Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar
{{Short description|Mexican drug trafficker (born 1976)}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name = Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar
| image_name = Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1976|06|09}}
| birth_place = Sabancuy, Carmen Municipality, Campeche, Mexico
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| alias = Z-7
El Mamito
| charge = Organized crime, murder, drug trafficking, mercenary
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| conviction_status = Captured (July 4, 2011) and Extradited to the United States (Sep 11, 2012)
| occupation = A former leader of Los Zetas
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{{family name hatnote|Rejón|Aguilar|lang=Spanish}}
Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar (a.k.a. Z-7, El Mamito){{cite news |title=Zetas" se surten en Guatemala: Rejón |url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/186870.html |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=El Universal (Mexico City) |date=6 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012075339/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/186870.html |archive-date=12 October 2012 |url-status=live |language=es }} is a former leader of the Mexican criminal organization known as Los Zetas.{{cite web|title=Narcotics Rewards Program: Jesus Enrique Rejon-Aguilar|url=https://www.state.gov/p/inl/narc/rewards/123691.htm|publisher=United States Department of State|access-date=4 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111100428/http://www.state.gov/p/inl/narc/rewards/123691.htm|archive-date=11 January 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Reward Offers for Top Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas Leaders |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/july/126228.htm |publisher=United States Department of State |access-date=4 October 2012 |location=Washington, D.C. |date=20 July 2009 }} He was wanted by the governments of Mexico and USA until his capture on July 4, 2011 in Atizapán de Zaragoza, a Mexico City suburb.{{cite news |last=Lange |first=Jason |title=Mexico nabs top lieutenant of dreaded Zetas cartel |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-drugs-idUSTRE76331220110704 |access-date=4 October 2012 |work=Reuters |date=4 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214025837/http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/04/us-mexico-drugs-idUSTRE76331220110704 |archive-date=14 December 2011 |url-status=live |location=Mexico City }}
Biography
Rejón Aguilar was born in Sabancuy, Carmen Municipality, Campeche, Mexico, in 1976.{{cite news |title=Armamento de 'Los Zetas' se compra en EU, dice fundador del grupo criminal |url=http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/07/05/armamento-de-los-zetas-se-compra-en-eu-dice-fundador-del-grupo-criminal |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=CNNMéxico |date=5 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009060814/http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/07/05/armamento-de-los-zetas-se-compra-en-eu-dice-fundador-del-grupo-criminal |archive-date=9 October 2012 |url-status=dead |language=es }} On April 3, 1993, Rejón Aguilar entered the Mexican Army in his home state of Campeche and in 1996 was assigned to Special Forces Airmobile Group (GAFE). In 1997, he was assigned to the Mexico's Federal Attorney General's Office (PGR) in the cities of Reynosa and Miguel Alemán in Tamaulipas. In 1998 he was assigned to Saltillo, Coahuila. He deserted the army in February 1999 and in March the same year, at the invitation of Arturo Guzmán Decena, known as "The Z1" was integrated into the group of 14 former soldiers who founded Los Zetas as the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel.{{cite web |title=Ley de Transparencia |url=http://www.sedena.gob.mx/leytrans/petic/2006/enero/25012006b.html |publisher=Secretariat of National Defense |access-date=4 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616011027/http://www.sedena.gob.mx/leytrans/petic/2006/enero/25012006b.html |archive-date=16 June 2013 |url-status=live |date=1 September 2009 |language=es }}{{cite news |title=Cae "El Mamito", líder Zeta implicado en la muerte del agente Zapata |url=http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/a3a4f854e099228757da6f3aa2e94726 |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=Milenio |date=4 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907055603/http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/a3a4f854e099228757da6f3aa2e94726 |archive-date=7 September 2011 |url-status=live |location=Mexico City |language=es }}
Rejón Aguilar oversaw the paramilitary training of new recruits{{cite news |last=Reyes |first=José |title=El imperio del Lazca durante el foxismo |url=http://contralinea.info/archivo-revista/index.php/2009/09/06/el-imperio-del-lazca-durante-el-foxismo/ |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=Contralínea |date=6 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020102802/http://contralinea.info/archivo-revista/index.php/2009/09/06/el-imperio-del-lazca-durante-el-foxismo/ |archive-date=20 October 2012 |url-status=live |location=Mexico City |language=es }} and then oversaw Gulf Cartel trafficking activities in the state of Coahuila along with Alejandro Treviño Morales. Rejón Aguilar is responsible for multi-ton shipments of marijuana and multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine from Mexico to the United States.