How Menchito was captured and his father's warning against partying

Char for Borderland Beat from Reforma and Diario

Mencho scolded his son; Menchito reported that on his last meeting with his father, his father scolded him, demanded that he no longer attend parties because he had become very visible to the authorities

Federal District- The surveillance of a telephone booth and the tracking with geolocation systems of two cellular numbers by the PGR, were key to capture Rubén Oseguera González "El Menchito" or "El Junior", presumed number two of the Cartel Jalisco New Generation.

Aircraft the Army and the Navy sent from Mexico City units of Special Forces, with land vehicles included, in the most absolute secrecy, to prevent leaks and ensure the success of the operation, officials of the Federal Government said.

The Secretariat of National Defense maintained a follow-up to a series of telephone numbers related to the CJNG's commands since last year and one of them received a call from a public telephone number in Colonia Jardines Universidad de Zapopan.

According to investigators, the Army asked the Criminal Investigation Agency of the PGR to monitor the telephone booth and two cell phone numbers; at the same time, undercover agents began to loiter around the booth.

On the night of January 29, one of the cell phones was located in one of the residences near the public telephone, it was static. It was the sign that immediately precipitated the operation of the military and sailors from Mexico City.

At 3:30 the following day, the Special Forces elements entered the residence in which the son of Rubén or Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes "El Mencho", sheltered by two of his bodyguards, was sleeping.

At the sound of the doors, "El Menchito" or "El Junior" jumped out of bed, ran to the patio and climbed up a fence, managing to jump to a neighboring house. His two gunmen did not have the same reaction  and were detained in the residence, without resisting.

The military followed the 23-year-old, who had no chance of escape and gave up, being cornered in the corner of the garden, squatting, arms scraped.

Simultaneously two subjects ran out of another house on the same street.  They were identified as other members of Menchito’s escorts. They rented a property separately.

Before his ministerial declaration, the Army and the AIC interrogated "El Menchito" and told them that he sold a ton of marijuana a month, at a price of 5 or 6 thousand pesos per kilo, that is, 12 tons per year at a cost that goes from 60 to 72 million pesos.

When they asked who it was sold to, he replied "to whoever buys it"; commented that he has seen or knows cocaine, but denied being an intermediary or seller of it.

He had more than 16 million pesos in his house and 700 thousand dollars in cash, money that, he said, was destined for "emergencies".

The young man was very reserved and vague when asked about his father "El Mencho", the capo of the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación. It was not easy to see him; he said that in order to meet his father he had to deal with a whole network of intermediaries who communicated with him to arrange an appointment.

When was the last time you saw him? They asked him.

"Three weeks ago, in the mountains".

From that last meeting, he reported that his father scolded him, demanded that he no longer attend parties because he had become very visible to the authorities, despite the fact that he was driving only a Dodge Charger and a Yukon van, not as flashy as the vehicles of other narco-juniors of drug trafficking.

And do you go partying?

"Well, I think so, that's why they captured me," El Menchito told his captors.

NOTE: Menchito has been arrested and released and rearrested multiple times since 2014.

In 2015 a warrant for arrest was formalized as the court found enough evidence to proceed with prosecution. He was transferred to Altiplano prison on organized crime and bribery charges. The kidnapping charges were suspended. Menchito was also investigated for his alleged participation in the murder of four people at a restaurant in Zapopan in 17 May 2013. 

According to the detainees, Oseguera González planned the attack.