Rosalinda González Valencia, the wife of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias
El Mencho
, leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, was arrested this Monday in Zapopan, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, the National Defense Secretariat reported.
"Elements of the Mexican Army managed to locate, identify and arrest Rosalinda" N ", which is considered a
significant blow to the financial structure of organized crime in the state of Jalisco,"
said the Secretariat of the National defense.
The Mexican authorities, including the Army, the Attorney General's Office and the National Intelligence Center, had issued an arrest warrant against González Valencia for various crimes by linking her to the illicit financial operation of a criminal group organized.
The detainee was placed at the disposal of the authorities at the Federal Center for Social Readaptation No. 16 CPS Femenil Morelos in Coatlán del Río, in the state of Morelos.
González, sister of José
La Chepa
González Valencia, alleged leader of the Los Cuinis drug smuggling gang, extradited to the United States from Brazil on November 12 to be tried,
had
already
been arrested in May 2018 in a luxurious apartment.
charged with money laundering and organized crime.