The drug lord is registered as one of the 10 most wanted fugitives on the FBI's list and the U.S. government was offering one million dollars to anyone who provided information leading to his arrest.
José Rodolfo Villarreal Hernández aka El Gato, was arrested tonight by members of the Attorney General's Office in Atizapán de Zaragoza.
The subject is identified as the leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel in the municipality of San Pedro, is registered as one of the 10 most wanted fugitives on the FBI's list and the U.S. government offered one million dollars to anyone who provided information leading to his capture.
José Rodolfo Villarreal Hernández, "El Gato".
Interpol, the Navy, the National Anti-Kidnapping Coordination, and elements of the Nuevo Leon State Investigation Agency participated in this arrest.
Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez, who is wanted for allegedly ordering his associates to track down and murder a man in Southlake, Texas, has been added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The State Department's Transnational Organized Crime Reward Program is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading directly to his arrest.
Villarreal-Hernandez holds an active leadership position in the Beltran Leyva Drug Trafficking Organization within the San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico region. He is also believed to be responsible for numerous murders in Mexico.
The 43-year-old Texas murder victim was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of his vehicle outside an upscale shopping center in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb on May 22, 2013. His wife was standing near the driver's side door when her husband was killed. The brazen ambush occurred in the afternoon hours when the shopping center was packed with shoppers.
According to evidence and testimony gathered in the trials of those accused of tracking and killing the man, Villarreal-Hernandez ordered and financed a multi-year effort to find and surveil the victim and then kill him. Investigators believe Villarreal-Hernandez had a long-standing personal grudge against the victim.
Several of the people involved in tracking and killing the victim have already pleaded guilty, been tried and convicted, or are awaiting trial in federal court.
"The fact that Villarreal-Hernandez was willing to send people into the United States to track someone within the United States and then execute that person in a Texas neighborhood, we must set an example that this will not be tolerated," said Special. Agent Gary Koenig.
Koenig has been investigating Villarreal-Hernandez with the FBI's Dallas Field Office since the shooting occurred in 2013. El Gato's apparent role in drug trafficking into the United States and evidence linking him to more than 10 murders in Mexico have made the case a top priority. for U.S. and Mexican authorities. "He's a ruthless guy," Koenig said.
The FBI and Mexican authorities feel that the publicity of the Ten Most Wanted list and such a large reward will help generate the leads they need to bring El Gato to justice.
The FBI considered Jose Rodolfo Villarreal Hernandez, "El Gato" to be extremely dangerous.
San Pedro, Nuevo León
Video is for illustrative purposes
El Raton snitched
ReplyDeleteDummy he is captured.
DeleteEl Raton aka El canary that man is singing away more arrest to come in the near future
DeleteMore arrests coming up lmao la rata showing his true colors
DeleteHow are they even connected lol
DeleteBig news. One of the most important players in the Monterrey area’s criminal underworld. Thanks for the share, Sol.
ReplyDeleteReally, wow. El Gato Fritas
DeleteThanks @Sol
Texas has a place for him in Livingston. It's called death row.
ReplyDeleteMexico doesn’t agree to extradite criminals if they face the death penalty. It is part of the extradition treaty. If the US ever kills someone that Mexico sent to them, that person would be the last sent.
Delete9:33 I suspect he’ll end up in Club Fed since the assassins crossed an international border to murder a Fed witness - but nice thought about death row in Huntsville!
Delete9:37 you have to read Detroit sentences better. He said he should be put on death row, he never said he is to be killed.😂
DeleteSources are saying he was extradited too. Can you confirm? Apparently he was transported to the airport and immediately flown to the US. If so, article should read “and Extradited to US”. Thnx Sol/bb.
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DeleteYou need to read the articles a little bit better.
True he was flown to the airport, it was never a fact that he was flown to USA .
Extradition paperwork from the courts have to be made first.
He was flown to Mexico City.
That won't happen, Mexico has a treaty that in order to provide extradition To USA, they have to guarantee no death penalty will be applied
ReplyDeleteThat's a damn shame, USAF should drop a nuke on Jesus Maria, and forget about it. Ovidio and Los Chapitos as a whole are responsible for the death of More Americans than the all the soldiers lost in Iraq Afghanistan Vietnam Korea and more..
DeleteInteresting how Mexico caught Chapo for Obama and now Oviedo and El Gato for Biden.
ReplyDeleteActually it was Trump that received Chapo. Not Obama.
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DeleteI need you to check US History 101.
