Ten men arrested in a Farm linked to a drug cartel In the Mexican state of Jalisco, he was found guilty of murder and kidnapping in a high -level trial which ended on Monday, said the prosecutor’s office.
Izaguirre “Ranch of Horror,” As some local media have nicknamed it forced recruitment center For the cartel of the new generation of Jalisco, or CJNG, one of the most powerful criminal gangs in the country.
Men have been found guilty of “disappearance committed by individuals” and “qualified homicide”, according to a statement from the Jalisco prosecutor’s office.
The men were arrested last September when they traded with police and officers of the National Guard.
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“Inside, the ten suspects were arrested and a person was found dead, while two other detainees were released,” the Jalisco prosecutor’s office said.
THE GUERREROS BUSCADORES COLLECTIVEA group dedicated to the location of missing parents, in March reported that hundreds of objects and clothing – including dozens of shoes – had been found on the same property, belonging to missing persons who had been forced to join the cartel.
The group also said they found it likely Carbonized human remains And that the site had been a kind of “extermination center” for the CJNG.
But the Office of the Attorney General, who conducted the investigation, said that he had not found any evidence to confirm these allegations, although she said that the farm was a criminal training center.
A recruit that would have survived the ranch Said that the cartel had picked up recruits in bus stations under false pretexts and took them to the ranch where they were trained for a month in the use of weapons in addition to fitness training, said the public security secretary of Mexico, Omar García Harfuch. Those who refused the orders or tried to escape were beaten, tortured and killed.
Since March, around fifteen other people, including a mayor and the police, have been arrested as part of this site.
The case received significant media coverage in a country where more than 100,000 people have disappeared, most of them since 2006, when the federal government launched a largely criticized anti-drug military operation.
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The Jalisco cartel is led by Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” daresgue CervantesFor whom the American government has offered a $ 15 million award For more information leading to his capture.
Last month, his brother-in-law was sentenced At 30 in the American federal prison after his arrest in 2017 in a seaside resort in Brazil during his vacation with his family under a false name.
In June, the US State Department announced that it sanctioned five CJNG leaders, including “El Mencho”, as a specially designated global terrorists.
The Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels fought in control of various parts of Mexico, including the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala. The two are among the six groups of Mexican organized crimes appointed as foreign terrorist organizations by the American government earlier this year.