10 arrested on the drug poster

Ten men arrested on a farm linked to a drug poster in the Mexican state of Jalisco were declared guilty of murder and kidnapping in a high profile trial that concluded on Monday, said the prosecutor’s office.

Izaguirre’s “horror ranch”, as some local media have been called, supposedly served as a Forced Recruitment Center For the New Generation of Jalisco (CJNG), one of the most powerful criminal gangs in the country.

The men were convicted 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 exchanged shots with the Police and the National Guard officers.

“Inside, the ten suspects were arrested, and one person was found dead, while two others that had been arrested were released,” said Jalisco’s prosecutor’s office.

He Collective search enginea group dedicated to locating missing relatives, he reported in March that hundreds of objects and clothing, including dozens of shoes – It had been found in the same property, supposedly belonging to missing persons who had been forced to join the poster.

The group also declared that they found probable 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 carried out the investigation, declared that he did not find evidence to confirm these accusations, although he said that the farm served as a criminal training center.

A recruit that according to reports He survived the ranch He said that the poster collected recruits in the bus stations under false claims and took them to the ranch where they were trained for a month in the use of weapons in addition to physical training, said Public Security Secretary of Mexico, Omar García Harfuch. Those who rejected orders or tried to escape were beaten, tortured and killed.

Since March, another 15 people, including a mayor and police, have been arrested in relation to this site.

The case has received significant press coverage in a country where more than 100,000 people have disappeared, most of them since 2006 when the federal government launched a widely criticized anti -drug military operation.

The Jalisco poster is directed by Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantesfor whom the United States government has offered a $ 15 million reward for information that leads to its capture.

Last month, his brother -in -law was sentenced Up to 30 years in the Federal Prison of the United States after his arrest in 2017 in a beach resort in Brazil while on vacation with his family under a false name.

Also in June, the United States Department of State announced that it was sanctioning five CJNG leaders, including “El Mencho”, as specially designated global terrorists.

The posters of Jalisco and Sinaloa have fought for the control of several parts of Mexico, including the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala. Both are among the six Mexican organized crimes groups designated as foreign terrorist organizations for the United States government earlier this year.

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