Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa
{{short description|Mexican drug lord}}
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| birth_date = ca. 1965
| birth_place = Tamaulipas, MexicoOpenSanctions.org: [https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/Q5606747/ Gregorio SAUCEDA GAMBOA]
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| other_names = El Goyo,[http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/infografias/2009/abril/290409captura_elgoyo/ Detiene la Policia Federal a Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, alias "El Goyo" y/o "El Caramuela, presunto integrante del Cartel del Golfo en Tamaulipas.] Office of the President. Federal Government of Mexico. 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2012. Metro-2, Caramuela
| employer = Ministerial Police, Gulf Cartel, Los Metros
| occupation = Lieutenant
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Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa is a Mexican illegal drug trafficker of the Gulf Cartel.{{cite news | title = Los Zetas Founder Arrested | date = April 30, 2009 | url = http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/gregorio-sauceda-gamboa/ | work = Friend of Ours | access-date = 2012-03-12 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110920084646/http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/gregorio-sauceda-gamboa/ | archive-date = September 20, 2011 | url-status = dead }}{{cite news | title = Mexico arrests 'drug gang boss' | date = 30 April 2009 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8026906.stm | work = BBC News | access-date = 2012-03-12}}
Sauceda was a former investigative police officer, who helped smuggle an average of 10 tons of cocaine and 30 tons of marijuana across the border each month.{{cite web | url = http://kikka-roja.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-capturan-al-caramuela-o-el-goyo.html | title = Capturan al Caramuela | access-date = 2012-03-12 | date = 30 April 2009 | language = Spanish}}
Arrest
He was captured on April 30, 2009 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas along with his wife and his bodyguard, Miguel Ángel Reyes Grajales.{{cite news | title = Mexico nabs a 'most-wanted' drug trafficker | date = April 30, 2009 | publisher = NBC News News | url = https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30487924 | work = Associated Press (AP) | access-date = 2012-03-12}} Mexican Authorities had offered a 30 million pesos (about US$2.1 million) bounty for information leading to his capture.
Kingpin Act sanction
On 24 March 2010, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Sauceda-Gamboa under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with fifty-three other international criminals and ten foreign entities.{{cite web|title=DESIGNATIONS PURSUANT TO THE FOREIGN NARCOTICS KINGPIN DESIGNATION ACT |url=http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/narco_designations_kingpin.pdf |publisher=United States Department of the Treasury |access-date=28 May 2014 |page=11 |date=15 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514025153/http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/narco_designations_kingpin.pdf |archive-date=14 May 2013 |url-status=dead }} The act prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from doing any kind of business activity with him, and virtually froze all his assets in the U.S.{{cite web|title=An overview of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act|url=http://www.assetsearchblog.com/uploads/file/drugs.pdf|publisher=United States Department of the Treasury|access-date=28 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528053616/http://www.assetsearchblog.com/uploads/file/drugs.pdf|archive-date=28 May 2014|page=1|date=2009}}
See also
References
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Category:People from Tamaulipas
Category:People sanctioned under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:People involved in the 1999 Matamoros standoff
Category:Founding members of Los Zetas
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