Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo

Jesús Hector Gutiérrez Rebollo (19 April 1934 – 19 December 2013) was a Mexican military general who was sentenced to 40 years in prison on multiple charges, including involvement in organized crime in the late nineties.

Jesus Gutiérrez Rebollo
Born
Jesus Hector Gutierrez Rebollo

(1934-04-19)19 April 1934
Jonacatepec, Morelos, Mexico
Died19 December 2013(2013-12-19) (aged 79)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationMilitary Officer, Public Official
EmployerSecetaria de la Defensa Nacioal
TitleDivision General Drug Czar of Mexico
Spouse(s)Lilia Esther Priego
ChildrenJesus Hector Gutierrez Rebollo Priego, Cesar Mario Gutierrez Priego, Israel Gutierrez Priego
Notes
Sentenced to 40 years in prison
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gutiérrez and the second or maternal family name is Rebollo.

Biography

He was born in 1934 in Jonacatepec, Morelos.[1] He was a career soldier who rose to the rank of Division General. He commanded the Fifth Military Region based in Jalisco, and worked for the office of the Attorney General where he was appointed the country's top-ranking drug interdiction officer in 1996 as head of the Instituto Nacional para el Combate a las Drogas (INCD).[2]

Gutiérrez had access to local intelligence and to intelligence provided to Mexico by the United States, including anti-drug investigations, wiretaps, interdiction programs, operations and informant identities. He is survived by his son, Jesus Hector Gutierrez Rebollo Priego.

Arrest and charges

The authorities began investigating Gutiérrez on February 6, 1997, after they received a tip that he had moved into an expensive apartment "whose rent could not be paid for with the wage received by a public servant." Mexican authorities also obtained a recording of Gutiérrez and drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes in which Gutiérrez allegedly discussed payments to be made to him in exchange for ignoring Carrillo Fuentes' illegal drug activities.[2] Gutiérrez was taken into custody and charged with bribery, perverting the course of justice and facilitating the transportation of cocaine. Gutiérrez Rebollo later was convicted of aiding the drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes.[3]

Early in 1997, he was fired from his post after an investigation showed that he had received bribes from the Juárez drug cartel.[4] He was sentenced to 31 years 10 months 15 days imprisonment for misuse of weapons restricted to the Army. In 2007 he was sentenced by a federal court to a further forty years imprisonment and a fine of 24,716,829 pesos.

Death

Gutiérrez died of brain cancer at the Central Military Hospital in Mexico City on 19 December 2013, while he was serving his 40-year sentence. He was 79.[5]

Film and TV

Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker, whose lives affect each other although they do not meet. The character General Arturo Salazar is closely modeled after General Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo.

The telenovela El Señor de los Cielos is loosely based on the life of Amado Carrillo Fuentes and how he was helped by General Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo.[6]

References
  1. México, El Universal, Compañia Periodística Nacional. "Perfil General Gutiérrez Rebollo enfrentó 14 procesos". eluniversal.com.mx.
  2. General Gutierrez to Head Up Mexico's War Against Drugs (December 6, 1996).
  3. "Cartel worker reportedly spied on DEA in Mexico - CNN.com". 2008-10-29. Archived from the original on 2008-10-29.
  4. "Mexican Drug Czar Fired, Charged With Drug Corruption". www.ndsn.org.
  5. "Muere el general Gutiérrez Rebollo". Milenio (in Spanish). 19 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  6. "El Señor de los Cielos (The Lord of the Skies)". Telmundo.com. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
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