The feds have him shaken and stirred.
A Mexican drug cartel boss with an affinity for goofy nicknames like “James Bond,” “Xmen” and “Diabolic” is now behind bars after getting extradited to the US and locked up by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.
Jesus Ricardo Patron Sanchez, 39, was recognized by the feds as boss of the H-2, a Sinaloa cartel trafficking operation that shipped tons of heroin, cocaine, meth and different medicine to the US in month-to-month deliveries since at the least 2013, the US Lawyer’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York mentioned Monday.
“Sanchez was one of the principal leaders of the H-2 Drug Trafficking Organization, a brutally violent transnational criminal organization that flooded American streets with dangerous drugs and protected its operations through murder and corruption,” US Lawyer John Durham mentioned in a press release.
“This office is committed to working with its federal and international partners to bring leaders of cartels and transnational criminal organizations to justice in the United States and to hold them accountable for the death and destruction they have unleashed here and abroad,” Durham mentioned.
Federal prosecutors mentioned Sanchez took over the profitable trafficking operation after his brother, Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez, was killed in 2017.
The ascension earned Sanchez yet one more nickname — “H-3.”
That’s as a result of the cartel was based by Hector Beltran-Leyva, the unique “H,” in response to prosecutors. When the reins had been turned over to the elder Sanchez, he was nicknamed “H-2,” whereas his child brother acquired to be often known as “H-3” when he took over the operation.
As soon as in cost, Sanchez continued to maneuver medicine into the US whereas finishing up cash laundering operations and conspiring to kill rivals and others who threatened the operation, prosecutors mentioned.
However the operations took a success lately as federal prosecutors and the Drug Enforcement Administration went after Sanchez, who was arrested in Mexico in 2019, and extradited to the US on Friday.
He was arraigned Saturday and charged with main a prison enterprise, conspiracy to distribute large-scale narcotics and utilizing firearms in reference to narcotics offenses, the US Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned.
