Overview

• Jesús Leobardo “El Compa Chuy” was handed over by Mexico’s FGR at Mexico City International Airport under the U.S.–Mexico extradition treaty to the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
• He faces U.S. federal charges of criminal association, drug trafficking and money laundering stemming from large-scale marijuana smuggling.
• U.S. authorities allege his network installed communication towers in the Arizona desert, employed armed vigilantes along the Mexico-Phoenix highway and used ramp-equipped vehicles to breach the border.
• His April 2024 arrest in Huauchinango, Puebla, triggered joint efforts by Mexico’s FGR and U.S. agencies to build the extradition case against the Garibaldi-López organization.
• He remains in U.S. custody awaiting trial as investigators continue probing transnational trafficking networks.