Juan García Ábrego
| Juan García Ábrego | |
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| FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive | |
| Charges | 22 counts of drug trafficking |
| Description | |
| Born |
September 13, 1944 Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico or La Paloma, Texas, U.S. |
| Status | |
| Added | March 9, 1995 |
| Caught | January 14, 1996 |
| Number | 440 |
| Captured | |
| Juan García Ábrego | |
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| Born |
September 13, 1944 Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico or La Paloma, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Drug trafficking |
| Title | Drug lord |
| Predecessor | Juan Nepomuceno Guerra |
| Successor | Osiel Cárdenas Guillén |
Juan García Ábrego (born September 13, 1944) is a former Mexican drug lord who started out his criminal career under the tutelage of his uncle Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who is reported to be the former head of a criminal dynasty along the U.S.-Mexico border now called the Gulf Cartel.
United States intelligence reports state Guerra reared his nephew on car theft before passing down his criminal enterprise. The exact date of succession is unknown; however, law enforcement officials recall an incident on January 27, 1987 when Tomás Morlet, former officer in an elite Mexican police force turned national trafficker, exchanged harsh words with García Ábrego and was later found, shot twice in the back in the doorway of Guerra's Piedras Negras Restaurant.
Reports date his trafficking career beginning in the mid-1970s exporting marijuana from Mexico into the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana and Florida. In the early 1980s he began incorporating cocaine into the cartel's trafficking operations. García Ábrego is widely known for innovating Mexican trafficking operations, turning them from smugglers into suppliers. By renegotiating deals with the Cali Cartel, García Ábrego was able to secure 50% of every shipment out of Colombia as payment for delivery, instead of the $1,500 USD per kilo they were previously receiving. The renegotiating however brought a price, the cartel would have to guarantee any shipment from Colombia to its destination. This change forced García Ábrego to begin stockpiling hundreds of tons of cocaine along Mexico's northern border in warehouses, however it allowed him to set up his own distribution network and expand his political influence. By the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s it was estimated García Ábrego was smuggling over 300 metric tons per year across the US-Mexico border.
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