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This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
A federal judge granted the extradition to the United States of Erick Valencia Salazar, alias “El 85,” a former collaborator of Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG) leader Nemesio Oseguera, who is wanted by a federal court in the District of Columbia.
After filing several appeals to stop his transfer, the head of the Fifth District Court in Amparo and Federal Trials in the State of Mexico, Alfonso Alexander López Moreno, determined that the “justice of the Union DOES NOT PROTECT” “El 85” against the extradition agreement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in August of last year, and the omission of the judge responsible for issuing his legal opinion on the case by the deadline established by the International Extradition Law.
Valencia Salazar was first arrested in 2012 and released by a judge in 2017.
In September 2022, almost five years after being released, Erick was recaptured by elements of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), in the municipality of Tapalpa, Jalisco, where he was vacationing, and who was served an arrest warrant for extradition purposes.
In October 2022, a federal judge granted a provisional suspension to Erick Valencia to temporarily halt his extradition to the United States.
The CJNG founder’s freedom was at the disposal of the amparo court at the Altiplano maximum security prison, where he is being held.
In September 2023, Valencia Salazar filed an injunction to stop his surrender to the US government, after he was notified of the extradition order inside the prison.