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October 1 7, 1996
ury convicts drug kingpin of trafficking
HOUSTON (AP) — Mexican
drug kingpin Juan Garcia Abrego
was convicted Wednesday of
masterminding the shipping of
tons of cocaine into the United
States and then illegally launder
ing the profits.
Garcia Abrego looked stern and
one of his hands appeared to
twitch as he was found guilty of 22
counts of trafficking nearly 15 tons
of cocaine and illegally laundering
some $10.5 million.
Jurors took 12 hours to convict
the 52-year-old leader of the Gulf
drug cartel.
U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein
Jr. set a Jan. 31 sentencing date. Gar
cia Abrego faces a life prison term.
After the verdict, Werlein held a
brief forfeiture hearing. Jurors de
liberated for about two hours be
fore deciding that $350 million in
assets should be seized from the
man nicknamed “La Muneca,” or
"The Doll,” for his baby face.
Prosecutors had said the
seizure could reach $1 billion,
based on testimony about the
amount of cocaine that Garcia
Abrego was accused of bringing
into the United States.
But defense attorney Mike Ram
sey said such “speculative
amounts’’ were an “impossible
burden” on the jury. He told jurors
to decide that no assets be seized.
Garcia Abrego’s sister, Blanca Es-
thela Garcia Abrego, was shaken
and tearful about the verdict.
“We’re very upset,” she said.
“We’re very hurt.”
Other family members, including
his wife and son, declined comment.
Outside the courtroom, Garcia
Abrego’s attorney Tony Canales ex
pressed disappointment in the jury’s
decision and promised an appeal.
“I guess the jury says in this ver
dict that it doesn’t bother them
that huge amounts of money, were
paid to informants,” he said.
“There’s nothing wrong with cut
ting deals with people.”
Canales, who is a former U.S.
attorney, and Ramsey had re
ferred to some of the govern
ment’s 50 witnesses as “star rats”
who spoke from scripted testimo
ny in return for reduced sen
tences on their own convictions.
Prosecutors countered they
had proved their case but didn’t
disagree with the assessment of
their witnesses as “rats.”
“I like the word ‘rats,’” Assistant
U.S. Attorney Jesse Rodriguez said
during closing arguments. “Who
else can lead you to the big cheese?”
Defense lawyers also described
the government’s case as a “show tri
al” put on in an election year with
Garcia Abrego a convenient scape
goat in America’s war on drugs.
Garcia Abrego, who had been on
the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, was
arrested Jan. 14 near Monterrey,
Mexico, by Mexican drug agents.
They waited for hours, covered
with tree branches and dirt, at the
modest, two-bedroom home
where he was staying and moved
in when he arrived.
The next day, heavily armed fed
eral police agents escorted him on
a plane to Houston. He admitted to
drug trafficking in an interview
with U.S. federal agents but down
played his role.
Garcia Abrego did not testify dur
ing his trial but sat impassively, lis
tening through headphones to the
proceedings translated into Spanish.
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a region forever branded a
lal men. They #t line corridor, where residents
ire and afterexpo!^ e ii ve( } with the terror of turf
s and scandal under the
ches of one of Mexico’s most
■ ii ^erful drug kingpins.
S tO IIW ^Wednesday, those fears di-
v ished if only for a moment in
Rio Grande Valley with the
at first washesilil-awaited conviction of Juan
■ about hisrareai ciaAbrego.
The Rio Grande Valley has
called a drug corridor,
thought,‘we’vtsfefully, putting guys away
this will help close that cor-
said state Rep. Rene
eira of Brownsville,
federal jury in Houston con
id Garcia Abrego on 22 counts
rug trafficking and money
dering. He faces life in prison,
he 52-year-old native of La
ma headed the Gulf Cartel, a
conviction as both a victory in the
drug war and an inspiration to
keep fighting.
“It’s a justice that’s long over
due regarding one of the biggest
narco-political traffickers in the
world,” said Phil Jordan, a retired
Drug Enforcement Administra
tion agent who helped build the
case against Garcia Abrego.
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o, lean Shirekssi [-trafficking organization
buffalo calf, win djust across the border in
■n named, hasp! imoros, Mexico,
away from then he cartel is believed to smug-
iiindreds of tons of Colombian
foie each year into the United
ks do not know'll is via the Rio Grande Valley,
hen winter arrives aw enforcement officials who
red since the mid-80s to top-
Garcia Abrego praised his
“The message that it
sends is it may take a
while, but even the
kingpins are going to
have their day in
court.”
Alonzo Pena
U.S. Customs Service
Others said the conviction
would serve as an example for the
heads of other cartels.
“The message that it sends is it
may take a while, but even the
kingpins are going to have their
day in court,” said Alonzo Pena,
head of the U.S. Customs Service
in Brownsville.
Jeff Stamm, a supervisory spe
cial agent with the DEA’s
Brownsville office, added: “The
heads of the cartels in the past
have been somewhat untouch
able because they have so suc
cessfully insulated themselves.
Now they are realizing they are in
fact not untouchable.”
The conviction of Garcia
Abrego comes more than 10 years
after U.S. authorities first learned
of the up-and-coming drug lord
following the seizure of 1,600
pounds of cocaine in a pickup
truck on the Texas border.
It was the biggest load at the
time in this region, officials said,
and an indication that the drug
trade was growing.
In the years to follow, hun
dreds more seizures would be
made, some directly linked to
Garcia Abrego, others not. Under
lings would be arrested and prop
erty and cash seized.
Violence erupted on both sides
of the border, again suspected to
be connected to Garcia Abrego
but usually not proven.
In Brownsville, authorities be
lieve several unsolved crimes
were committed by the Gulf Car
tel, including the 1991 execution-
style killings of a couple and their
attorney near the Rio Grande.
Garcia Abrego also is believed
responsible for the 1985 kidnap
ping of an 18-year-old man who
was taken from his parents’
home at gunpoint, never to be
seen again.
While authorities here ac
knowledge Garcia Abrego proba
bly never will be tried for those
crimes, they said his conviction
on the trafficking charges pro
vides some sense of justice.
“That organization killed a lot
of people and caused a lot of grief
along the border. With him going
down, that sends a real message,”
said George Gavito, a former
sheriff’s lieutenant who served on
a DEA task force that helped in
vestigate the 1991 murders.
Gavito admitted, however, that
the conviction will do little to
stop the flow of drugs into the Rio
Grande Valley and beyond. It is
only a matter of time before a
new lord takes over the kingdom.
“That’s just one little fish, and
there’s hundreds and hundreds
out there,” he said. “You knock
down that organization and a lot
more are born.”
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