José Manuel Garza Rendón, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Mexican drug lord
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Place of Birth: Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
About José Manuel Garza Rendón
- José Manuel Garza Rendón (born 7 December 1952), also known as La Brocha ("The Brush"), is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas.
- In 1979, he was convicted of drug-related charges in the U.S.
- Back in Mexico in 1985, Garza Rendón joined the Federal Judicial Police; released in 1989, he joined the Gulf Cartel.
- His roles in the cartel were managing drug shipments from the U.S.
- to Mexico and serving as bodyguard to former kingpin Osiel Cárdenas Guillén. In 1999, Garza Rendón 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.
- Although the agents and informant returned to the U.S.
- unharmed, the incident triggered a manhunt for him and other cartel leaders.
- Garza Rendón surrendered to U.S.
- authorities in Texas in 2001, and was convicted of drug trafficking.
- In the U.S., he became an informant about the cartel's operations.
- Released and deported to Mexico in 2009, Garza Rendón was re-arrested and imprisoned for additional charges.
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