The ambulance-type van in which Armando Hernández and Jorge Ángel Espinoza were traveling bore Red Cross symbols. Photo: Twitter/cruzrojatj

And convicted federal judge two men for their responsibility for crimes against health in the form of transportation of aggravated methamphetamine hydrochloride and possession of a firearm for the exclusive use of the Armed forces, all this while driving an ambulance through the streets of the Mexico City.

In a statement, the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) reported that a judge from District specializing in the adversarial penal system in Mexico Citybased in the South Jailsentenced the two persons in an oral hearing.

According to what was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor and in response to a complaint, Armand “H” there George “E” They were arrested in April 2020 by elements of the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM) of Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), as they traveled in a white ambulance-type van in the Morelos neighborhood, Cuauhtémoc town hall.

Moment when Panamanian entities attended the emergency in Gualaca.  / Photo @CSSPanama
Moment when Panamanian entities attended the emergency in Gualaca. / Photo @CSSPanama

As detailed by the prosecution, when officers inspected the alleged ambulance, they located over six kilos of methamphetamine hydrochloride, a firearm with its magazine, various documents and three cell phones.

After three years of legal proceedings, the Specialized Prosecutor for Organized Crime (FEMDO) obtained sufficient evidence for the judge to impose a 15-year prison sentence on Armando “H” and Jorge “E” for the aforementioned crimes.

There pursuit He presented as evidence two photographs showing the six kilos of methamphetamine hydrochloride and a firearm with its magazine.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the ambulance-type van in which Armando Hernández and Jorge Ángel Espinoza were traveling bore symbols of the Red Cross, so it is not known how long they had been trafficking this type of drug.

The Federal Departmental Police seized six kilos, 9.9 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, a short firearm with its magazine, various documents and three cell phones.  Photo: RGF
The Federal Departmental Police seized six kilos, 9.9 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, a short firearm with its magazine, various documents and three cell phones. Photo: RGF

This very particular form of drug trafficking in the capital, adds to other “ingenious” that drug traffickers have implemented during their criminal career to hide the transit of drugs, such as the one that was applying Joaquin Guzman Loeraa.k.a Chapoone of the leaders of Sinaloa Cartelwho is said to have opened a canning factory in Guadalajara, Jalisco, to market his product.

According to the newspaper El Universal, Chapowho is now serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in the United States, named his brand Jalapeños Comadre, and his operating mode was to fill each of the peppers with cocaine, then vacuum seal them and ship them to North America.

This is how Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán distributed drugs.  Photo: Twitter/@JuanCooperTV
This is how Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán distributed drugs. Photo: Twitter/@JuanCooperTV

The newspaper pointed out that this technique had been reproduced by a man who was trying to smuggle drugs into the Tehuacan, in the city. It’s about robert carlos, who on June 12, 2020, in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, arrived at the Social Rehabilitation Center with bags of fruit and vegetables for one of his relatives who was in prison. However, as the visits were suspended due to the contingency, he gave them to a guard to hand over to the inmate.

When officers inspected the bags, they found there was marijuana inside nine jalapeño peppers, so they arrested the subject and then turned him over to the departmental officer. audience.

During this time, the CDMX Citizen Security Secretariat reported on February 28 that it carried out an operation in collaboration with the security agencies of the State of Mexico where two people who were selling drugs through an application were arrested.

“According to the information collected, we learned that this organization was using a messaging application to contact its customers and coordinate distribution in the different neighborhoods of the city. To do this, they used a catalog with a wide variety of substances and various types of drugs, some of them combined with sweets and desserts, as well as controlled drugs and vapers,” the agency reported. the capital in a press release.

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