Guadalajara, Jal. They dictate preventive detention to the Emecist mayor of Teuchitlán, José Ascension Murguía Santiago, for the crimes of organized crime and forced disappearance of persons during the hearing held in the Third Federal Criminal Oral Court, based in the Prison of Puente Grande, in which he was accused of receiving 70 thousand pesos monthly for collaborating with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
During the diligence, which lasted practically all Sunday, the Attorney General’s Office read testimonies of alleged victims recruited to force that indicate that not only knew about the Izaguirre Rancho, located in Teuchitlán, but actively participated in the illicit events that were committed there.
The lawyers of Murguía Santiago asked the judge for a duplicity of the constitutional term for 144 hours before his imputation was decided, after the hearing that began at nine in the morning and had several reins.
The municipal president of Teuchitlán was captured on Saturday afternoon by the FGR and transferred to Mexico City where he was returned to Jalisco at dawn on Sunday to initiate his judicial process.
“Chon”, as both the current governor Pablo Lemus and the previous
However, the FGR explained in the diligence that Jalisco prosecution did not complete it, so he decided to execute it through the criminal investigation agency without notifying local authorities and stealthily.
In the public part of the audience, the federal agency read testimonies of alleged victims of forced recruitment in which there are coincidences that would involve it as an accomplice of the CJNG, a group attributed to the creation of those recruitment and training centers.
In the afternoon, at the request of the FGR, the presence of media or citizens in general was avoided to “protect witnesses.”
One of the testimonies collected and read by the FGR said he was forced to reopen a clandestine pit in the ranch that “was already prepared for the thermal exposure of bodies” after having thrown in it dismembered corpses. “
He explained that Chon Murguía arrived with “a black and large bag” within which there were organs of several people – he did not specify how many were also thrown into the fire.
In another testimony read by the FGR, it is pointed out that the mayor went to Rancho Izaguirre and sometimes met with the person in charge of that place, the “Commander” Lastra (José Gregorio Lastra, arrested in Cuajimalpa on March 22 by the National Guard), or with the regional head of the CJNG in the Valles or 90.
José Ascención Murguía, who since 2021 is the mayor of Teuchitlán and in 2024 he re -elected, according to the accusations he received 70 thousand pesos per month for his collaboration, cash that some occasions was delivered to him at a point located between San Marcos and Etzatlán, municipalities surrounded to Teuchitlán and that he knew very well the Rancho La Vega, also of the CJNG, located 8 kilometers. Izaguirre estate.
The FGR read indications that the mayor allocated municipal police and weapons to look for people who escaped from the ranches or to bring new victims.
In addition, he agreed to see those in charge of the ranches through a non -intelligent cell phone that they called “peanut” and that on occasion the munícipe, within the Izaguirre property, interviewed the Lastra and the toad and spoke openly, in front of several of the recruited by force, about kidnapping more people.
“After these dogs are not going to live to tell it,” Chon allegedly told their two interlocutors, which would have caused mocking laughs of the three.
