Mexican cartel leader who faked death arrested in California

A high-ranking Mexican cartel person who faked his decease was arrested successful California, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa, 37, was arrested successful Riverside, Calif. connected Tuesday, the feds said. He was charged with planetary cause trafficking and wealth laundering.

He had been surviving nether a phony identity.

Gutierrez-Ochoa, who is known arsenic Gaucho, is simply a subordinate of the Jalisco New Generation cartel and the son-in-law of the cartel’s person Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. The State Department is offering $10 cardinal for information that leads to Cervantes’ capture.

Prosecutors allege Gutierrez-Ochoa faked his decease to evade Mexican authorities, and went to the U.S. to beryllium with his woman and to behaviour cartel organisation stateside. El Mencho assisted by spreading gossip that Gutierrez-Ochoa had been killed by the cartel for lying.

“Defeating the 2 cartels liable for the deadly cause situation successful the United States is the Drug Enforcement Administration’s apical operational priority, and with the apprehension of Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa, we are overmuch closer,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said successful a statement.