Written in MEXICO he 5/5/2025 · 20:29 hs
Leopold Javier Chávez Vargas, Candidate for Federal District Judge in Mixed Matters for the State of Durangohe acknowledged that he was imprisoned for almost six years in USA by methamphetamine trafficking.
Although he admitted that he was responsible for a substance he transported on a bus in which he was traveling, he considered that it was an injustice, without giving a greater explanation.
It should be noted that the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies have already presented a challenge where they ask for the cancellation of their candidacy for Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF).
Through a video on his social networks, he recognized the fact he lived in 2015.
“I had a judicial process in USAa process that I will not deny or lie about it, transformed my life, an unfair and inhuman process. I assumed the responsibility of an illicit substance that came in a bus for which I was responsible. I lived certain abuses and certain injustices, ”he said.
“I have never sold before you as the perfect candidate, on the contrary, I am the most imperfect, but the one who most desires to get this of helping you, to help my family, to help the community, so I want you to know that I will be the judge who will listen carefully to his stories,” he said when asking for the vote of the people.
According to the Defensorxs organization, today Candidate for Federal Judge He was arrested by authorities of USA On the International Bridge Lincoln Juárez on November 13, 2015 when he was traveling aboard a passenger bus.
By X -rays, a lump was detected inside a fire extinguisher that was under the passenger seat in which he was.
For this fact, it was prosecuted for positions of conspiracy and import to traffic methamphetamine and possession of prohibited substances with the intention of distributing them.
Leopoldo Javier confessed that he hid the extinguisher “without knowing what he contained” under his seat, to transport it to Dallas, Texas.
For this fact, according to Defensorxs, he spent five years and seven months in prison since 2015.
