EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A judge has sentenced two men to 100-year prison terms each for the kidnapping and murder of three adults and a minor in 2024 in Juarez, Mexico.
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Angel Alberto M., aka “El Diablo” (The Devil), and Brandon Ivan C.B., alias “El Cuate” (The Twin), were found guilty of leading a group of men who broke into a home in the Horizontes del Sur neighborhood and held seven occupants at gunpoint on Feb. 1, 2024.
Chihuahua state prosecutors alleged the two suspects ordered the occupants bound before strangling three adults and a minor on orders from a jailed Mexicles gang leader. Two women and a teenager were taken to another location, from where they escaped and called police.
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The sentence is one of the harshest on record in a city trying to cope with the presence of two transnational criminal organizations – La Linea and the Sinaloa cartel – and several major street level drug gangs including Mexicles…