Wife of Mexican cartel kingpin El Mencho is arrested 

The wife of one of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords has been arrested. 

Rosalinda Garcia was detained in the Guadalajara suburb of Zapopon in the Western state of Jalisc. The reason for her arrest is currently unclear. 

Garcia is married to Nemesio Oseguera, the leader of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) who is also known as El Mencho.

Oseguera and his cartel have been blamed for rising heroin shipments to the US and waves of bloody executions. 

Officials have claimed that the CJNG and Sinaloa Cartel supply most of the illicit heroin market in the US, according to Sky News. 

In March, Oseguera was named the ‘top target’ by the US Drug Enforcement Administration after El Chapo (pictured) was extradited to the US to face trial

The cartels have been fighting for control of the American market since El Chapo, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested in 2016 after escaping twice from prison.

Rosalinda Garcia, Oseguera’s wife, was detained in the Guadalajara suburb of Zapopon in the Western state of Jalisc. The reason for her arrest is currently unclear

In March, Oseguera was named the ‘top target’ by the US Drug Enforcement Administration after El Chapo was extradited to the US to face trial. 

It claimed Oseguera has used ‘extreme violence, corruption, and extortion’ to expand his cartel’s share of the heroin trade.

The US State Department said Oseguera turned his regional organization into an ‘international organized crime power involved with the production and distribution of narcotics throughout the world’. 

It is offering a reward of up to $5million for information that could lead to his arrest or conviction.

Oseguera and his cartel have been blamed for rising heroin shipments to the US and waves of bloody executions in Mexico