GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — One of the suspects connected to the drug debt-related murder of Jason Mendez-Ramos, whose burned body was found on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus in September 2021, will not get a new trial, a judge ruled Friday.
Pedro Santiago-Marquez is serving a life prison term. Prosecutors claimed Santiago-Marquez owed Mendez-Ramos $80,000 for a cocaine deal. Two others, Jeisaac Rodriguez-Garcia and Alexander Burgos-Mojica, were convicted of assisting in the crime.
In his post-conviction motion, Santiago-Marquez argued Rodriguez-Garcia lied to protect two others and that those two were actually responsible for the murder. Additionally, the motion contends the state didn’t turn over evidence that could support that claim…