Say hello to our little cell: Mexican drug lord nicknamed ‘El Tony Montana’ gets 22.5 years in US prison

Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, a Mexican cartel figure known as “El Tony Montana”, has been sentenced to 22.5 years in a US prison for drug trafficking and firearm offences. US officials say he helped build the Jalisco cartel into a major organisation and supplied large quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine to the United States.

Cervantes, 67, pleaded guilty in July to conspiring to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for import into the US and possessing a firearm in connection with the crimes. He joined the Milenio Cartel around 2002, later worked for the Jalisco cartel, and was arrested in Mexico in 2022 before being extradited to the US in February 2025. His brother, cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, was killed in a Mexican military raid in February.