Mexican man who posed as drug trafficker is sent to prison

A Mexican man was held in Puente Grande maximum security prison after posing as a member of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) on Facebook.

He called himself "El M Juárez" and shared with his over 2,000 friends messages and photos advocating violence, according to sources from Jalisco's Prosecutor's Office.

In one of his last posts before his arrest on October 3 he shared a video opening a box that contained a gold-plated gun encrusted with diamonds.

In the message he thanked his "boss", Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, for the gift. However after his arrest authorities found out that the 24-year-old man was in fact a forklift operator and had no relation with organized crime or drug trafficking, and that he simply took the photographs and videos from websites containing information on drug trafficking and posted them as his own.

He could be sentenced from one to six months in prison.