Luis Amezcua Contreras

Luis Amezcua Contreras

Infobox Criminal
subject_name = Luis Ignacio Amezcua Contreras


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date_of_birth =
place_of_birth = Calimo, Mexico
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alias = Chuy
charge = Drug trafficking and smuggling and money laundering
penalty =
status = Incarcerated
occupation = Head of the Colima Cartel
Luis Ignacio Amezcua Contreras, along with his brothers Adán and Jesús, were the leaders of the Colima Cartel, A Mexican methamphetamine and precursor drug smuggling organization. [Cite news|title=1998 Congressional Hearings Intelligence and Security: DEA Congressional Testimony |publisher=Senate Foreign Relations Committee |date=February 26, 1998 |url=http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_hr/ct980226.htm] [cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/etc/amezcua.html |title=PBS Frontline: Murder Money & Mexico: The Amezcua-Contreras Cartel |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)] [cite web|title=DEA Confirms Arrest By Mexican Authorities of AMEZCUA-CONTRERAS Brothers |url=http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/dea/product/pr980602.htm |date=June 2, 1998 |publisher=Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)] [cite news|title=Mexico Drops Most Charges on 2 Drug Suspects |publisher=New York Times |date=June 10, 1998 |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2D6123AF933A25755C0A96E958260] [cite news|url=http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/229068 |publisher=Japan Today |date=September 5, 2002 |title=Women take over Mexican drug cartels]

Arrest

On June 1, 1998, Luis and Jesús Amezcua were arrested in Guadalajara, Jalisco, by agents from the Mexican counter-narcotics agency, Fiscalia Especial Para Atencion a los Delitos Contra la Salud (FEADS). The Colima Cartel at the time of the arrests of Luis and Jesús was believed to be "the most prominent methamphetamine trafficking organization operating ... as well as the leading supplier of chemicals to other methamphetamine trafficking organizations" [cite web|title=DEA Confirms Arrest By Mexican Authorities of AMEZCUA-CONTRERAS Brothers |url=http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/dea/product/pr980602.htm |date=June 2, 1998 |publisher=Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)] Within 9 days of their arrest, the New York Times reported two of the three charges Luis and Jesús Amezcua Contreras were facing were dropped. Judge Jose Nieves Luna Castro dropped from each, one count of criminal association and money laundering, saying they had been charged under statutes that were not in effect at the time of their alleged crimes, leaving one remaining charge for each of the brothers. [cite news|title=Mexico Drops Most Charges on 2 Drug Suspects |publisher=New York Times |date=June 10, 1998 |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2D6123AF933A25755C0A96E958260]

On September 5, 2002, Japan Today published an article in which the head of the attorney general's organized crime unit (UEDO), Joe Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, stated the sisters of the imprisoned Colima Cartel leaders Luis Ignacio, Jesus and Adan Amezcua-Contreras had taken over for their brothers. [cite news|url=http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/229068 |publisher=Japan Today |date=September 5, 2002 |title=Women take over Mexican drug cartels]

ee also

*Illegal drug trade
*United States - Mexico border

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