{{cite web|title=DEA Fugitive: REJON-AGUILAR, JESUS ENRIQUE|url=https://www.justice.gov/dea/fugitives/houston/REJON-AGUILAR.html|publisher=Drug Enforcement Administration|access-date=4 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102083822/http://www.justice.gov/dea/fugitives/houston/REJON-AGUILAR.html|archive-date=2 January 2010|url-status=live}} In 2004, Rejón Aguilar coordinated a failed raid on the maximum security prison 'El Altiplano', as he attempted to liberate his boss Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.{{cite news |title=Cae presunto líder fundador de Los Zetas |url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/776951.html |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=El Universal |date=4 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012075137/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/776951.html |archive-date=12 October 2012 |url-status=live |location=Mexico City |language=es }} According to government documents, his plan consisted of using 3 helicopters and over 50 Zeta members to liberate Cárdenas Guillén.{{cite news |last=Baranda |first=Antonio |title=Ubican en SLP a 'El Mamito', jefe de El Piolín |url=http://www.terra.com.mx/noticias/articulo/1053725/Ubican+en+SLP+a+El+Mamito+jefe+de+El+Piolin.htm |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=Terra Networks |date=25 February 2011 |agency=Reforma |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024235837/http://www.terra.com.mx/noticias/articulo/1053725/Ubican+en+SLP+a+El+Mamito+jefe+de+El+Piolin.htm |archive-date=24 October 2012 |url-status=live |language=es }} In 2007 Rejón Aguilar was assigned to the streets of Nuevo Laredo and Miguel Alemán under the command of Miguel Treviño Morales, where he remained until early 2009.
After the split between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas in 2010, Rejón Aguilar was assigned as the regional coordinator in the states of central and northern Mexico.
Kingpin Act sanction
On 24 March 2010, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Rejón Aguilar 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}}
=Capture=
Mexican authorities had posted a $30 million peso (US$2.3 million) bounty for Rejón Aguilar,{{cite news |last=Vega |first=Aurora |title=Los Zetas ordenaron el ataque y la muerte del agente de EU |url=http://www.excelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=718077 |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=Excélsior |date=28 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303071934/http://www.excelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=718077 |archive-date=3 March 2011 |url-status=live |language=es }} while the United States posted in July 2009 a US$5 million bounty.{{cite web |title=Treasury Targets Perpetrators of Mexican Drug Trafficking Violence Tied to Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel |url=http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg605.aspx |publisher=United States Department of the Treasury |access-date=4 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921015543/http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg605.aspx |archive-date=21 September 2012 |url-status=live |date=24 March 2010 }} On July 4, 2011, police captured Rejón in a Mexico City suburb without firing a shot.{{cite news |last=Romo |first=Rafael |title=Authorities: Mexican drug lord tied to death of ICE agent captured |url=http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-04/world/mexico.arrest_1_zetas-mexican-authorities-mexican-drug-lord?_s=PM:WORLD |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=CNN |date=4 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121120929/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-04/world/mexico.arrest_1_zetas-mexican-authorities-mexican-drug-lord?_s=PM:WORLD |archive-date=21 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Rejón Aguilar was extradited to the United States on 11 September 2012 for drug trafficking and organized crime charges,{{cite news |last=Vega |first=Aurora |title=El Mamito es extraditado a EU; era fundador de Los Zetas |url=http://www.excelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&seccion=seccion-nacional&cat=1&id_nota=858517 |access-date=12 September 2012 |newspaper=Excélsior |date=11 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024084031/http://excelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&seccion=seccion-nacional&cat=1&id_nota=858517 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |url-status=live |language=es }}{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Allison |title=Mexico: Senior Zetas drug cartel member Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar extradited to the US |url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/120912/mexico-zetas-drug-cartel-jesus-enrique-rejon-aguilar-US |access-date=4 October 2012 |newspaper=GlobalPost |date=12 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005134747/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/120912/mexico-zetas-drug-cartel-jesus-enrique-rejon-aguilar-US |archive-date=5 October 2012 |url-status=live }} pleading guilty for conspiracy to traffic large sums of narcotics to the U.S. in February 2013. He faces a mandatory 10-year sentence and a maximum sentence of life in prison.{{cite news |title=Mexico's "Los Zetas" Cartel Member Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Charges in U.S. |url=http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=667352&CategoryId=14091 |access-date=3 February 2013 |newspaper=Latin American Herald Tribune |date=1 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223736/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=667352&CategoryId=14091 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |location=Washington, D.C. |url-status=dead }}
See also
References
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Category:People from Campeche City
Category:People sanctioned under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act