Ten armed men of the Mexican cartel were sentenced to 141 years each Tuesday for murder and kidnapping, said the prosecutor’s office, in a case that shocked the country.
The men were arrested last September in a ranch, according to the authorities, was used as a forced recruitment center for the cartel of Jalisco New Generation, one of the most powerful criminal gangs in the country.
According to the authorities, two captives were released and a corpse when the soldiers made a descent into the western state of Jalisco following reports of gunshots, according to the authorities.
“The accused were each sentenced to 141 years and three months in prison” for a homicide chief and two kidnapping chiefs, according to a press release from the Jalisco prosecutor’s office.
The Guerreros Buscadores Collective, a group dedicated to the location of the missing parents, reported in March that hundreds of objects and clothing had been found in the Izaguirre Ranch, belonging to people who had been forced to join the cartel.
However, the government said there was no evidence that the Ranch was an “extermination camp” as the group claimed, but rather a cartel training center.
The case received significant media coverage in a country where criminal violence has left more than 120,000 people who have disappeared since the launch of the government of the war against drug cartels in 2006.
