Arellano Felix and an Advantageous Agreement

Lawyers for Benjamin Arellano Felix reached an agreement beneficial to his client in Federal Court Southern District of California, that he reduced the crimes he is accused in exchange for information and to comply with certain commitments.

 Whereupon the Sinaloa capo purge only 25 years sentence in United States.And even if the agreement satisfied the federal prosecutor in California, Laura Duffy, who hastened to say that the cartel ofTijuana is dismantled, the truth is that the organization is still alive. With permission of the Tijuana weekly Zeta, which includes this work in the edition that was circulated on Friday, 6 -, playing the following interview process.

MEXICO CITY (Process) .- At the end of the trial that followed in United States, Benjamin Arellano Felix benefited from the protection of the authority over the chase. Fifteen years after being named one of the most wanted criminals in the country, the Federal Court Southern District of California struck a deal with him to reduce his sentence to 25 years only in exchange for three conditions: 1) accept that indeed was the leader of the cartel of Tijuana and he committed the crimes of conspiracy and money laundering . The other offenses were eliminated, 2) give the government of United States property, goods, accounts, financial instruments and products that amount to several 100 million dollars, and 3) cooperate unconditionally with the authorities of United States for the investigation and incrimination of other members of organized crime to be arrested, investigated and prosecuted in the future.With this, the boss of one of the most powerful and deadly cartels of America in the last 25 years prevented a greater sentence, which could be 40 to 140 years, through which have come out of prison after 83. When the deadline, in 2037, Benjamin Arellano will have to be repatriated to Mexico, where the trials will be reactivated pending, including the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo and that occurred in May 1993 in the Guadalajara airport, as in the case file there is an arrest warrant against him. The California court accepted the proposal of Benjamin Arellano’s attorney, who asked for his client goodwill change information that has not been announced to be part of an investigation. The federal prosecutor in California, Laura Duffy, promptly declared that the imprisonment of Benjamin Arellano cartelTijuana was dismantled. The earrings in Mexico ’s Sinaloa drug lord will be held accountable for the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo and six people more in the Guadalajara airport in 1993, as there is an arrest warrant against him in the Second Criminal Court in the capital Guadalajara. According to the file 222/93, Benjamin is accused the prelate’s murder and six other people and the murder is attempted to the detriment of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Loera and conspiracy to the detriment of society. The injunction was never filled in because since his arrest in March 2002, Benjamin was confined to the center Federal Social Rehabilitation No. 1 Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico State, and because the judge in Guadalajara Colunga Olveda Hugo refused to prosecute. In the State of Mexico were also suspended other federal prosecutions, after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the extradition of detainedUnited States. The capture of Benjamin Arellano raised a problem because the warrant gift was on behalf of Ramon Arellano Felix Benjamin, but was corrected after the Fourth Court credited the cause 20/2001 Ramon Ramon and Benjamin Arellano Arellano were the same person. ”In the Second Court of Guadalajara, Jalisco, is in effect an order for the arrest of Benjamin Arellano by the facts relating to the Cardinal, same as it was intended to fill, but at that time was the comfortable satisfaction of the judges of which were not considered completed if a warrant is not physically made ​​available to the defendant in the prison of its jurisdiction as the lawyer Hugo Olveda considered. The criminal case of this order is 222/93, “says the weekly Zeta college. Also pending is the murder of Luis Valero Elizalde and the attempted murder of Jesus Blancornelas, both of which occurred in November 1997. According to initial investigations the Attorney General of the state, the 10 items that ambushed the co-director of Zeta, were part of the criminal cartel structure the Arellano Felix brothers, led by Benjamin and Ramon. The Attorney General Republic appealed the case but did not pursue the inquiry. A sentence givenFonseca Jorge Villegas, former prosecutor for the case especially Posadas Ocampo, said that closely followed the Sinaloa capo home for several years to complete was a warrant for the murder of the prelate. Now collaborator of the National Institute of Penal Sciences and professor at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Jalisco, Villegas Fonseca responded to questions posed by Zeta. - What do you think Benjamin Arellano’s sentence in United States? - As a former prosecutor and attorney believe is a light sentence in response to crime and danger of the subject … when compared with the sanction had been requested within theframework Mexican law. Fortunately for Benjamin and his lawyers were able to negotiate the criminal penalty … but we must recognize that ultimately there was a conviction and acquittal.’The issue of extradition scared for a long time and apparently criminals to the authorities, but finally it seems that criminals do better on the other side of the border … ’With regard to extradition as a legal instrument, the accused or prosecuted as can be seen as something positive, but I think it is situational, ie, is in response to crime, to the danger and mainly the evidence against any; may exist in Mexico crimes punished less rigorous than in United States and vice versa … Benjamin Arellano-A extradited him even with outstanding accounts (with) the Mexican justice system, what will happen these preliminary investigations and pending criminal cases? -With respect to those criminal cases pending before Mr. Arellano Felix, United States would have to repatriate to Mexico after serving his sentence there for trial here and continue the processes that may have been suspended. ’Of course