John Lee Bishop: The story of the American pastor who ended up doing drug trafficking for the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación

John Lee Bishop has a strong connection with the Jalisco cartel. The American was a pastor of his country who gained great notoriety after founding his church "Hope alive"This brought together about eight thousand parishioners and this was considered the seventh growing church in this nation.

His congregation is located in a Kmart in Vancouver (Washington), a working-clbad suburb on the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon.. The neighbors of the place called it "Kmart church".

The Bishop's Church was a place where all the sectors that had been rejected by relics of religion were suitable.: gay teens, addicts, homeless, all those who feel excluded. John Lee accepted these people because he came from the same place as an unsuited and rejected person.

However, Bishop's big charity actions were tainted when it appeared that "Hope alive"He trafficked drugs for the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación and for whom to serve a five-year sentence.

It all started when the pastor's son, named David, introduced his father to the underworld.. In 2016, David Bishop was already a drug dealer and had a debt that the father had to pay. From that moment on, John Lee gained respect from the criminal organization to the point that he was asked to preside over the funeral of drug traffickers.

A few months earlier, he had been fired from his own congregation with his family. Without money and without work, Bishop accepted the proposal of a taxi driver friend to start drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States for the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación..

On December 11, 2017, the pastor arrived at the Tijuana border checkpoint in a gray Volkswagen Pbadat. The customs officer questioned him and the preacher answered that he had just finished a religious mission and was now heading to Chula Vista, California.

The troops noticed something suspicious, so they approached the car, squatted and they started checking the bottom where they found 105 packets of well-packed marijuana. They also located grbad shells from other parts of the car. Bishop was arrested immediately.

A review of Bishop's records showed that he had crossed the US-Mexican border into the Pbadat more than 57 times between January 24, 2017 and his arrest. in December of the same year. Authorities also learned that he had completed the transfer of Mexican heroin to Vancouver.

United States District Court documents in San Diego revealed that Michelle Bishop, his wife, and their son David, 33, were involved in drug trafficking. and that they spent tithe cruising and in a Disney theme park.

The bishop pleaded guilty in February 2018 and on November 21, he was sentenced to five years in prison on a charge of federal drug trafficking. In December, he appealed his sentence.