Reality surpasses reality, from faking his death to living in California with another identity, it was the decision that had the greatest impact on the life of Cristian Fernando Gutiérrez Ochoa37 years old, who is identified by US authorities as member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and son-in-law by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho” leader of the most powerful criminal organization in Mexico and with a global presence.
Gutiérrez Ochoa, alias “El Guacho”, was arrested on last November 19 in Riverside, Californiaand according to judicial information, he is one of the members of high rank who was part of the criminal structure of the four letters carteland who would have been involved in the coordination for the importation of drugs and methamphetamine into the United States.
“El Guacho” would be the brother of Luis Fernando Gutiérrez Ochoa, alias “El Tolín”who was identified as another son-in-law of “El Mencho”, who was arrested in an exclusive residential area of Nayarit, inside the El Tigre golf club, in 2018.
The information available to the US authorities suggests that Gutiérrez Ochoa, He began his criminal career with the CJNG in 2014a decade ago, little by little he rose through the organization until he became responsible for personally coordinating the transportation and distribution of approximately 40 thousand kilograms of methamphetamine and approximately 2 thousand kilograms of cocaine from Mexico to the United States.
However, Drug trafficking was not the only duty that Gutiérrez Ochoa had -according to the US authorities-, since they link him to acts of violence; in 2021 allegedly kidnapped two members of the Mexican Navy, as part of an operation that was intended to free to the wife of “El Mencho”, Rosalinda González Valenciawho was arrested by Mexican authorities.
Another crime in which “El Guacho” is allegedly involved for the conspiracy to launder the profits of the criminal activities of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
According to the United States Department of Justice, after Gutiérrez Ochoa began to be sought by Mexican authorities allegedly fled to the United States; there he assumed a fictitious identity and managed to reside in an upscale area in Riverside, California, which was acquired by CJNG money laundering agents with profits from organized crime.
According to court documents, El Mencho may have helped his son-in-law in a plot to fake his own death telling his associates that he murdered him for lying to himHowever, this had the objective of allowing him to settle in the United States with El Mencho’s daughter.
