Overview
- The Fiscalía General de la República announced Sunday that a court handed Daniel Arizmendi, known as El Mochaorejas, a 50-year prison term for organized crime, illicit-asset operations, and possession of firearms reserved for the armed forces.
- The ruling also imposes a MXN 916,312.50 fine and follows new evidence and prosecutorial work by the federal special regional office to sustain the updated charges.
- Two associates, identified as Daniel V and Dulce N, were similarly condemned and remain in the Centro de Readaptación Social No. 1 in Almoloya de Juárez under the same reconstituted case.
- Arizmendi was first detained in 1998 and was convicted in 2003, but an amparo granted federal protection and forced the authorities to repeat parts of the trial before reaching this new sentence.
- The case underlines how Mexico’s amparo and retrial processes can extend prosecutions for decades and signals the FGR’s focus on obtaining long sentences for leaders of kidnapping networks that operated in the State of México and Mexico City.