Human remains found in plastic bags in Mexican mass grave of 50 people
Human remains found cut up and stuffed in dozens of plastic bags in Mexican mass grave ‘linked to cartel war’ belonged to at least FIFTY people, officials confirm
- Remains were discovered in plastic bags on a farm outside city of Guadalajara
- Authorities have so far been able to identify 12 males and a female
- Jalisco state is home to the fearsome Jalisco New Generation Cartel
- Mass graves common across region and used by criminals to dispose of bodies
Hacked up body parts found stuffed inside plastic bags on a farm in Mexico last month belong to at least 50 people, authorities have confirmed.
The remains were discovered outside the city of Guadalajara in Jalisco state on November 22 and forensics experts were able to come to a figure last Friday.
So far 13 individuals have been identified, 12 males and a female, all whom had been listed as missing.
The northwestern Mexican state is home to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, considered among the most depraved gangsters in the country, their leader Nemesio Osegura Cervantes has been dubbed ‘the new El Chapo.’
In September a mass grave (pictured) was discovered near the city inside a 100ft abandoned well – it contained 41 bodies. Today prosecutors confirmed another 50 had been found close to the same site outside the city of Guadalajara
Nemesio Osegura Cervantes, also known as El Mencho (pictured above), has picked up where the infamous Joaquin Guzman, formerly El Chapo, left off, according to federal investigators
Jalisco state prosecutors said forensics teams would continue working to assess the identity and sex of the other individuals exhumed from the horrific mass grave.
In July, Jalisco prosecutors announced 21 bodies had been found in excavations in the yard of a house near Guadalajara.
In May, authorities discovered the remains of at least 34 people at two separate properties in the state.
And in September, 41 bodies were identified from 119 bags full of body parts found in a well near Guadalajara.
Such clandestine burial sites are frequently used by criminals to dispose of bodies.
Governor Enrique Alfaro recently said that 70% of homicides reported in Jalisco were linked to criminal organizations.
At least 40,000 people have disappeared since Mexico’s drug war began in 2006.
In September, 41 bodies were identified from 119 bags full of body parts found in a well near Guadalajara
Nemesio Osegura Cervantes, ‘El Mencho’, has picked up where the infamous Joaquin Guzman, formerly El Chapo, left off, according to federal investigators.
His feared Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) are suspected of running drugs over land and sea into the United States while fighting a bloody war and indiscriminately killing women and children.
Recent footage showed foot soldiers suspected of belonging to CJNG wearing terrifying clown masks and brandishing weapons in Tamaulipas state close to the border.
Specialist DEA agent Kyle Mori told news channel Univision: ‘(The CJNG) are very violent. Decapitations, dissolving bodies in acid, public executions, ripping out the heart, killing women and children, bombings against people
The DEA wants Cervantes so bad that it is offering up to $10 million for information leading to his arrest. An ‘El Mencho’ wanted poster is pictured above
‘It happens almost every day. El Chapo was violent, but El Mencho has taken it to a new level.’
The DEA wants Cervantes so bad that it is offering up to $10 million for information leading to his arrest.
‘He is the number one priority of DEA and frankly for federal law enforcement in the United States,’ Matthew Donahue, the DEA’s top agent in Mexico told CBS News.
‘Tons’ of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroine laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl have been trafficked into the country, according to the US Department of Justice.
Suspected members of the CJNG cartel posing with a vast arsenal of weapons
But with millions of dollars on his head, El Mencho is armed and ready to confront anyone who tries to disrupt his illicit dealings.
‘He has an enormous amount of weapons, RPGs, 50 caliber weapons. He basically has his own SWAT teams, Donahue said.
The drug lord and his operatives are suspected to have shot down a Mexican army helicopter leaving six people dead, was implicated in a public hanging this summer, and is linked to multiple other deadly violence towards ‘innocent human beings,’ the DEA agent told CBS.
Suspected foot soldiers of the CJNG cartel pose with weapons, including a .50 caliber machine gun
El Mencho stepped up after the 62-year-old Guzman, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and considered the most powerful drug lord in the world at the time, was jailed for life in a Brooklyn court this summer.
Going by El Chapo, or ‘shorty’ due to his short stature, Guzman was given a life sentence on July 17 for drug trafficking offenses and given an additional 30 for firearms offenses.
Authorities say that El Mencho’s take over has long been in the making. He began building his empire after he arrested on drug charges at age 19 in California and deported back to Mexico. That’s when he started CJNG.
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