“Ivan” for Borderland Beat
Valencia Salazar, ex-partner of Nemesio Oseguera “El Mencho”, is imprisoned in the Altiplano prison in the State of Mexico; he could be extradited to the United States.
Erick Valencia Salazar, alias “El 85,” fears that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) will serve him with a new arrest warrant, which would be added to the extradition warrant executed in September 2022, for which he is being held in the Altiplano prison in the state of Mexico.
For this reason, the former associate of the leader of the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, filed an injunction against any arrest warrant issued against him, as well as its execution, in which a judge in Jalisco granted him a provisional suspension.
The holder of the Ninth District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters in the State of Jalisco, with residence in Puente Grande, granted Valencia Salazar the provisional suspension against the acts claimed and set a financial guarantee of 5 thousand pesos.
At the end of March, Erick Valencia Salazar, a former high-ranking commander of the Nueva Plaza Cartel, an enemy of the CJNG, sought legal protection.
From jail, “El 85” is fighting a legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States, where he is wanted by a court for drug trafficking.
Arrested last year in Tapalpa, Jalisco, by members of the Army, Valencia Salazar broke his alliance with Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” and later joined the leadership of the Nueva Plaza Cartel, founded by Carlos Enrique Sanchez Martinez, alias “El Cholo,” who was El Mencho’s operator.
Who is Erick Valencia, “El 85”?
Valencia Salazar is a Mexican drug trafficker and one of the alleged leaders of the CJNG , a violent drug trafficking organization in which Nemesio Oceguera ‘El Mencho’ is also linked.
He is allegedly responsible for the illegal importation of cocaine from Mexico and elsewhere for distribution in the United States since approximately 2003.
He allegedly controls large areas of central Mexico, including major drug trafficking regions such as Jalisco, Baja California, Colima, and Michoacán; also involved in kidnappings, murders, public corruption, and other illegal activities.
