The son of the ultimate leader of the Gulf Cartel pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle rifles from Texas to Mexico while on parole.
The troubled cartel heir has a history of arrests in Texas and still faces assault charges in a Brownsville bar stabbing incident.
The smuggling case began in April 2021, when Jose Roberto “Hurraco” Molina Medrano contacted a man to help him purchase several firearms, court documents revealed. However the man that Hurraco worked with was a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives asset. During the meetings, Hurraco revealed that he was purchasing the weapons for Cardenas Salinas.
Despite the case starting in April, it was not until December when U.S. Marshals arrested Cardenas at a luxurious home in Brownsville. The initial arrest was tied to a stabbing at a local bar. Cardenas and another man were recorded in surveillance video attacking two victims in response to an earlier altercation. Cardenas still faces state charges.
Cardenas’ first federal felony arrest came in January 2015 when he tried to smuggle hundreds of rounds and weapons parts into Mexico
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