"El Lobo" Valencia and "El Pilo" Testify as the Trial of "El Menchito" Begins
“Socalj” for Borderland Beat
During the first day of trial, a former leader of the Milenio Cartel said he had known Ruben Oseguera González since 2005 when “El Menchito” was 15, he was introduced by the father, “El Mencho,” during a meeting in Guadalajara.
Mencho was already trafficking marijuana and cocaine, “El Lobo” Valencia said that in 2008 the father and son proposed producing methamphetamine.
Who is “El Lobo?”
Oscar Orlando Nava Valencia, known as “El Lobo,” 52 years old, served as the leader of Los Valencia or the Milenio Cartel. In addition, he was one of the closest collaborators of Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, better known as “Nacho” Coronel, who in turn served as one of the main operators of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel (BLO).
Originally from of Aguililla, in Michoacán, he assumed the leadership of “Los Valencia” after the arrest of his uncle Armando Valencia Cornelio, “El Maradona,” in August 2003, in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
“El Lobo” and his brother, Juan Nava Valencia, “El Tigre,” were in charge of planning and transporting cocaine shipments from Central and South American countries, through shipments that had as their final destination the port of Manzanillo, Colima, from where it was sent to the United States.
At that time, the Oseguera clan was part of an armed wing of the defunct cartel and directed several drug dealing operations.
According to the newspaper Milenio, which reported the incident on December 1, 2023, Nava Valencia would remain in the United States, as part of the protected witness program, along with his wife and children, who were already in that country.
“In accordance with the agreement signed with the Department of Justice [of the United States], ‘El Lobo’ will remain available to the authorities to cooperate in future cases, as he did with Genaro García Luna and one of Los Cuinis,” the same newspaper said.
During his questioning session, defense attorney Florian Miedel focused on “El Lobo’s” criminal past and also on the fact that since he was arrested – from 2011 to 2020 – he never mentioned García Luna’s name during the dozens of meetings he had with US security agents and prosecutors.
However, Nava Valencia tried to justify himself by saying, on the one hand, that the United States Attorney’s Office did not ask him specifically about García Luna until 2020 and, on the other hand, he said that he was afraid of possible reprisals against his family.
However, Miedel noted that in 2022, “El Lobo” told US security agents that he was retracting his statements regarding García Luna and that he had not met him, although after speaking with them, he decided to continue with his original testimony.
García Luna’s lawyers maintain that the Eastern District Attorney’s Office of New York has no “objective” evidence against their client, such as documents, recordings or videos, and that they are based on the testimonies of criminals, drug traffickers and murderers, who want to take revenge on those responsible for security and reach agreements to get out of prison as soon as possible.
“El Lobo” Nava Valencia concluded his testimony, with remarks from “El Menchito’s” lawyer about how he took advantage of all his collaboration to be free after being a prominent drug trafficker.
“El Pilo” Testimony
The Milenio Cartel split into two in 2010 following the death of “Nacho” Coronel. Elpidio Ramírez, known as “El Pilo,” expected to be the next leader of Milenio, but a faction backed “El Mencho,” giving rise to the CJNG and El Pilo’s La Resistencia who was fighting against them and seeking alliances with other cartels.
According to El Pilo, El Menchito collected drugs and returned money to the Milenio Cartel: “He collected the merchandise that was delivered to Los Cuinis and took the money that Los Cuinis sent us. Many times I was present when they gave him the drugs or he received the money.”
“El Menchito’s” defense revealed that at one point El Pilo said that he thought Oseguera González was too young and did not believe he was involved in drug trafficking.
Judge Beryl A. Howell was the same who sentenced Jessica Oseguera, El Menchito’s sister, to 30 months in prison in 2021. “La Negra” was released in early 2022. Rubén and Jessica were born in California and have Mexican and U.S. passports.
Source: https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/09/el-lobo-valencia-and-el-pilo-testify-as.html
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