CJNG: Jessica Oseguera, daughter of "Mencho", will be released from prison in April 2022

Jessica Oseguera González has never seen the light at the end of the tunnel so close, because next year she will regain her freedom after serving a 30-month prison sentence.

La Negra , daughter of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes , was sentenced last July in the United States. The sentence was imposed by Judge Beryl A. Howell after the woman accepted her guilt in the crime of managing financial operations related to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

The almost clean criminal record of La Negra and the evidence of her repentance were incentives for the ridiculous sentence that has been handed down to the woman.

At the hearing, the crimes admitted by Oseguera González, who was arrested in February of last year in Washington, USA, were read. According to the accusation, Mencho's daughter is involved in financial operations to launder money from the cartel led by her father.

Prosecutor Brett Reynolds has pointed out that La Negra is complicit in the high levels of violence of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Despite this, he and other US prosecutors asked that the sentence against Jessica Johanna be 51 months in prison.

The US authorities stated that with this sentence they are sending a message to drug traffickers and to the people involved with them that "they will pay for their crimes."

On June 3, the woman's defense requested that her client be released because she had already learned her lesson. The attorney argued that the punishment no longer required incarceration and that Oseguera González could serve a sentence on supervised release.

La Negra, 33, has been a thread in the search for her father, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, el Mencho, a priority objective of the US government, for whom they offer a reward of USD 10 million.

The day of her capture, Oseguera González — who also has United States nationality — was in Washington because she was trying to see her brother, Rubén Oseguera, el Menchito, who was extradited to the United States for drug trafficking crimes.

At the same time that Menchito pleaded not guilty before a federal judge, his sister was handcuffed for her participation in six business entities identified in 2017 by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for supporting and remaining under control of the CJNG.

The woman, who was wearing a Rolex watch, a Louis Vuitton coat and a Hermes bag in which she was carrying a substantial amount of cash, has since been in the custody of US authorities. The cartel led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes has become the most powerful in Mexico, according to a report by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). It has a presence in the United States, Africa, Europe and Asia.

The sentence comes a day after another Mexican woman pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. Emma Coronel, wife of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, signed her guilty plea on Thursday for the crimes of drug trafficking, money laundering, and the management of companies related to the Sinaloa Cartel.

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The daughter of "Mencho" was sentenced in the US to 30 months in prison