Top photo: Jesús Labra Avilés
Bottom photo: Armando Martínez Duarte
Duarte head of security for the Tijuana Cartel sentenced to 8 years in U.S. prison
April 6, 2010
San Diego, CA (HNNUSA) - On Monday, U.S. federal San Diego District Judge Larry Burns sentenced Jesús "El Chuy" Labra Avilés, 61, the former financial mastermind and co-founder of the Arellano-Félix Organization, known as the Tijuana drug cartel to 40 years in a federal prison. Actually, Judge Burns sentenced Avilés to life in prison, since he won"t be eligible to be released until the age of 101.
Last October, Avilés pleaded guilty to marijuana and cocaine drug trafficking charges. He was arrested by Mexican military police in 2000 and was extradited to the U.S. in 2007 to face federal charges, according to an unsealed indictment in 2003.
Armando Martínez Duarte, 55, aka "El Loco Duarte" was also sentenced to 8 years and 3 months in federal prison. Duarte was the head of security for the Arrellano-Félix Organization and was a federal Mexicali police commander in the Mexican state of Baja California for the Mexican Attorney General's Office. In 1983, he received his U.S. residency and had intended in 1989 to become a federal agent by taking credited courses at the Arizona Western College before getting arrested and indicted along with Avilés. Federal prosecutors were asking for a sentence of 20 years.
Still wanted by the U.S. government, Kingpin Benjamin Arellano-Félix assumed leadership of the Arellano-Félix organization after Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo was arrested in 1989 for his involvement of the murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. Benjamin manages and oversees all of the cartel's drug trafficking operations, according to a federal 10 count indictment unseal in 2000.
The indictment alleged conspiracy, money laundering, controlled substance trafficking, kidnapping and murdering rival drug traffickers, informants and law enforcement officers, aiding and abetting and operating a criminal organization of drug smuggling. Benjamin Arellano-Felix has also been included in the $2 million reward offered for information leading to the arrest, and is on the FBI's most wanted list.
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Bottom photo: Armando Martínez Duarte
Duarte head of security for the Tijuana Cartel sentenced to 8 years in U.S. prison
April 6, 2010
San Diego, CA (HNNUSA) - On Monday, U.S. federal San Diego District Judge Larry Burns sentenced Jesús "El Chuy" Labra Avilés, 61, the former financial mastermind and co-founder of the Arellano-Félix Organization, known as the Tijuana drug cartel to 40 years in a federal prison. Actually, Judge Burns sentenced Avilés to life in prison, since he won"t be eligible to be released until the age of 101.
Last October, Avilés pleaded guilty to marijuana and cocaine drug trafficking charges. He was arrested by Mexican military police in 2000 and was extradited to the U.S. in 2007 to face federal charges, according to an unsealed indictment in 2003.
Armando Martínez Duarte, 55, aka "El Loco Duarte" was also sentenced to 8 years and 3 months in federal prison. Duarte was the head of security for the Arrellano-Félix Organization and was a federal Mexicali police commander in the Mexican state of Baja California for the Mexican Attorney General's Office. In 1983, he received his U.S. residency and had intended in 1989 to become a federal agent by taking credited courses at the Arizona Western College before getting arrested and indicted along with Avilés. Federal prosecutors were asking for a sentence of 20 years.
Still wanted by the U.S. government, Kingpin Benjamin Arellano-Félix assumed leadership of the Arellano-Félix organization after Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo was arrested in 1989 for his involvement of the murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. Benjamin manages and oversees all of the cartel's drug trafficking operations, according to a federal 10 count indictment unseal in 2000.
The indictment alleged conspiracy, money laundering, controlled substance trafficking, kidnapping and murdering rival drug traffickers, informants and law enforcement officers, aiding and abetting and operating a criminal organization of drug smuggling. Benjamin Arellano-Felix has also been included in the $2 million reward offered for information leading to the arrest, and is on the FBI's most wanted list.
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