Abel Barajas/ Reform Agency
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 17:05
Mexico City.- A federal court ultimately determined that the trial for the crime of organized crime initiated against José Ángel Casarrubias Salgado, “El Mochomo”, the presumed leader of Guerreros Unidos involved in the disappearance of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa, must continue.
The Second Collegiate Criminal Court of Toluca ruled that the formal prison sentence handed down on November 9, 2020 to the alleged drug trafficker, meets all legal requirements and there is no violation of his rights in that ruling.
“It was resolved to confirm the appealed ruling, considering that the criterion of the person responsible was adjusted to the law, as stated in the appeal, regarding the fact that from the records that appear in the records, efficient and sufficient data emerge to conclude that the body of the crimes attributed to the complainant and to have it proven, until the procedural moment in question, the probable criminal responsibility of the appellant herein in his commission”, reads the published agreement.
The magistrates of the collegiate definitively confirmed the amparo denied on September 17, 2021 by the Ninth District Court in that matter, in the State of Mexico.
In this matter, “El Mochomo” is accused of being somehow related to the Ayotzinapa case, since the FGR accuses him of being part of the bribes that the criminal group Guerreros Unidos would have delivered to soldiers from the 27th Infantry Battalion in Iguala, involved in the crime of the normalistas, committed on September 26, 2014.
“El Mochomo”, a prisoner in the Altiplano prison, has two ongoing processes and now this organized crime case has been confirmed for its continuation.
The other process is also for the crime of organized crime, but with the purpose of committing crimes against health, together with his lawyer Arturo Rodríguez García.
In July 2020, the audio of a telephone conversation between the litigant and Francelia Salgado, mother of the Casarrubias, was released, in which Rodríguez spoke of a negotiation to pay a bribe for the freedom of “El Mochomo”, who actually left prison. .
Casarrubias was arrested on June 24, 2020 in Metepec, State of Mexico, with an arrest warrant for crime related to the disappearance of normalistas in Iguala.
However, on July 1 of that year, the Second District Court for Federal Criminal Proceedings in Toluca ordered his release for lack of evidence.
A few days later, an audio was revealed in which a lawyer discussed with Francelia Salgado Patiño, Casarrubias’s mother, about a negotiation to pay a bribe for the freedom of the alleged drug trafficker.
The Federal Ministerial Police detained “El Mochomo” as he left the Altiplano prison and subjected him to house arrest.
Shortly after he returned to the same prison with the accusation against which he now lost the protection.
