Juarez City.- The investigation into the murder of Carlos Eduardo Ortega Meléndez, a 20-year-old university student, reveals that the sale of drugs in bars in the city continues to grow, and there is currently no specific program to prevent and dismantle criminal groups. that have been embedded in these businesses.
The joint operations between the police forces and the Army, accompanied by the National Guard, which are summoned by the State Government, are suspended, personnel from the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) reported yesterday.
“They no longer called, that is a prevention work in support of the Interior,” staff from the Prosecutor’s Office reported yesterday.
Alejandro Jiménez Vargas, head of the North Zone Governance Directorate, said that this issue is the responsibility of the authorities that have the power to prevent and investigate these crimes, so he hopes that “little by little they will carry out the work they have to do to eradicate this problem”.
He said that this year they have closed three businesses where the Secretary of State Public Security (SSPE) located narcotics.
The businesses reopened their doors after they demonstrated to the Interior that the drug sellers were not their employees and after paying the corresponding fines.
The drugs located by the preventive agents were marijuana and cocaine.
According to the data provided by the FGE, they have detected that in the so-called safe corridors such as the one on Manuel Gómez Morín avenue, the criminal group identified as “La Empresa” operates, selling cocaine, “stone” and marijuana.
They also carry out their illegal activities in businesses located on Tomás Fernández avenue and shopping malls where bars and canteens have been established, such as Paseo de la Victoria, Tecnológico and others.
During the hearing to link the process against Diego Uriel RL for the crime of homicide and injuries, co-authored, according to criminal case 2315/2023, it emerged that one of the men detained for investigation was in the business with the company name Cervecería 19, where he bought cocaine for alleged personal use.
The detainee, who voluntarily testified before the judge who heard the criminal case, said that he liked the party and had acquired the drug for personal consumption. However, his statement was contradictory, since the social representation asked him to read the statement he issued before the Public Ministry on April 13.
He said that he worked for Diego Uriel, whom he identified as a member of “La Empresa,” along with another man whom he identified as Samuel.
These people are related to Óscar, the man who allegedly ordered Alexis Franco Tornero to shoot the student at the UACJ Institute of Engineering.
According to the FGE’s investigation, Diego Uriel was allegedly selling drugs at the Silver Fox bar when they ordered him to go to Plaza Bistro, to hand over the weapon used in Carlos Eduardo’s crime.
Diego Uriel and his defender refuted the accusations of the Prosecutor’s Office by maintaining that he does not belong to any criminal group, and works in his own carpentry shop to support himself with dignity. As evidence against him is a video in which he supposedly appears when Alexis returned the other day for the car that she left in the square after committing the crime.
The carpenter assured that the unit was acquired through the Facebook social network and was owed 5,000 pesos in the commercial transaction, only that due to lack of money he did not make the change of owner, an error that according to the lawyer has him facing a legal problem, by maintaining that his client is not a drug lord.
In the case of the witness, arrested after leaving the brewery in a Nissan Máxima car, which Alexis probably used to get to Plaza Bistro, he said that the unit was taken to his workshop to have him fix the transmission, but He used it to “stop” the car and at that moment he was arrested. The person obtained his freedom after accusing Diego Uriel, it transpired at the hearing.
