Judge Prevents Extradition of Sandra Avila &Lsquo;la Reina Del Pac

This is the second time to deny the extradition of Sandra Avila on the grounds that it was tried in Mexico by the offenses for which the U.S. justice requires.

The federal government suffered another setback in its intention to extradite to the United States Sandra Ávila Beltrán, Pacific Queen , whom he identifies as a person close to the Cartel capo Sinaloa , Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. And is that a federal judge granted an injunction to said woman not to be sent to the United States , because the crimes for which he is required are the same for those who already tried in Mexico.

This is the second protection that is given toSandra Avila, last year as a collegiate court also refused extradition for the crimes he is charged in the U.S. are the same as those faced in Mexico. No clutch, Mexican authorities tried to upgrade the crime, but the judge today granted the protection of justice ruled that facts are being pampered in the country fought against him in the United States.

This decision of Judge thirteenth district in dpenal under the Federal District, Jesus Alberto Hernandez Chavez. However, the Attorney General’s Office still may challenge that ruling to be a collegiate court which ultimately resolved the matter.

United States claims to Sandra Avila to judge after conspiracy (conspiracy) for possessing 100 kilograms of cocaine in this country with intent to distribute, also to import several shipments of the alkaloid in the territory of that nation so the process began in Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida.

The facts on which the prosecution relies formal for each of those charges were made ​​to be that from January 1999 until at least March 2004, the Queen of the Pacific formed part of the Cartel of Sinaloa , an organization dedicated to the acquisition and transport of large quantities of cocaine from Colombia to U.S. soil.

One member of that organization criminal pointed to U.S. authorities, as a witness, that Avila Beltran coordinated the distribution of cocaine in Mexico and then take the country that demands for extradition.

This stems from a call intercepted on September 14, 2001 when American agents heard that Avila Beltrán and another member of the organization took a charge that the witness was quoted by the 100 pounds that Avila Beltrán had given him in Chicago , Illinois.

Furthermore, investigations of Americans say that at the end of that year Ávila Beltrán traveled from Mexico to Colombia to negotiate the shipment of nine tons of cocaine into our country with the intention of bringing to the American Union, cargo was secured on 21 December 2001 in the ship’s flag Masel Mexico, which was intercepted and recorded by the Coast Guard at sea estadunidese then be delivered to the Navy of Mexico.

The judge granted the protection of justice because Article 6 of the treaty of Mexico and the United States forbids extradition of anyone who has been subjected to the process for the same offense in the requested country, that is, no one can be tried twice for the same offense.