Chicago's most searched criminals live 2,000 miles away – NBC Chicago

Al Capone was the first.

El Mencho is the electricity.

Both men held the unsavory title of Chicago's number one.

There is a big difference between the most wanted refugees in the city: at least “Scarface” capone actually lived in the city.

El Mencho, whose real name Rubén Oseguera Cervantes is, lives in Mexico, according to the US criminal trial authorities, but you don't know exactly where. Mencho is charged in Chicago to monitor a criminal drug organization that is responsible for murders, chaos and many million dollars of illegal profits. There is a newly increased premium on his head, now 15 million US dollars.

NBC Chicago examines how federal agents try to land El Mencho by turning the screws on his family members.

Menchos heads the “new generation cartel”, also known as CJNG.

However, it is a company that wiped out a generation of overdose customers in Chicago.

The investigators in Chicago see a glimmer of hope with the lifelong prison sentence, which is convicted only with the 34-year-old son to the 34-year-old son Rubén Oseguera González, who is known as “Menchito”.

“I am sure that this has sent shock waves through El Mencho's organization,” said Jack Riley, a former top officer from the US drug authority administration.

Riley headed the Chicago Dea office as a special agent.

“You get a lot of pressure from the new administration. You have turned a lot of people. “

Despite a move through the Trump administration and the name that drug cartels are terrorist organizations, there is a tough struggle for US drug agents.

“Your tentacles go everywhere,” he said. “Military, justice, even everything on the way to the presidential palace. So this is a long rooted struggle in which we are in ourselves, and I definitely hope that we maintain the pressure because I think we make a difference. “

Goudie: “Well, you cannot set the cartel product a tariff, but you can spend them as terrorist organizations, as the President did.

Riley: The terrorist designation is considerable if you look at where we used it around the world. I think the alarm rings in the entire Mexican government. “

El Mencho's predecessor was Joaquin Guzman, who was known as El Chapo. He is now in the Supermax prison in Colorado and is now serving a lifelong prison sentence and Riley helped him get him there. He believes that the successor El Mencho will also find a cot there … in the near future.

“I obviously hope earlier than later, but I would not surprise myself at all if he was not surprised in the USA by the end of the year.”