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Court Holds Hearing on House-Arrest Bid for Carlota 'N' in Chalco Homicide Case

The defense cites the 74-year-old's deteriorating health in a request to replace preventive detention with home confinement.

Overview

  • The closure-of-investigation hearing is being held today in the Fourth Criminal Chamber in Chalco, scheduled for 10:00 a.m. with Judge Karen Reyes Guadarrama presiding.
  • Defense attorneys seek to modify precautionary measures to domiciliary detention, citing the defendant's reported severe diabetes after seven months in custody.
  • Carlota 'N' and her two children remain jailed over the April 1 shooting at a Chalco home that left a 19-year-old and a 51-year-old dead and a 14-year-old wounded.
  • An earlier request for home confinement was denied, although Mexican criminal procedure allows judges to consider domiciliary measures for people over 70.
  • The case involves homicide charges that could be treated as qualified and carry sentences of 40–70 years or life, according to legal analysis, while separate reports of a possible cohecho count remain unconfirmed.