El Mencho's daughter, Jessica Oseguera, personal background revealed in new court documents
By Chivis Martinez
Borderland Beat
March 3, 2020
Jessica Johana Oseguera González, the daughter of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes El Mencho, won at bail hearing yesterday in DC. The federal judge granted her bail/release request.
She was immediately taken into custody by US Marshall's as the Justice Department appealed the ruling. Another hearing will commence on Friday for a final ruling. (read filing below)
The government website had no file of dockets for Jessica until yesterday.
Within the documents, personal information was revealed with respect to Jessica.
Jessica is 33 years old and has no criminal record. She was born and raised in California, and moved to Mexico while she was in High School. She graduated and received a degree from a university in Guadalajara in 2009. She is a dual citizen of U.S. where she was born in San Francisco, and Mexico.
She is the mother of two children, aged 4 and 12. The children are U.S. citizens. She resides in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico with her children.
Jessica has family in Texas and California, including aunts, uncles and cousins to whom she is very close and visits often. On those visits she accesses entry into the US by using her US passport.
Her attorneys claim
Jessica’s attorney Stephen McCool, contends that his client is being prejudiced against and has been stalked and harassed by the U.S. government.
He states that Jessica travelled to California in August, 2019 to visit her uncle and aunt. Her children accompanied her on the visit.
Jessica asserts that while on the visit, federal agents, who were investigation her brother, stopped and harassed her while she was with her children, by threatening her. She says one agent threatened her and her family, “I have the power to put you and your family in jail.”
Nonetheless, she was not so frighten as to cut her trip short and in fact stayed in California for another month at which time she and her children returned to Mexico.
The hearing and arrest
On February 26, 2020, Jessica entered the US District Court (federal) of Columbia, to attend the hearing in support of her brother, Rubén Oseguera González, aka “El Menchito”.
Jessica had driven across the US. –Mexican border into California. While making entry into the U.S. Jessica again used her US passport, which was scanned, and was directed to a secondary screening process. She was cleared and she continued to drive to California.
She flew from California to DC.
When she arrived in the US District Court on Washington DC on February 26,, 2020, she was arrested at which time she was told there was a sealed Indictment against her.
Indictment
The indictment charges her with five counts of “Engaging in Transactions or Dealings in Properties of a Designated Foreign Person.
These are similar charges she faced in Mexico, which were litigated and she was found not liable.
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