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Adán Amezcua Contreras (born ), along with his brothers Jesús and
Adán Amezcua Contreras (born ), along with his brothers Jesús and Luis
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...
, was a leader of the Colima Cartel
The Colima Cartel ( es, Cártel de Colima) was a Mexican drug trafficking and methamphetamine producing cartel operating in Guadalajara, Jalisco. It was founded and led by José de Jesús Amezcua Contreras and supported by his brothers Adán an ...
, a Mexican methamphetamine and precursor drug smuggling
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organization.
Arrest
On November 10, 1997, Adán Amezcua was arrested in his hometown ofColima
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Colima i ...
, Col.
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, Mexico
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, on weapons charges. Two years later in March 1999, Adán Amezcua was arrested on money laundering charges; the charges were however dropped 2 months later and he was released.
Kingpin Act sanction
On October 2, 2008, theUnited States Department of the Treasury
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sanctioned Amezcua Contreras under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
The Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, better known as the Kingpin Act, is landmark federal legislation in the United States intended to address international narcotics trafficking by imposing United States sanctions on foreign persons ...
(sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with nine other international criminals and six entities. The act prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from doing any kind of business activity with him, and virtually froze all his assets in the U.S.
See also
*Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs throug ...
* Mexican Drug War
*Mexico–United States border
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