I don’t need to I lived through it dumb ass. He was arrested in Jan 16. Trump got elected that year. He wasn’t extradited until towards the end of the year. Trump received him like I said. Don’t comment unless you know what your speaking on it makes you look uneducated and dumb. Ijs
Delete6:50 Chapo was turned over/extradited to the USA on January 19, 2017, the last full day of the Obama administration. This was purposely done by EPN to not give any credit to Trump. Look it up
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ReplyDeletePathetic Mexico won’t allow his extradition unless death penalty off table in Texas
ReplyDeleteI agree. But rules are rules, maybe if you can find a way to get on the same cell block as Ovidio and then shank him slowly with a a Turkeybone Shank, let him bleed and then rub chlorine crystals and hot sauce in it - then justice will be served and we can move on to execute the next Raton in line
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The problem with rats besides all the snitching is that they reproduce rapidly, kill their babies, eat their husbands, and lie around pressing the lever for more meth pellets all day long
Nomore Tom and Jerry for 2023
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DeleteWas in San Pedro Garza last year
ReplyDeleteIncredible place, of course he was still there all these years later
He was captured in Estado de México
ReplyDeleteYou know when the Latin Kings of Chicago and New York chant "ah Monterrey ". Then it is time when you know how important this part of the world is to all the land. As if it's the 1st brazen attack y todo ese pedo! It's just a tight machinery matcheen in the Golfo De Mexico.
ReplyDeleteThey chant amor de Rey dumbass
DeleteThe fact the US had Guerrero in witness protection knowing he aided Osiel and had many families in Mexico killed because of his own ambition still baffles me. And how the FBI calling this guy ruthless for having Guerrero killed because he killed his dad is absurd and outrageous.
ReplyDeleteFuck el gato and his dead dad.
DeleteGuerrero was never in WitSec. He was an attorney from Mexico that gave up some information on at least the Gulf Cartel. I'm not aware of him giving up any significant information. He was allowed to stay in the U.S. because he was an informant and his life was in jeopardy.
DeleteHe was living in Texas when he was located by Gato and moved to Florida and then back to Texas. He was tracked down because his wife kept calling her family in Mexico. I don't know why he moved back to Texas. He would probably be alive today if he moved further north and lived a more discreet lifestyle and taken away his wife's phone.
If Guerrero wasn’t in Witness Protection, even worse… the US gave safe harbor to a criminal who was responsible for lots of deaths in Mexico, per 2:52. Guerrero should have faced a long sentence in the US. But the US tends to have a soft side for criminals that benefit them. El Gato did what any man with power, money, and a degree of liking for revenge would do.
DeleteI'm not aware of Guerrero being in the game. He was Osiel's attorney which gave him privy to some cartel intel, but I don't believe that it was a lot. Also, Osiel was probably feeding him intel on opposing groups to pass on to authorities.
DeleteGuerrero may have had family in the game because either they had a family member of Gato's beheaded or had someone they know carry out the beheading in retaliation for Guerrero's murder.
The attorney had something to do with 50 million in cash and assets being turned over to United States government as part of osiels deal. That may have had something to do with him being killed like he was. I inserted link at bottom of page to give a little more context.
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@Detroit - Guerrero played a key role in the Gulf Cartel in the early 2000s and wasn't just Osiel's attorney. When Osiel was in Altiplano, Guerrero was responsible for communicating his orders to top CDG/Zetas members, as well as keeping tabs on debts, CDG properties, etc. Osiel met Guerrero through Gilberto Garcia Mena AKA El June.
DeleteGuerrero was arrested by the UEDO in 2002, shortly after Francisco José Flores Iruegas (another CDG attorney) was killed. He was released a few days later and fled to the US for good.
Guerrero's brother Armando Guerrero Chapa was a CDG member in China, NL.
Source: Detailed in Ravelo's book Narcoabogados, Cedillo's Guerras ocultas del narco, and El Norte print archives. Happy to email you the excerpts if you need them!
Thanks MX. I'm not on top of things as well as the contributers here. I work 6-7 days a week so can't always stay on top of things like I would like to. I go weeks or months without following narco news so there are huge gaps in my understanding of what is going on. That's why i appreciate the contributers here. I can get fragments of what's occurring in Mexico when I am working long hours to stay somewhat up to date.
Delete@Detrioit - No worries whatsoever. I didn't mean for my comment to come across in a condescending way, I apologize if it did (I was typing with my phone).
DeleteI wish I had time to be more active around here too. Thanks for reading and commenting. See you around.
2:52 on point
ReplyDeleteCdg and zetas off shoots getting ready to pounce on this guys territory.
ReplyDeleteThis son of a bitch killed a family friend when said family friend was closing on purchasing of a ranch in China NL. All because he wanted it and didn’t buy it first. I hope he rots
ReplyDeleteGuerrero or Gato? Guerrero had property in China, NL, and I knew of someone who sold a property to Osiel's crew back in the day under duress. Osiel hid there for extended periods of time after the 1999 standoff in Moros.
DeleteEl Gato. He killed a guy know as el Kilo. Kilo was buying rancho San Antonio that’s right on the boundary of Terán and China. I believe it was in mid to late 2020 and Kilo’s was killed either on the day of closing or right before/after that. Conveniently shortly after that, the land was purchase under a family member’s name of el gato is what I’ve been told, but it’s el gatos.
DeleteThanks for sharing 9:28.
Deletehttps://www.axios.com/2023/01/08/mexican-cartel-fbi-dallas-murder-arrest. That’s the link I found that provides a little context into the whole situation.
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