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| Durango: July 18th Torreon Massacre Break in the Case -- UPDATED |
| 2010-07-25 |
| Google Translate. For a map, click here A Coahuila court has ordered the preventative detention of at least two of the CERESO officials, for 20 days. An "interrogation" video posted by groups associated with the Los Zetas criminal gang have apparently led to the arrest of seven people including a prison director in Durango, with suspected ties to the July 18th massacre in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican press reports. Sunday morning Mexican news reports say Rodriguez is to be detained without charge for 20 days pending an investigation for the charge of murder. Under Mexican Federal law certain persons can be detained for up to 40 days as a preventative measure if their alleged crimes are serious enough to warrant it. Lerdo, Durango police agent Rodolfo Najera, shown having been beaten in the video, apparently told Los Zetas members while at gunpoint that several people at the Gomez Palacio, Durango Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) No.2 planned and carried out the murder of 17 birthday party goers early on July 18th. Najera was one of four Lerdo police officers who came up missing since last Tuesday. Najera was subsequently murdered on the same video. Saturday was learned that director of the CERESO, Margarita Rojas Rodriguez as well as three of her staff, including a deputy director, Jose Luis Zaragoza, were placed under arrest for their alleged involvement the the July 18th and other similar mass murders. In other news reports Saturday, it was learned that three prison guards and one inmate were also placed under arrest as the alleged shooters in the incident. Other information has it that at least 31 guards at CERESO No. 2 are under investigation or arrest. Rojas Rodriguez had attended law school in Saltillo and took over operations at CERESO No.2 in August, 2009 from Ernesto Fernandez Perez who had been forced out after less than a month following a prison riot in which 20 inmates were killed. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 From NY Times today: Prisoners in a northern Mexico jail were allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs using jail guardsÂ’ weapons and vehicles. Among the jobs, the authorities said, was last weekÂ’s attack on birthday revelers at a party hall. The gang shot randomly into the crowd, they said, killing 17 people. Ballistics studies confirmed that four guns used in the shooting were the same as those assigned to jail guards, Ricardo Nájera, the spokesman for the attorney generalÂ’s office, said. Mr. Nájera said the jailÂ’s director, Margarita Rojas RodrÃguez, allowed prisoners to leave in official vehicles and use the guardsÂ’ guns in the executions. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-25 23:44 |
