Don Chelo of CJNG gunned down in firefight ten days after leaving prison

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article.

Subject Matter: Don Chelo, Jose Luis Gutierrez Valencia
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Jose Luis Gutierrez Valencia, who organized a narco party in the Puente Grande prison in 2013, died in a gunfight with the Mexican Marines at Rancho La Esperanza in Jalisco

Reporter: Milenio Digital
Ten days after being freed from the Puente Grande prison, Jose Luis Gutierrez Valencia, Don Chelo, alleged member of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion died during a confrontation with the Secretary of the Marines on a ranch in Tonala, informed sources from the Attorney Generals Office of Jalisco.

Around 03:00 am, Marines carried out an operation on the La Esperanza ranch and had a confrontation with armed men, that left two Marine elements wounded and three civilians dead, among them Don Chelo.

On the 9th of May, Milenio published fragments of a video of two hours duration of a party organized in 2013 inside the Puente Grande prison organized by Don Chelo who during the years of his incarceration controlled the prison.

One of the members of Los Buchones de Culiacan, a band that played at the party, grabbed the mic and said: ” Viva Jalisco Nueva Generacion”, while the prisoners shouted and applauded. One day after, the then Attorney General of Jalisco, Eduardo Almaguer, said that Don Chelo, doesn’t have any privileges and does not control the prison of Puente Grande.

He explained that in July of 2015, when he took office, there were 6200 inmates at the prison, despite only having an official capacity for 2744.

The narco party, he explained, was carried out in 2013 with the permission of the head of custody of that prison, Enrique Huerta Balcazar, who was fired on November 21st of that year, for committing various irregularities in his functions.

Unofficial sources say that Don Chelo is the father of the partner of Ruben Oseguera, son of Nemesio Osegura, El Mencho, leader of the CJNG. He was released on 24th of November by a Judge of the Third District after being absolved of the crimes of carrying arms for the exclusive use of the armed forces, possession of grenades, and corruption of minors.