‘El Cepillo’, linked to the disappearance of normalistas, is re-arrested

Mexico City. Personnel from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) re-arrested Felipe Salgado Rodríguez, The Brushidentified as one of those responsible for the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.

Rodríguez Salgado was arrested on the basis of an arrest warrant for organized crime at his home in the Las Vigas neighborhood in Acapulco, Guerrero.

The arrest was carried out early yesterday morning, during an operation led by personnel from the Federal Ministerial Police, and was placed at the disposal of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office at the FGR facilities in that city.

After being arrested in 2015, during the interrogations he was subjected to The Brush o The Stubborn Oneidentified as a member of a group of hitmen at the service of United Warriorstold the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR) that he had killed more than 10 students from the “Raúl Isidro Burgos” rural normal school, known as Ayotzinapa, with gunshots in the early hours of September 27, 2014.

He was also one of the detainees who declared that he had taken a group of students who had been deprived of their freedom in the city of Iguala to the municipal dump in Cocula and after having incinerated their bodies, they put the remains in bags which they later threw into the Cocula River.

In June 2018, Rodríguez Salgado was released by a federal judge based in Tamaulipas, in compliance with an amparo ruling, considering that there was not enough evidence in the file against him for the crime of organized crime, since for the justice administrator, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office did not prove the existence of the criminal group. United Warriors.

Likewise, the First Collegiate Court based in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, granted him freedom for the accusations against him for the disappearance of the students, considering that the statements made were obtained through acts of torture, a situation from which Gildardo López Astudillo also benefited. Cape Gila regional leader of United Warriorswho was re-arrested a few days ago.