Overview

• Juzgado Noveno de Distrito in Coyotepec, Oaxaca imposed 175-year terms on Ricardo Román Palomo Rincones, known as El Coyote, and José Heder Ruíz Balero.
• Lorenzo Reyes and Juan Francisco Robles Martínez were sentenced to 150 years in the same case.
• The convictions were for illegal deprivation of liberty in the modality of kidnapping against eight victims in Tamaulipas in 2010.
• SEDENA detained the four men in 2013 at a property in the Santa Regina neighborhood of Ciudad Victoria before they were placed under federal jurisdiction.
• FGR’s organized-crime unit FEMDO, coordinated with the FECOR office in Oaxaca, presented the evidence, extending a series of San Fernando-related prosecutions that earlier this year also produced sentences for figures including Martín Omar Estrada, El Kilo.