Overview
- The Judicial Discipline Tribunal’s Commission of Discipline ordered a one-year disqualification from public service for the judge assigned to a federal criminal court in Guerrero.
- Investigators found he simulated a judicial action, deployed court security resources, and sought Army and National Guard support to recover a vehicle and collect a personal debt.
- The episode traced to September 21, 2022, when he assembled an armored unit, a Suburban, and armed staff to confront residents at a private home over the dispute.
- Witness accounts indicate he contacted a general and, within minutes, three National Guard and state police trucks with about 15 officers arrived, later leaving after he verified a reported payment.
- The sanction also took into account allegations of sexual harassment and workplace bullying, and the commission’s president, Rufino H. León Tovar, warned of zero tolerance for abuses in the federal judiciary.