Overview
- Prosecutors from FEMDO secured a ruling that the Dec. 21 arrests were legal and obtained preventive custody for the three detainees.
- The FGR accuses Mario Alberto Cárdenas Medina of possessing weapons, cartridges and magazines reserved for the armed forces, and of methamphetamine trafficking with intent to sell.
- Authorities detained him in Monterrey, Nuevo León, on avenida Lázaro Cárdenas near avenida Alfonso Reyes, according to the National Detention Registry.
- He was arrested alongside Raúl Ramírez and Kevin Alberto Castro, who face the same charges and remain in preventive custody.
- The defense requested duplicidad del término constitucional, delaying a decision on whether they will be formally bound over for trial, and the FGR has not stated when the hearing will resume.