Overview
- Judge Daniel Marcelino Niño Jiménez, the Fourth District criminal judge in the State of Mexico, issued the auto de formal prisión after finding the FGR’s case sufficient.
- The ruling opens a process for aggravated homicide tied to the 1994 Lomas Taurinas shooting under procedures adapted for a pre‑reform investigative file.
- Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega remains held at the Altiplano maximum‑security prison after his November 8 recapture in Tijuana on a warrant issued in September.
- The FGR’s special unit presented averiguación SE/003‑BIS/95, comprising 11 volumes and 43 annexes, to support the allegation that Sánchez Ortega acted as a second shooter.
- According to federal sources, admitted evidence includes a coworker’s account of contacts between Sánchez Ortega and Mario Aburto and a jacket with lead traces indicating a firearm was fired.