Culiacán.- In the Jardines de Humaya cemetery, one of the most exclusive in the state capital, Juan José Esparragoza Monzón “El Negro”, son of one of the founders of Sinaloa Cartel, of the same name, known as “El Azul”, was buried under the chords of the Sinaloan band and the release of blue and white balloons.
The farewell ceremony of Juan José Esparragoza Moreno’s son was private, with the attendance of ten family members and friends who carried gas balloons, which they released in his memory, while the music band played a corrido in his memory.
“El Negro” or “El Azulito”, As he was known, he died last Sunday of Covid-19, after being hospitalized for almost two months, with a different name, so elements of the Attorney General’s Office came to take genetic samples from his body and his fingerprints to certify your identity.
Juan José, who was wanted by federal and state authorities for his escape from the Culiacán penitentiary in March 2017, along with four other inmates, linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, received huge wreaths at the funeral home.
Initially, his body was deposited in a funeral home located in the Jorge Almada neighborhood, in the second square of the city, where a huge wreath of roses and flowers of various colors was deposited, with the initials RCQ. attributed to Rafael Caro Quintero, a member of the same generation of “El Azul.”
Shortly afterwards, his coffin was transferred to another funeral home, belonging to the same company, located in the exclusive Colinas subdivision, where he was privately watched by his relatives and on Tuesday afternoon, buried in the Jardines del Humaya pantheon, located in the south exit of Culiacán.
On January 19, 2017, Esparragoza Monzón “El Negro”, one of the 122 priority targets of the Federal Government, was detained in Culiacán by federal forces together with his bodyguard Jesús Alfonso Ríos Gómez, to whom weapons and drugs were assured.
Fifty-seven days later, he managed to escape from the Culiacán prison, together with Jesús Peña González “El 20”, Alfredo Limón Sánchez, Francisco Javier Zazueta Rosales “El Pancho Chimalli” and Rafael Guadalupe Félix Núñez “El Chanquito Ántrax”, all of them linked to the Sinaloa Cartel.
After his escape, it was announced that the chief of custodians of the Center for the Legal Consequences of the Crime of Culiacán, José Mario Murillo Rodríguez, disappeared, for which it is presumed that he joined the group of inmates.
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