Tirso Martínez Sánchez, known as “Football player”And one of the witnesses in the judgment from Joaquin “El Chapo”Guzmán Loera, was sentenced today in the court of Brooklyn, New York, to seven years in prison Given the time he has already been imprisoned – he was extradited to the United States in 2015 – he would only have three years left behind bars.
Martínez, arrested in Mexico in 2014, worked for the Sinaloa and Ciudad Juárez cartels between 1995 and 2003 and pleaded guilty to drug distribution in the United States and Europe.
For the crimes he was accused of, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but he managed to reduce his sentence by agreeing to testify at the trial of “El Chapo.”
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“Football player”, named for his love of that sport, said he bought professional football teams in the cities of Querétaro, Celaya, Irapuato, La Piedad and Mérida, all of which he acquired with money from drug trafficking.
He was also fond of cockfighting, where he came to bet $ 100,000 per fight.
In total, he lost between two and three million dollars in bets on roosters he made in palenques in numerous cities in Mexico, according to his testimony.
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Also, his fortune allowed him to acquire a restaurant in Tijuana, four businesses selling clothes, a small plane, horses, cars, as well as a car dealership in Los Angeles and a restaurant in the state of Illinois.
In the so-called trial of the century, Martinez said he used freight trains that reached Los Angeles, Chicago and New York and that, under orders from “El Chapo”, sent more than 50 tons of cocaine to the United States.
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