Manuel Antonio Herrera-Hernandez is accused of shooting a man multiple times in a remote Oconto County Park. A major drug investigation in Brown County, Wisconsin, subsequently revealed that he is affiliated with the Jalisco “New Generation Drug Cartel” in Mexico and was an “illegal Mexican national,” according to Oconto County Sheriff Todd Skarban. The criminal complaint said authorities confiscated large amounts of meth, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl during the investigation.

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FILE #17

The Defendant: Manuel Antonio Herrera-Hernandez

The Jail: Oconto County Jail

The Charges: 1st Degree Intentional Homicide (Jury trial scheduled for January. Oconto County case).

15 other charges in Brown County, 14 of them felonies, including delivery of amphetamine; possess short-barreled shotgun; methamphetamine possession; delivery of heroin; possession of cocaine; maintaining a drug house, bail jumping and multiple other charges.

Date and Place of Offense: On Feb. 22, 2021 in Oconto County for the homicide

The Victim: M.G.P., an illegal immigrant

Immigration details:

According to WBAY, Herrera-Hernandez was “physically removed to Mexico… in February of 2013″ following convictions in Virginia in 2010 for possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and a firearm violation.”

In 2018, in federal court in Wisconsin, “Hernandez was charged for illegal re-entry after an aggravated felony,” WBAY-TV reported, adding that he was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison.

According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette he told a judge “he’d been granted asylum in Chicago because ‘some family members were killed in Mexico.'”

The Details:

Manuel Antonio Herrera-Hernandez is accused of shooting a man multiple times in a remote Oconto County Park. A major drug investigation in Brown County, Wisconsin, subsequently revealed that he is affiliated with the Jalisco “New Generation Drug Cartel” in Mexico and was an “illegal Mexican national,” according to Oconto County Sheriff Todd Skarban. The criminal complaint said authorities confiscated large amounts of meth, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl during the investigation.

During the investigation, Skarban says authorities also found a trap door leading to a root cellar under a rug beneath a kitchen table in a Victorian style home in Green Bay that contained what appeared to be evidence of possible human trafficking – a box spring, underwear, and that kind of thing. Authorities believe the defendant controlled drug activity in five communities – Clintonville, Shawano, Green Bay, Oconto, and Marinette. “One guy can disrupt and control five small cities,” the sheriff alleged.

“We believe he has cartel affiliation,” Skarban told WRN. “He would be like the lead guy or the boss of this area.” He said Herrera-Hernandez is accused of shooting an “illegal Mexican national who owed him a debt,” calling him an “accused killer who will be tried by a jury of his peers. Two guys who are not supposed to be in the country bring that level of violence up here, where it’s Mayberry.”

Skarban described Herrera-Hernandez as “Public enemy number 1 around here. We don’t have homicides up here generally.”

The cartel in question is a “Mexican criminal group that emerged as a splinter group of the Milenio Cartel – one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s allies…Initially, the group operated as an armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel.”

Starting on Sept. 25 and through the presidential election, we have been telling readers about different inmates with ICE detainers who are accused of committing serious crimes in Wisconsin. We are highlighting a range of serious crimes.

Border security – and the weak immigration policies of Kamala Harris and Tammy Baldwin – have become a key topic in the presidential election. Every state is a border state.

According to the criminal complaint:

Authorities found the victim dead in a ditch on Feb. 22, 2021, along Lade Beach road. Gunshot wounds riddled his body on his left arm and side, chest, and right side, armpit, and back. He also had cuts on his head and ear.

The complaint describes Herrera-Hernandez as a methamphetamine dealer. He was arrested in May in the Brown County drug investigation. The victim was also a known drug dealer. At that time, a woman who was also arrested in the drug investigation told police about the homicide.

When authorities interviewed Herrera-Hernandez, he confessed that the victim owed him drug money and so he and a female suspect drove the victim to Little Suamico, parking in the Green Bay Shores State Wildlife Area, the complaint says. He claimed the “gun just went off” after an argument and that the cartel supplied the drugs.

In the Brown County drug investigation, authorities confiscated fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and meth. Herrera-Hernandez was stopped in a traffic stop. They found black tar heroin and meth at his hotel room in Allouez. They found more drugs at a home in Green Bay, the complaint says.

Past Cases in Wisconsin: Operating without a valid license. Delivery of amphetamine, possess THC, possess drug paraphernalia, bail jumping – pending case. Released on bail in Wisconsin before the homicide.

“At the local level, we are dealing with a federal problem. We don’t have the resources to be able to do some of these things, and they aren’t supposed to be here, but they are here doing crime. It’s costing local dollars,” he said.

In a separate case, the sheriff said the county previously dealt with massive marijuana grows in the Nicolet National Forest that they believe were “cartel-related,” back in 2010.