Overview
- The Sixth Federal District Court in La Laguna, Coahuila, imposed 82 years and six months in prison plus a 1,225,910‑peso fine.
- The FGR secured convictions for organized crime in the hypothesis of crimes against health, kidnapping, and aggravated kidnapping.
- According to the case file, he belonged to Los Rojos, and he is the uncle of group leader Santiago Mazari Hernández, known as El Carrete.
- The investigation attributes to him participation in a June 2013 kidnapping in Amacuzac, Morelos.
- Detained since 2018 at CPS‑Durango, he nonetheless won the July 1, 2018 Amacuzac mayoral race on the Juntos Haremos Historia ticket and, according to reports, relayed orders to municipal officials by phone while never taking office.