“Socalj” for Borderland Beat
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| “El Ruso’s” identity was recently revealed after his ID had been misfiled by police. |
Xóchitl is the sister of Jesús Alexander Sánchez Félix and/or José Ponce Félix, “El Ruso,” leader of the Los Ruso armed faction of the Sinaloa Cartel under Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. Los Rusos control a large part of the illicit activities that occur in Mexicali and its valley.
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| Alfonso Medina Peralta “P1” |
Possible Inconsistencies in Arrest
The defense presented testimonies and evidence to discredit the arrests. They looked to prove it was not carried out as initially referred to in the information report.
Initially, Zeta Tijuana reported that they “tried to corroborate whether the arrest was made inside or outside a home, but it has not been possible to specify the details of the capture with certainty. The only thing that’s certain is that a special group of the FESC carried out the operation. At this time there is a property being guarded by authorities.”
This leads one to believe that the arrests did not take place while traveling in a vehicle given the location and accused crimes. It is however possible the arrest took place near a home, possibly unrelated, and the area was being guarded.
Columna Ocho takes this theory a step further saying that the home was raided by soldiers without provocation who proceeded to abuse, beat, and torture those detained. The federal judge who released the detainees also ordered the state to begin a process to look for possible acts of abuse committed against those involved by the uniformed officers.
The official state claim is that a man threatened the soldiers with a gun and this resulted in the arrests and seizure of weapons.
For the federal judge, there was enough testimony and evidence to discredit the version of the state officials, so the immediate release was announced and the state authorities were asked to initiate an investigation into the victims and how the events occurred, to ‘possibly’ sanction the arresting agents.
It should be noted that “El Ruso” was being protected by FGR agents Iván Doroteo Palafox and Víctor Hugo Alva Rocha in the past. The agents were his active bodyguards during an attempted capture three years ago.