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This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
July 23, 2024
Marcelino Ticante Castro, El Fantasma, the alleged former security chief of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, was released from the Altiplano prison on July 2.
Luis Rodríguez Bucio, Undersecretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), announced on Tuesday that El Fantasma, who was arrested on February 9, 2013 in the Costa Rica syndicate, municipality of Culiacán, was being held for crimes against health and carrying firearms exclusive to the Army, but a judge granted him the benefit of early release.
“The reason for his release is early release for crimes against health and carrying firearms, he was notified of his release on Friday, June 28, he was given 24 hours for his release and was released on Tuesday, July 2, 24”, said the official.
He noted that Diana Montserrat Partida Arambulo, sixth judge of the Specialized District for the Execution of Sentences in Mexico City, was the one who granted him the benefit.
Rodríguez Bucio pointed out that the freedoms granted to el Fantasma and 191 other inmates detained for federal crimes, including a brother and two brothers-in-law of El Mencho, have been granted from 2018 to 2024 on weekends, when it is more difficult to prevent them from being released, given the difficulty of quickly locating investigation files that are open against them in state prosecutors’ offices.
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