Background
Martinez Espinoza was born in Apatzingán, Michoacán on December 28, 1959 to Jesús Preciado and Juana Espinoza. His mother Juana was later remarried to Vicente Martínez after his father died.
Martinez Espinoza was born in Apatzingán, Michoacán on December 28, 1959 to Jesús Preciado and Juana Espinoza. His mother Juana was later remarried to Vicente Martínez after his father died.
Martínez adopted all of Espinoza"s children, giving them his last name. Martinez Espinoza is married to Rosalba Soltero Naranjo (born July 23, 1961) of Tecolotlán, Jalisco. They have two children, Rosalba Adriana Preciado and Jessica Preciado Soltero.
From 1979 to 1986, Martínez Espinoza worked at a business in a wholesale market called Louisiana Michoacana in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Due to his success, he opened another outlet in the Ponceano Arriaga market, also in Guadalajara. After 1990, he started a small chain of car washes, also named Jessica in Guadalajara.
During the 1990s, he opened a car wash called Sales Apatzingan in Santa Ana, California and a taquería or taco restaurant named Apatzinganin Anaheim, California. Since the late 1990s, Martínez Espinosa has worked selling and exporting leather and leather products with the company Arte Mexicano con Vida South. A. He has promoted small businesses in León, Guanajuato, helping them band together to export leather products.
In 2008 he started Verona South America de Curriculum Vitae to sell leather products.
In July 2008, Martínez Espinosa was accused of making and selling methamphetamine. He was arrested while sleeping at a hotel in Asunción, Paraguay on October 2, 2008.
He denies all charges. He is being held in a prison in Marcos Paz, Unidad Penitenciaria Federal II de Marcos Paz, Argentina.