.  (California) 

 

  

On the PGR website, Mexico attorney general, Arely Gómez González, reports that in meetings with the US Attorney General,  Loretta Lynch, it has been agreed, to strengthen international cooperation mechanisms and work closely together against organized crime.