NEW YORK.- It is reported that Servando Gómez Martínez, alias “La Tuta”founder of “The Michoacan Family”pleaded not guilty to the drug trafficking charges against him, when appearing in the Eastern District Court of New York, in Brooklyn.
It should be noted that Gómez Martínez, one of the 26 criminals delivered by the Mexican government to the United States on August 12, 2025, rejected the charges against him.
These charges include conspiracy to import cocaine and methamphetamines to the United States from Mexico.
“The Michoacan Family”
Also narcoterrorism, having been designated “La Familia Michoacana” as a foreign terrorist organizationsystematic violence and money laundering.
Likewise, the judge set the next hearing – prior to trial – for June 24, at 11:30 a.m.
If prosecuted and found guilty, “La Tuta” could face life in prison.
It is important to mention that under the agreement with the United States, none of the criminals handed over by Mexico can be sentenced to life imprisonment.
“La Tuta” is imprisoned in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, in New York, the same prison where they are held. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Rafael Caro Quintero.
The capo “La Tuta” was the last leader of the criminal group “The Knights Templar”and founder of “La Familia Michoacana”.
The above together with Nazario Moreno González, “El Chayo” or “El Más Loco”; Carlos Rosales Mendoza, “El Tísico”, and José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, “El Chango”.
Servando Gómez Martínez “La Tuta”
Born in the municipality of Arteagain the mountain area of Michoacán, Gómez Martínez is remembered as a media boss who used social networks to spread videos of his meetings with local and state authorities. As well as to send messages to the government and its rivals.
He is also credited with the order to murder 12 intelligence elements of the defunct Federal Police.
Whose bodies were abandoned on the side of the Siglo XXI highway, in the municipality of La Huacana, in July 2009.
The same way, He was arrested in Mexico in February 2015. He was serving a 47-year prison sentence for organized crime and health crimes in various forms.
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