Adán Medrano Rodríguez, Date of Birth

    

Adán Medrano Rodríguez

Mexican drug lord

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1969

Profession: drug trafficker

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Adán Medrano Rodríguez

  • Adán Javier Medrano Rodríguez (born 24 December 1969), also known as El Licenciado (The Professional), is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas.
  • He joined the cartel during the 1990s, and was a trusted enforcer of former kingpin Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.
  • His roles in the cartel were managing drug shipments from Guatemala to Mexico, supervising murders ordered by Cárdenas, and coordinating cash transfers from the U.S.
  • to Mexico. In 1999, Medrano and his associates threatened two U.S.
  • agents at gunpoint in Matamoros after the agents traveled there with an informant to gather intelligence on the cartel's operations.
  • The agents and informant returned to the U.S.
  • unharmed, and the incident triggered a massive manhunt for Medrano and the rest of the cartel leadership.
  • A US$2 million bounty was offered for his capture, and he was charged with a number of crimes.
  • Medrano was arrested in 2002, and sentenced to 44 years in prison in 2006.
  • He was unexpectedly released from prison during the early 2010s.

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