Mysterious exercise reported at California house linked to El Mencho daughter

The eldest daughter of “El Mencho” quietly snapped up a suburban California house after serving time for laundering drug cash — and baffled neighbors say she’s had no scarcity of money to renovate the place.

They are saying unusual vehicles — some bearing Mexican license plates — seem and disappear from the property whereas mysterious guests come and go.

Jessica Johana Oseguera Gonzalez, 39 — generally known as “La Negra” — bought a newly constructed five-bedroom home in Winchester, Southern California, for $590,000 in September 2023. She apparently paid money for the property about 18 months after being launched from federal jail. Her presence has left neighbors within the usually quiet cul-de-sac feeling deeply uneasy.

“We’ve all the time thought one thing uncommon was happening there,” neighbor Dan Watschke, 85, instructed The Put up.

Watschke and his spouse Nancy moved into the home subsequent door on Oct. 1, 2023 — simply days after Oseguera Gonzalez purchased the property.

“She clearly had cash to spend — some huge cash,” Dan stated. “These are brand-new properties, however from what I perceive she mainly gutted it.”

Contractors tore out cabinetry within the kitchen and bogs and changed them with marble and high-end home equipment, he stated. A crane even lifted bushes over the roof and into the yard as a part of an intensive landscaping overhaul.

“They put in a placing inexperienced and a pool and spa within the yard,” Watschke stated. “I all the time thought she will need to have a vast checking account due to the cash going into that home.”

The enhancements bumped into the tens of hundreds of {dollars}, in line with the neighbors. However regardless of the lavish upgrades, the house usually seems empty.

“What has all the time been very unusual is that I by no means see anyone there,” Dan stated. “I see vehicles coming and going on a regular basis, however I by no means see anyone really dwelling there.”

Nancy Watschke, additionally 85, stated the girl who launched herself as a single mom with two daughters instructed them she paid money for the home.

“She stated she was a mom with two grown daughters,” Nancy stated. “She instructed us she paid money for the home.”

Nonetheless, the neighbors rapidly felt one thing wasn’t proper.

“From the start we felt one thing wasn’t proper about that home,” Nancy stated.

Automobiles — generally costly fashions — are sometimes left parked on the property for days and even weeks with out anybody showing to remain there, she stated.

“Generally vehicles could be there for 2 or three days after which they’d be gone once more,” Nancy stated.

On one current go to, a Mini Cooper Countryman with Baja California plates was sitting within the driveway. Different automobiles with Mexican plates have appeared there up to now.

The comings and goings have fueled suspicions among the many aged couple.

“There have been events the place a U-Haul backed up into the storage they usually had been both dropping stuff off or selecting stuff up,” Nancy stated.

“At one level I assumed perhaps she was bringing illegals over — folks coming out and in being paid,” she added. “I didn’t know precisely what was happening, however one thing appeared off.”

Regardless of their issues, they are saying Oseguera Gonzalez herself has all the time been well mannered.

“She’s all the time been nice with us,” Dan stated. “She helped me as soon as after I purchased an out of doors fridge. I’m 85 years previous and she or he helped the neighbor and me take it off the truck.”

However sightings of her have been uncommon.

“We haven’t actually seen her,” Nancy stated. “I haven’t seen her this 12 months.”

Oseguera Gonzalez served roughly 25 months behind bars after pleading responsible in the USA to 5 counts of cash laundering. Prosecutors stated she violated the US International Narcotics Kingpin Act by conducting enterprise with firms linked to her father’s infamous Jalisco New Technology Cartel

Authorities stated she helped funnel proceeds from fentanyl, cocaine and different drug gross sales into companies she operated in Mexico — together with bars and sushi eating places in Jalisco, Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara, in addition to a tequila model referred to as Onze Black.

A twin US-Mexican citizen born in San Francisco, she was launched from jail in March 2022.

Her estranged husband, Julio Alberto Castillo Rodriguez, is believed to be a high-ranking member of the cartel and has been rumored to be in line to take over management following the demise of El Mencho.

The Winchester property in Riverside County sits simply 12 miles from a café in Perris run by Oseguera Gonzalez’s youthful sister, Laisha Oseguera Gonzalez, 24.

Prospects say the café has a pleasant neighborhood vibe and lots of had been shocked to be taught it was linked to the household of one in all Mexico’s most infamous drug lords.

“It’s a standard place, and she or he’s very nice,” one common beforehand instructed The Put up. “One thing just like the cartel would by no means cross folks’s minds.”

Laisha has additionally stored a low profile regardless of the dramatic story surrounding her household.

Her husband, Cristian Gutierrez-Ochoa — generally known as “El Gaucho” — is a suspected cartel lieutenant who allegedly faked his demise in Mexico earlier than resurfacing in California beneath a false identification.

Authorities say he later bought a $1.2 million Riverside house in money and was finally arrested in 2024 for trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine into the US and laundering thousands and thousands in drug proceeds. He was sentenced to 11 years in jail final 12 months.

In the meantime, cartel violence triggered by El Mencho’s demise has reportedly left dozens useless throughout Mexico.

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