Guadalajara Cartel Founder Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo to Remain Locked up in Prison After Transfer to His Home Suspended Again

By Rick Martin First Posted: Sep 24, 2022 06:46 AM EDT

Guadalajara Cartel founder Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo will remain locked up in Mexico's Jalisco state prison after a federal judge suspended his transfer to a private home again.

According to Infobae, officials of the Jalisco state Prevention and Social Reintegration Directorate General received the order at around 2:50 p.m. on Friday.

The seventh district judge reportedly suspended Felix Gallardo's transfer to his Zapopan home after the Attorney General's Office (FGR) requested that he be transferred instead to the Federal Center for Social Reintegration (Cefereso) in Morelos state and resolve the problems with the company supervising the ankle monitor that he will wear.

The judge has denied the request of the FGR to transfer the Guadalajara Cartel founder to Cefereso. However, the judge postponed Felix Gallardo's house arrest until the problems with the firm supervising the electronic ankle bracelet had been addressed. Milenio reported that there is still no definite date on when the company would resolve these issues.

Guadalajara Cartel Founder Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo's Transfer to Home Previously Postponed

Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo was supposed to get out from Puente Grande prison in Jalisco on September 15 and be transferred to his house in the Ciudad del Sol neighborhood. However, it was deferred after the National Guard admitted they could not do it due to a lack of personnel.

The postponement in placing Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo under house arrest had certainly not made his lawyers happy. One of his lawyers, Teresa Vallejo Perez, accused Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Rosa Icela Rodriguez of meddling in the process and ordering the transfer to be suspended.

Vallejo Perez noted that she will hold the secretary and "all of Mexico" responsible if her client died. The lawyer said the secretary intends to build an image that his client is an evil man who will be sacrificed for political gains.

Vallejo Perez further noted that the National Guard agents had already told her there was no danger to the public or possibilities of escape and had sufficient personnel to transfer the Guadalajara Cartel founder to his home.

She said the agents had also checked Felix Gallardo's ankle monitor and verified that it worked correctly. The Mexican drug lord must wear an ankle monitor for authorities to know where he is.

The Guadalajara Cartel founder's lawyers, wife, and son waited more than three hours for the formal release of Felix Gallardo from prison last week, but it did not materialize.

Guadalajara Cartel Founder Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo's Ailments

Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo had already been allowed to continue his sentence from home as his health deteriorated. However, the FGR challenged the order issued by a judge.

The FGR argued that the judge had only ruled on his 40-year sentence and not his separate 37-year sentence. According to reports, another judge still needs to rule about his 37-year sentence.

Felix Gallardo is currently serving two prison sentences that add up to his 76-year-old age. He was arrested in April 1989 for the kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar.

In the same year, a court sentenced the Guadalajara Cartel founder to 40 years in prison for crimes that included stockpiling weapons, drug trafficking, murder, bribery, and money laundering. However, after serving 28 years, a 2017 retrial sentenced him to an additional 37 years for the death of Camarena.

In granting him house arrest, the judge said the Mexican drug kingpin could serve the remaining three years of his sentence for drug trafficking and possession of weapons in a private home due to his advanced age and health problems. And after he completed it, the judge noted that Felix Gallardo will have to begin serving his sentence for the murder of Camarena.

Last year, the Guadalajara Cartel founder told Telemundo that his health was terrible and that his family was already digging a hole under a tree for him to be buried. He also said he does not have hopes of getting out of prison.

He noted that he had lost all hope of being released and believed he would die in prison. Felix Gallardo is currently blind in one eye and deaf in one ear and often needs an oxygen tank in order to breathe.

Felix Gallardo, also known for his aliases "El Jefe de Jefes"(The Boss of Bosses) and "El Padrino" (The Godfather), once worked with Rafael Caro Quintero, another Guadalajara Cartel co-founder, who was recently arrested by security forces in Sinaloa.

Felix Gallardo also oversaw lieutenants like young Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, who later became the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. He was also known to work with Amado Carrillo Fuentes for the fleet of airplanes used to move drugs for his Juarez cartel.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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