Mexico is offering a 30 million pesos ($1.56 million) reward for information leading to the arrest of drug lord Nemesio Oseguera whose cartel is blamed for driving heroin shipments to the United States , the attorney general said on Wednesday .
Known as “ El Mencho ,” Oseguera has risen to become Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord after Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman was extradited to the United States last year to face trial.
In March , U.S. agents in Chicago named El Mencho public enemy No. 1 and blamed his gang for using “extreme violence” to expand their share of the heroin trade. The United States is offering $5 million for information leading to his capture. For more detailed information, you may consult the fugitives section of the DEA .
Oseguera’s Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion is considered by authorities to be the most powerful Mexican drug cartel, with operations in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia .
The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion “is known to produce multi-hundred kilogram quantities of methamphetamine and heroin, and traffics in multi-ton quantities of cocaine,” according to the U.S. Department of State .
Mexico arrested Oseguera’s wife in May on charges of laundering funds for his cartel.
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