 He was sentenced to 10 years and three months and imprisoned at the Federal Social Readaptation Center No.1, a maximum security prison in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico.Unlike the rest of his brothers who eventually led the Tijuana Cartel and made it one of the leading and most violent drug trafficking organizations in Mexico during the 1990s, Francisco Rafael was not a key player in the cartel's hegemony.