Edgar Fabian Villasenor Garcia biography: 10 things about CJNG member

Who is Edgar Fabian Villasenor Garcia?

Edgar Fabian Villasenor Garcia is a Mexican man accused of participating in the distribution of large quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine destined for the United States. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He is also known as El Gary and el Monje.
2. He was born in 1971.
3. He is an armed member of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), a Mexican criminal syndicate founded on August 31, 2009 and a designated foreign terrorist organization in the U.S.
4. Before 2017, he joined the CJNG and carried a firearm in furtherance of the criminal operations of the group.
5. After the kidnapping of businessman Jorge Antonio Castillo Rodríguez in Ixtlahuacán, Jalisco, Mexico on February 10, 2018, he was named as one of the suspects in the attack of Jalisco police commander Rogelio Sánchez Andrade, who was shot in January 2018 by two men while he was eating at a restaurant in  San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
6. On April 2, 2020, Mexican authorities arrested him on aggravated kidnapping charges and booked him into the Centro Federal de Readaptación Social No. 15 in Chiapas, Mexico.
7. On July 19, 2021, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., USA indicted him while he was in Mexican custody and charged him with conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, knowing and intending and having reasonable cause to believe that those controlled substances would be unlawfully imported into the U.S. and knowingly and intentionally using, carrying and brandishing a firearm in the furtherance of drug trafficking crimes.
8. In 2023, he appeared in court in the U.S.
9. In 2024, he admitted in court that CJNG members advanced their mandate through firearms and violence.
10. In 2025, he was sentenced to 20 years and 10 months in prison.

TIMELINE

2023

• On September 15, 2023, he was extradited from Mexico to the U.S.
• On September 18, 2023, he made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Northwest, Washington, D.C.

2024

• In November 2024, he pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges.

2025

• He was sentenced in Washington, D.C. to 20 years and 10 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that distributed large quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine destined for the U.S.

La FGR entregó al gobierno de Estados Unidos a Edgar Fabián Villaseñor García, alias ‘El Gary’ o ‘El Monje’, presunto líder de un organización criminal dedicada al tráfico de drogas.#DPC con @nacholozano @NINACERVANTES pic.twitter.com/G2nJpPtehL

— De Pisa y Corre (@PisayCorreTV) September 18, 2023