Gulf Cartel: The Keys That Allowed La Kena To Not Be Charged

Mica for cartelinsider.com

After José Alberto García Vilano was captured near a department store, a judge in Tamaulipas determined not to prosecute a man who is believed to be La Kena, the alleged leader of a faction of the Gulf Cartel. The authorities in Tamaulipas were offering a reward of up to 2.5 million pesos for this individual.

And it is that according to various reports, La Kena would be involved in several crimes. It’s worth noting that the man allegedly participated in the kidnapping of four American citizens in Tamaulipas, two of whom were found dead.

During the morning of January 31st, the Federal Judges Organization (JUFED) shared a document specifying the reasons that led to La Kena not being linked to a legal process. The file was shared after the Ministry of the Interior presented a complaint of political impeachment against Judge Crescencio Contreras Martínez before the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Union.

Regarding the arrest of a man, possibly La Kena, the file details that there were three searches of various properties and two firearms and just over 205 grams of cocaine were found in one of them. There were no arrests made in these incidents.

However, one of the objects that was found was a driver’s license “under the name of the person identified.” Now, during the first hearing and before the man was charged, his defense requested a break of more than two hours, during which they spoke with their client and requested access to the investigation file, but some documents were not available.

“No notification had been given with the copies until that moment; after sufficient time had passed, the Federal Prosecutor only filed charges for the offenses committed during the mentioned search.”

That is to say, the prosecutor brought charges only for specific crimes, namely organized crime in the form of trafficking, as well as possession of firearms for the exclusive use of authorities.

Faced with these events, the accused person took refuge in the constitutional period of 144 hours. The continuation of the hearing was scheduled for 10:00 am on January 24, but did not happen because the defense argued that they had not been able to speak with their client, apparently not even knowing where they were.

Although cocaine hydrochloride was found during the raid, this element was not used to link it to any other clue that indicated that what was found by the authorities was intended for drug trafficking.

In the document, it can be read that the main clue found was the ID, which turned out to be false, at least with the information presented, therefore it could not be confirmed that the man resided at the site that was searched. “The prosecution did not support this circumstance with any other information, and did not gather any evidence to corroborate their statement.”

The JUFED ensures that the General Attorney’s Office of the Republic (FGR) could not prove the man’s membership in the criminal group. “They failed to fulfill their obligation to investigate,” the statement explains.

In summary, the document assures that, in their opinion, the judge acted in accordance with the law and the FGR was the one who acted “deficiently”, even though this favored the accused. Infobae Mexico tried to confirm that the person mentioned in the document was La Kena, or even if this man had been released, but did not receive a response from authorities or the JUFED.

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