Juarez City.- After three and a half hours of hearing, a federal control judge legally decreed the detention of five people accused of probable possession of an arsenal and almost five kilos of glass.
The detainees Jesús “N”, Erick “N”, Miguel “N”, Mariana “N” and Magdalena “N”, faced charges for the collection of firearms for the Exclusive Use of the Army and Armed Forces contemplated in article 83 Bis, Section I and II of the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives, as well as chargers and cartridges.
While Jesús “N” was accused of the probable possession of firearms, contained in article 83 of the same law.
They were also accused of crimes against health for the probable possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of sale, sanctioned in the General Health Law in its article 195, paragraph 1 and 3 and 194 section I.
During the development of the public hearing of criminal case 66/2023, the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) did not identify the defendants with any criminal group or the escape and riot of the Social Reintegration Center number 3, which left a balance of 26 escaped inmates, 17 dead and 13 injured, as the State Public Security Secretariat (SSPE) made public through a press release.
The social representation requested that the detention carried out in the house marked with the number 3808 of Balcón de la Luna street, in the Vistas Del Valle subdivision, be declared legal. When reading the informative part, the MPF, attached to the Specialized Prosecutor for Organized Crime (FEMDO), said that the intervention was derived from a call in which citizens warned that a person was deprived of liberty, for which reason the radio operator commissioned the agents of an inter-institutional cell to answer the call (folio 0705160827).
Outside the house they observed a white Chevrolet pickup truck and observed a man in the passenger seat carrying a rifle and pointing it at the agents; When they saw his life at risk, they tried to intercept him, so this person ran into the house and was followed by the officers. Inside the house they observed five adults and two minors, weapons, tactical equipment, bulletproof vests, and drugs, for which the adults were arrested and the war objects seized. A 16-year-old adolescent was presented before a Specialized Court and the 8-year-old boy was referred to Social Work of the Municipal Police, said the social representative.
In the debate, the legal defense of the detainees requested the federal control judge to declare the detention illegal because from the moment of the arrest to the availability of the MPF, 14:23 hours elapsed, so the delay was unjustifiable , because the people had to be consigned immediately. The argument was rejected by the judge, due to the number of people and the number of objects seized; the judge instructed the media to reserve the general data of the participants in the hearing held in Room 1 of the Federal Criminal Justice Center in this city.
The defendants reserved the right to testify and after the detention was declared legal, they were formally charged for the aforementioned crimes.
Because the five people had not eaten any food, one of them began to feel unwell, so a recess was declared for them to have dinner. The judge warned the MPF and the Attorney General of the Republic for this violation of the human rights of the detainees.
After restarting the hearing, the MPF said that a total of 25 firearms, 98 chargers, 5,623 cartridges were seized, of which almost 300 were expansive bullets, as well as 4,943.5 grams of methamphetamine (crystal).
After the accusation was formulated, the MPF scheduled the resumption of the hearing to link the process for January 30 at 1:00 p.m., when the defendants accepted at the end of 114 hours so that their legal situation could be defined.
At the request of the MPF, the judge determined the informal pretrial detention for 24 months, so the men will be admitted to Cereso 3 tonight and the two sisters to Cereso Femenil 2. The transfer of the defendants was carried out in the middle of a strong security device by the Army and the National Guard.