with the warrant of arrest pending completion by the killing of Cardinal Posadas Ocampo and six others. You were the special prosecutor. Why from 2002 to 2011 that Arellano was arrested, never complied with the injunction? -The reason is not complied with an arrest warrant against that person is the reason that there was a jurisdictional criterion or judges in the that it was not completed an arrest warrant if you kept physically competent judge the accused in prison under its jurisdiction. -During his time as a public prosecutor specially assigned to the case Posadas Ocampo, did you contact or capo access referred to in any diligence? ’There was an interview with the character when I joined the Commission Inter-attended by representatives of the Attorney General, Government of Jalisco and Mexican Bishops Conference,’ but I can tell you simply that he simply noted that it was never present, nor their brothers. ”(He said) that really should ask who was the doctor (Jorge) and Pablo Chapa Bezanilla Carpizo, who handled the investigation since he wanted to meet with Dr. Carpizo and the latter never agreed. “ Agreements and commitments The agreement with the Southern District Court of San Diego Benjamin Arellano allowed to remove three of the five charges on which he would be tried in the U.S.: the organized crime, criminal association for distribute drugs in southern California and the criminal group for the legal purchase of weapons moving to Mexico and Colombia. The two charges which are to be sentenced for conspiracy to introduce tons of marijuana and cocaine and other drugs United States and money laundering. For the first, Benjamin will receive up to 20 years in prison, a fine of a maximum of $ 250,000 or twice the gross profits or other income from the defendant for the offense committed; a mandatory special assessment of $ 100 per count and a term of supervised release of up to three years, and delivery of all properties that represent or are derived from revenues derived directly or indirectly from racketeering activity. On the other laundering charge money, purge up to five years in prison and fined a maximum $ 250,000 or twice the gross profits or other income from the defendant for the offense, a mandatory special assessment of $ 100 per charge and a term of supervised release of up to three years, the delivery of any property that is part or is derived from the defendant received income directly or indirectly as a result of rape and delivery of all property used or intended to be used any manner or part to commit or facilitate the violation. By signing the legal document, Benjamin Arellano established a number of commitments to the United States government, including that: 1) agree to deliver a sum of money against him and in favor of States States, $ 100 million plus interest from cash and property. 2) agree to collaborate in a true and complete to the U.S. government in all matters related to his possessions and to testify truthfully in den event of future procedures. 3) Do not instruct any other person or entity to destroy, damage, dispose or transfer such goods. 4) Prior to sentencing (which will be issued on April 2) help to States States in the return and delivery of the goods and take all necessary steps to land titles are transferred without problems for the government of that country, which covers all the steps.5) Pet identify and locate the property, which implies also signing of necessary documents for the transfer of property to the United States, even though the goods are on behalf of third parties. The action applies to bank accounts, financial institutions, bonds, certificates, trusts and insurance. 6) You agree not to appeal or collateral attack declare disclaims any and all constitutional rights for his defense. 7) Do not ask for your early release. 8 ) All goods are subject to their statement when they exceed one thousand dollars in value. Similarly, Benjamin Arellano acquired other obligations. The agreement is void if not plead guilty, accept absolutely no responsibility for the charges against him, do not go to court and attempt to withdraw his guilty plea, violates an order of any court in connection with this case, appeals or attacks collaterally the sentence or conviction or performing additional criminal acts from the time of his arrest and even the time to dictate sentence. Vivo, the cartel of the Arellano Felix Fernando Sanchez Arellano, The Engineer, another member of the clan, remains at large of justice. He has been seen in Tijuana, Ensenada, Baja California Sur and in U.S. cities, according to members of the Board of Public Safety State of Baja California, to head the Governor José Guadalupe Osuna Millán and General Alfonso Duarte Mujica. Local authorities documented the intention of the Engineer to reorganize the criminal group, especially the growing presence of nominees Joaquin El Chapo Guzman in Tijuana. In addition, the Arellano family style, the nephew of Benjamin turned to familiar path: recruiting staff in the Barrio Logan in San Diego, California, and between the Mexican Mafia in prisons and streets of that city. In Tijuana is known that the struggle between 2008 and 2010 took Sanchez Arellano with Teodoro Garcia Simental, a former deputy criminal structure, by controlling the sale and traffic of drugs through this border. With the capture of his rival, The Engineer criminal regained power in the region.the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English) issued an alert for information leading to the arrest of Sanchez Arellano, so did the Attorney General of the Republic. With old fugitive-like elements Manuel Aguirre Galindo, El Caballo, finance manager from the time that Benjamin and Ramon leading the organization, and collaborator of Francisco Javier Arellano Felix, the tiger, who was arrested in August 2006 and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Attorney Duffy, the operational structure of the Tijuana cartel is still alive. The Mexican authorities know that the engineer has a lot of advice that allows you to keep the criminal organization. His aunt Enedina Arellano Felix, who played an important role in money laundering, today addressed a group of men and women working for the cartel. That contrasts with the statement of the Attorney Duffy, who said the organization is dismantled. * Director of the Tijuana weekly Zeta.