Mica with information translated from elUniversal.
Erick Valencia Salazar, better known as “El 85,” the co-founder of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and a former associate of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, a.k.a. “El Mencho,” has successfully persuaded a federal judge to put a temporary stop to his extradition to the United States. The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs had previously approved the extradition in August.
Judge Alfonso Alexander López Moreno, serving in the Fifth District for Amparo and Federal Trials in the State of Mexico, granted “El 85” a full suspension of the amparo lawsuit he had recently filed to prevent his prosecution in the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Columbia on drug trafficking charges spanning from 2003 to 2008. The judge’s ruling was based on specific articles in the Amparo Law, leading to the definitive suspension of the extradition process.
As a result, the extradition agreement set on August 16, 2023, will remain on hold until the amparo case is fully settled. Back in May 2018, U.S. Federal Judge James E. Boasberg had greenlit the arrest of “El 85” for his supposed role in drug trafficking activities, citing allegations of moving at least five kilograms of cocaine from Mexico into the United States between 2003 and 2018. Valencia Salazar was subsequently apprehended in September 2022, during his vacation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, on an extradition arrest warrant executed by the Mexican Attorney General’s Office.
Post his falling-out with “El Mencho,” Valencia Salazar allied himself with the New Plaza Cartel, established by Enrique Sánchez Martínez or “El Cholo,” who was later assassinated by the CJNG in March 2021.
He blames his initial 2012 arrest on a betrayal by “El Mencho,” claiming it was an effort to seize full control over the CJNG.
The first time to read he was on vacation when arrested. Strange because I am 95% sure he had a distribution amount of Fent pills on him.
Thanks for reading!
Mica
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