{"id":22721,"date":"2025-05-02T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/former-federal-agent-and-his-wife-shot-dead-after-he-testified-against-son-of-powerful-mexico-cartel-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:55:37","slug":"former-federal-agent-and-his-wife-shot-dead-after-he-testified-against-son-of-powerful-mexico-cartel-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/former-federal-agent-and-his-wife-shot-dead-after-he-testified-against-son-of-powerful-mexico-cartel-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Former federal agent and his wife shot dead after he testified against son of powerful Mexico cartel leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A former Mexican federal agent who testified against the drug trafficker son of the country&#8217;s most wanted man was shot dead in the central state of Morelos, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Morales was a prosecution witness in the U.S. trial of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-drug-cartel-ruben-oseguera-el-menchito-prison\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez,<\/a><\/span> a leader of Mexico&#8217;s violent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jalisco-cartel-operation-investigation-recruitment-ranch-mexico\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jalisco New Generation cartel<\/a>, who was jailed for life by a Washington court in March.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez&#8217;s father is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes &#8212; better known as <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/el-mencho-mexican-cartel-boss-behind-one-third-of-drugs-in-the-us-2019-09-26\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;El Mencho&#8221;<\/a><\/span> &#8212; who heads the cartel and has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-4-English-Reward-Poster-El-Mencho.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$15 million U.S. bounty<\/a> on his head.<\/p>\n<p>Morales and his wife were shot dead on Wednesday morning as they were traveling in their vehicle in the Temixco area, around 60 miles from Mexico City, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>State prosecutors are investigating the crime and have not ruled out revenge as a possible motive, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Morales had a decade ago, on May 1, 2015, survived one of Mexico&#8217;s bloodiest drug trafficking attacks, when a military helicopter carrying 16 soldiers and two federal police officers was shot down in the western state of Jalisco.<\/p>\n<p>Nine people died but Morales managed to escape from the burning wreckage, though he suffered severe burns that left part of his face disfigured.<\/p>\n<p>That helicopter was flying in an ultimately unsuccessful mission to arrest &#8220;El Mencho.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In September, a federal jury\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ruben-oseguera-cartel-menchito-jalisco-new-generation-5130657a0a8859497dc3bccfb73d16ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">convicted the younger Oseguera<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; nicknamed &#8220;El Menchito&#8221; &#8212; of conspiring to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for U.S. importation and using a firearm in a drug conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;El Menchito led the Jalisco Cartel&#8217;s efforts to use murder, kidnapping, and torture to build the Cartel into a self-described &#8217;empire&#8217; by manufacturing fentanyl and flooding the United States with massive quantities of lethal drugs,&#8221; former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in September.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/02\/5f0243ad-f69a-4c5b-94e7-a286f26340b7\/thumbnail\/620x446\/49dfd24fc826f8dff2440e98bd7736be\/gettyimages-465916899.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce#\" alt=\"MEXICO-DRUGS-CRIME \" height=\"446\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/02\/5f0243ad-f69a-4c5b-94e7-a286f26340b7\/thumbnail\/620x446\/49dfd24fc826f8dff2440e98bd7736be\/gettyimages-465916899.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/02\/5f0243ad-f69a-4c5b-94e7-a286f26340b7\/thumbnail\/1240x892\/8b4db5c3d573ba882f02d0689fd09eb5\/gettyimages-465916899.jpg?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Mexican soldiers participate in a military operation during which Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, aka &#8220;el Menchito&#8221; son of the leader of the Jalisco next Generation cartel, was arrested, in Guadalajara, Mexico on January 30, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                HECTOR GUERRERO\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ruben Oseguera\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.183377\/gov.uscourts.dcd.183377.132.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ordered the killings<\/a>\u00a0of at least 100 people, personally shot and killed at least two people and ordered subordinates to shoot down the Mexican military helicopter in 2015, prosecutors said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Jalisco cartel targeted by the U.S.<\/h2>\n<p>The Jalisco New Generation cartel is one of the most powerful criminal gangs in Mexico and has been <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-president-warns-us-invasion-cartels-terrorist-group-designation\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">designated<\/a><\/span> a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government. The group has been accused of using fake job advertisements to lure new members and of\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jalisco-cartel-operation-investigation-recruitment-ranch-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">torturing and killing recruits<\/a><\/span>\u00a0who resist. In March, a group of people looking for missing relatives found\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mass-killing-site-possibly-found-jalisco-mexico-search-missing-relatives\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">charred bones, shoes and clothing<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at a suspected training ground for the cartel.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Trump administration on Thursday <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jalisco-cartel-image-jaguar-seized-leader-sanctions\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">imposed economic sanctions<\/a><\/span> on three Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based entities involved in a drug trafficking and fuel theft network linked to the Jalisco cartel.<\/p>\n<p>The new sanctions targeted top members Cesar Morfin Morfin (dubbed &#8220;Primito&#8221;) and his brothers Alvaro Noe Morfin Morfin and Remigio Morfin Morfin, target the group&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-tank-sanctioned-us-fuel-theft-ring-jalisco-new-generation-cartel-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">fuel theft network<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Primito&#8217;s luxurious lifestyle has included ownership of exotic animals and dozens of luxury vehicles,&#8221; the Treasury\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sb0125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a news release<\/a>, while releasing an image of a jaguar allegedly seized from Primito by Mexican authorities in December 2023.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/01\/1b628b58-6b79-4808-9e36-4b18f6aa7aac\/thumbnail\/620x505g9\/ad193dec839c8a359ef41e0bb3bd2a19\/jaguar-sb0125-picture2.png?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce#\" 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